SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
NewGen® Boxwood/Saunders Genetics and Saunders Brothers are excited to announce our 2026 partnership with the Proven Winners® ColorChoice® line of Spring Meadow Nursery, one of the largest and best-known woody plant liner providers in North America.
This strategic partnership connects our top-performing NewGen Boxwood cultivars and future introductions with the incredible name recognition and marketing resources of Proven Winners ColorChoice, focused on the end consumers of our plants: home gardeners and landscape professionals. And NewGen/Saunders Genetics will get to concentrate on what we do best – breeding, trialing, and selecting beautiful, problem-solving boxwood, plus supporting industry education and cutting-edge research.
The partnership will ensure seamless access to NewGen Boxwood cultivars through the existing network of Spring Meadow Nursery growers as well as current NewGen licensed growers. In the spring of 2026, you will begin to see some of our wonderful plants in the Proven Winners® ColorChoice® Deer Proof white pots. You’ll also see plenty of NewGen’s familiar green pots as boxwood has a comparatively long production cycle. But regardless of pot, they’re the same plants you’ve come to depend on from the same quality growers and retailers.
For more information, including Questions and Answers for growers, visit https://www.provenwinnerscolorchoice.com/newgen-boxwood-partnership/
A partnership in the making at Spring Meadow Nursery!
Left to right:
Robert Saunders, CEO, Saunders Brothers; Holly Scoggins, Program Manager, NewGen; Bennett Saunders, General Manager, Saunders Genetics. To the right, the Spring Meadow team involved: Dale Deppe, President; Megan Mathey, Plant Breeding Manager; Jeremy Deppe, General Manager; Tim Wood, Product Development; Judson LeCompte, Product Development Manager; and Stacey Hirvela, Marketing Manager.