Content Creators
Want to see Proven Winners in action in the homes and gardens of people near you? Here's a snapshot of some of our biggest fans, our brand ambassadors, who are growing Proven Winners annuals, perennials, shrubs and houseplants and sharing their experiences on their socials. Tap the regional links above or scan the list below to find one nearby or who shares similar passions as you.
Social media channels: Instagram & YouTube USDA Growing Zone: 6a in the ecoregion of Chicago Lake Plain Favorite Garden Centers:
Favorite Plant: Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum® Petunia Topics:
About: True urban farmer - container gardening EVERYTHING on a rooftop deck in the city. Bethany's contribution to the migratory highway is up in the air where the birds and butterflies can find it. Her innovation not only provides habitat but feeds her family from rooftop container gardening in Chicago. She also fills her home with beautiful houseplants and a gardener's library. |
Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok & YouTube USDA Growing Zone: 6a in the ecoregion of the central plains Favorite Garden Centers:
Favorite Plant: Limelight Prime® Panicle Hydrangea Topics:
About: Erin offers hands-on gardening information and inspiration for real-life gardeners. With a love of container planting as well as creative garden design, she shares fact-based gardening tips along with successes—and failures—in her southeastern Wisconsin garden. |
Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest & YouTube USDA Growing Zone: 6a in the ecoregion of the Interior River Plains Favorite Garden Centers:
Favorite Plant: Shadowland® 'Echo the Sun' Hosta Topics:
About: Growing food and flowers everywhere with gardening tips for all levels of gardening. |
Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok & YouTube Favorite Plant: Mysteria® Spotsylvania™ Thai Constellation Topics:
About: Samantha is the visionary behind House + Plant. Her social media community is focused on sharing her trials and triumphs with other houseplant enthusiasts. Using her green thumb and a passion for nurturing indoor foliage, she is cultivating a thriving online community where plant lovers tune in for tips and care advice. It is a community built to share the joy of watching their green companions flourish. |
Bethany Bey 
Erin Schanen 
Heather Blackmore 
Samantha Hermann
Matthew Ingram Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram & YouTube USDA Growing Zone: 6 Favorite Garden Centers:
Favorite Plants: Supertunia® Bordeaux™ Petunia, 'Serendipity' Allium, Topics:
About: Matthew has a passion for designing easy to care for gardens with resilient shrubs and perennials and teaching others how to do the same. He recently moved to a new 5 acre property in Southwest, Ohio and is spending his time cultivating an entirely brand new garden from the ground up. |
Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok & YouTube USDA Growing Zone: 8a Favorite Plant: ColorBlaze® Wicked Witch™ Coleus Topics:
About: Creekside Nursery, Inc. is a family owned and operated business located on 8.5 acres of serene countryside just outside of Dallas, NC. Creekside is a Proven Winners' Certified Garden Center and proudly offers the largest selection of Proven Winners' plants in the region. We specialize in meeting people wherever they are in their gardening journey, whether you have a self-proclaimed black thumb or have been gardening for many years. It is our mission to help you grow, bloom, and thrive both in your garden and in life! |
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Perla Sofía Curbelo-Santiago Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest & YouTube USDA Growing Zone: 11a - 13b in the ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests Favorite Garden Centers:
Favorite Plant: Igneous™ Timeless Tides™ Chinese Evergreen Topics:
About: A Certified Horticulture Therapist, gardener, birdfeeder, author, and professional communicator. Perla is from Puerto Rico and is the founder of Agrochic.com. Agrochic is a gardening lifestyle platform in Spanish that promotes gardening for wellness. My newest book is available in English or Spanish - ¡Verdura! Living a Garden Life (January 2024) from Cool Springs Press. Perla has a degree in Psychology and a master´s degree in Public Relations. She is also certified in Horticulture Therapy from the Chicago Botanic Garden. She loves helping professionals learn how to incorporate an effective garden break into their daily lives. |
Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram & YouTube USDA Growing Zones: 7b/8a in the ecoregion of the Southern Outer Piedmont Favorite Garden Centers:
Favorite Plants: Supertunia® Petunia and ColorBlaze® Coleus Topics:
About: Follow the adventures of newlyweds gardening in Charlotte, NC. Cottage gardening in different environments such as berms and border gardening. |
Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok & YouTube USDA Growing Zone: 8 Favorite Garden Centers:
Favorite Plant: Rainbow Rhythm® 'Nosferatu' Hemerocallis hybrid Topics:
About: Following in the footsteps of iconic Black plant scientists like George Washington Carver and Percy Julian is no small feat, but Derek Haynes—known as The Chocolate Botanist—is uniquely positioned to lead the charge. Originally recognized as the Crazy Botanist, Derek rebranded to honor his chocolate complexion and celebrate his Black identity, infusing his work with a powerful narrative of cultural pride and scientific rigor. As a Black scientist and communicator, he seamlessly weaves together botany, ethnobotany, and humor, creating a relatable bridge between traditional botanical wisdom and modern science. |
Jenny Simpson 
Tyler & Brian
Derek Areson Haynes
Norman Winter Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram & Pinterest USDA Growing Zones: 8a/8b- 9 in the ecoregion of the Southern Outer Piedmont Favorite Garden Centers:
Favorite Plant: Superbena® Verbena Topics:
About: Norman Winter is a southern gardening specialist who has been evaluating plants in Texas, Mississippi, and Coastal Georgia gardens for the last three decades. He has recently retired as the Director of the University of Georgia’s Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens in Savannah and was previously an extension horticulturist and coordinator for the Mississippi Medallion Award trial program. |
Stacy Ling  @bricksnblooms New Jersey Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok & YouTube USDA Growing Zones: 6b in the ecoregion of the Northeastern Coastal Zone Favorite Garden Centers:
