| OUR 2007 AARS Winner The Rainbow Knock Out® Rose
 What is an AARS Winner?
A winning rose embodies all of the characteristics you desire in a garden plant. Every AARS winning rose completes an extensive two-year trial program where it's judged on everything from disease resistance to flower production, to color and fragrance. This sophisticated evaluation process guarantees that only the best roses make it into your garden.
AARS has been testing roses since 1938. Over the years, the program has evolved into a sophisticated process. A network of Official Test Gardens, within select Public Gardens throughout the United States test the potential AARS winning roses. These gardens, which represent a wide range of climates, maintain standards specified by AARS to ensure that roses undergoing testing receive the care normally provided by an average - not necessarily expert - home gardener. Rose specimens are submitted to the gardens each year from rose producers, such as Star® Roses. The specimens are assigned an official AARS number and undergo a two-year trial program. A judge - usually a college horticulture professor or supervisor of a large public garden - is assigned to evaluate each garden. During the evaluation period, roses are graded by a prescribed numerical scoring system on vigor, growth habit, disease resistance, foliage, flower production, bud and flower form, opening and finishing color, fragrance, stem and overall value. This complex scoring system has been developed to answer consumer demand for beautiful, easy-to-grow roses. The end result is a new crop of AARS winning roses each year.
We have introduced hundreds of roses, many have won the prestigious AARS award.
To find all the AARS Winners, as well as the winners that we have introduced click on the listing above.
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