Favorite Plants: Supertunia Vista® Bubblegum® Petunia, Topics:
About: Stacy Ling is a trained master gardener and author of The Bricks ’n Blooms Guide to a Beautiful and Easy Care Flower Garden and The Bricks 'n Blooms Beautiful and Easy-Care Flower Planner. Passionate about helping beginners find their inner green thumb, she shares her expertise on her popular blog, Bricks ’n Blooms. Stacy inspires readers to create stunning, low-maintenance gardens filled with beautiful plants and flowers, including her favorites from Proven Winners. With over 25 years of gardening experience in zone 6b New Jersey, Stacy blends romantic blooms with rustic charm to create a home with garden style in her 1850 farmhouse. Let Stacy guide you in creating your own beautiful and easy-care garden. |
Social media channels: Instagram & YouTube USDA Growing Zone: 6a in the ecoregion of the Northeastern Coastal Zone Favorite Garden Centers:
Favorite Plants: Hydrangeas Topics:
About: Meet Eric and Christopher from @GrowForMeGardening. They are experts in gardening in Zone 5b in Upstate New York. Their contemporary cottage garden aesthetic and stunning collection of over 130 hydrangeas and 50 roses make them masters in the art of starting a new garden from the ground up. Their work is beautifully documented and shared on multiple social channels with a huge following and fan base. |
Social media channels: Facebook, Website USDA Growing Zone: 5b in the ecoregion of the Northeastern Coastal Zone Favorite Garden Centers:
Favorites Plants: 'Bobo' and 'Tuff Stuff'; Heuchera DOLCE 'Wildberry' and 'Wild Rose Topics:
About: Kerry Ann Mendez has over 25 years of professional and personal garden experience with special interest in low-maintenance gardening. Kerry Ann is a garden author and lecturer who incorporates humor, abundant excitement, knowledge, and above all a passion for low-maintenance garden and landscape design. |
Charlie Nardozzi Social media channels: YouTube: Facebook, Instagram & YouTube USDA Growing Zone: 5 Favorite Plant: Angelface® Angelonia Favorite Garden Centers:
What's Up North articles on provenwinners.com. |
Steph Ferreira Social media channels: Instagram & YouTube USDA Growing Zone: 6b/7a Favorites Plant: Dogwoods & Redbuds Favorite Garden Centers:
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About: Proven Winners® is an integral part of my content where I'm creating educational plant videos where I am highlighting Proven Winners plants, shrubs etc at local nurseries and garden centers. I have been gardening in my zone 6b/7a in Massachusetts for 12 years now. Over a whole decade!! I've learned lots along the way and want to share this with you! My goal is always to grow my garden while spending as little money as possible. I will of course splurge on the occasional wish list plant, or special find, but mostly I try to do my best to grow my landscape affordably. I have a background in Finance, and budgets are my jam. In the garden its no different! I love to take you shopping as well! Its a great way to get a garden fix by exploring all the new arrivals at the local garden center. Come along and subscribe to my channel and lets learn and inspire each other! If you watch a video, and enjoy it, please don't forget to hit the like button as a thank you, and it helps my channel grow. |
Eric Nelson and Christopher Femi 
Kerry Ann Mendez 
Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok & YouTube USDA Growing Zone: 6 Favorites Plant: Echinacea Favorite Garden Centers:
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About: Laura LeBoutillier is an internet sensation. And in the gardening world, that's saying something! In the five years since she and her videographer/husband Aaron started making Garden Answer advice videos, Laura has collected a social media following of more than 5 million people. |
Social media channels: Instagram, Pinterest & YouTube USDA Growing Zones: 6b/7a in the ecoregion of the Snake River Plain Favorite Plant: Hydrangeas all day - every day Favorite Garden Center:
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About: Skye is Passionate about workshops and sharing gardening chores in a traditional Idaho garden.This is a gardener who shares all her wins and isn’t afraid to share her trials in the garden. Her can-do, no-quit attitude inspires 1000’s of fans to get up and get growing. |
Laura & Aaron 
Skye Hamilton
 Morgan Amos Social media channels: Instagram & Pinterest USDA Growing Zones: 5a Favorite Plant: Bluestar Amsonia Laguna® Blue Lobelia Favorite Garden Center:
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About: I'm a backyard gardener, hobby kitchener, do-it-yourselfer. I love being out in nature, and especially the wild birds who visit my backyard. I love all things green and drinking copious amounts of coffee, especially paired together! Can you say iced coffee and garden therapy?! Yes please!!!! My garden used to grow in a very hot and arid town in central California, but a few years ago, I traded the suburbs in for rural Wyoming. Now I live out my days, with one very handsome Hunter. When we're not exploring the surrounding forest, chasing |
Sharon Wallish Murphy Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram & YouTube Canadian Growing Zones: 3 and 4 Favorite Plant: Peonies Favorite Garden Center:
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About: As a third-generation grower, Sharon Wallish Murphy's passion and expertise lie in crafting practical content specific to cool weather growing zones to equip gardeners to thrive in their garden spaces, regardless of their skill set. She also delights in sharing the joy of gardening with school-aged children, using her children’s book The Perfect Place for Plants as the inspiration for in-school field trips. Check out my Cold + Bold Canada articles on provenwinners.com. |
Social media channels: Facebook, Instagram & TikTok USDA Growing Zones: 9b in the ecoregion of Mediterranean California Favorite Plant: Supertunia Vista Bubblegum Favorite Garden Centers:
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About: Janey is a trained master gardener in California and shares her gardening adventures in very large gardens and containers. Follow along as she sets up magnificent displays in her yard in her California home. Her transparency in her design and maintenance strategy is inspirational and aspirational. Check out my Best for the West articles on provenwinners.com. |
Janey Santos
