Entries for Trials (14)
Relive our 2025 Ball For Fall garden mum trials event in The Gardens at Ball through this virtual tour of the grounds. ...
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Plan Your Visit to Customer Days at The Gardens at Ball
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Come find out what’s new at this year’s Ball Seed Customer Days! Be the first to see new plant introductions for 2026 and find your next best seller. Open only to the trade, you’ll get ...
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Trials Wrap-Up: CAST 2025
Jaime Kedrowski
This year’s California Spring Trials were filled with anticipation for the growing season. With a forecast that worked out beautifully for all those who traveled to the California coast, attendees experienced new product introductions up ...
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CAST 2025: We Are Here for You
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Our team is excited to tour the California coast for you! From March 26-29, 2025, the California Spring Trials (CAST 2025) will once again welcome visitors throughout these coastal trials ...
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2024 Classic City Awards from UGA Trial Gardens
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The University of Georgia Trial Garden Classic City Awards have been awarded for 2024. The UGA winners include two Ball Seed Exclusives from Ball FloraPlant and one from Darwin Perennials. These awards are reserved for ...
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Award Winners Include Ball Seed at UGA Trial Gardens
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The University of Georgia has announced this year’s UGA Plants of Distinction. This collection represents the plants in different categories that have received the best ratings through 100-degree temps, as well as long periods of ...
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Plant Trial Award Winners for 2023
Jeff Gibson
Have you ever been to a plant trial? If not, you should really think about it. Here’s why: University plant trials are very important to plant breeding companies, wholesale growers and garden retailers. They’re able ...
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Ball Mums New Varieties for 2024 (Video)
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New for Ball Mums from Ball Seed is a wonderful assortment of colors, even habits and lots of blooms. From the 2023 garden mum trial site at Lou Davino Greenhouses in New Jersey, Ball Seed ...
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Ball Seed Exclusives Among UGA Classic City Award Winners
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The University of Georgia announced its Classic City Award Winners for 2023. This collection represents the plants in different categories that have received the best ratings throughout the growing season from June through September 2023 ...
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Where to Go For the Best Plant Trials
Jeff Gibson
This summer, we encourage you to get out and get travelling. Travel to trials! Go to flower trials, to field trials, to garden and container trials. Here at Ball Seed, we send new and existing ...
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Ball Ingenuity and Ball FloraPlant Varieties Recognized at Penn State Trials
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Ball Seed exclusive products from Ball Ingenuity and Ball FloraPlant were recognized with awards from Penn State University Flower Trials this summer. Varieties from each of these breeding companies received a number of awards after thorough ...
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Rex Begonia Jurassic Jr. Wins UGA Classic City Award
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Rex Begonia Jurassic Jr.™ Fire Spike has been honored with a 2022 Classic City Award from the University of Georgia. It was an impressive series that the judges could not stop talking about. ...
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Winners at Colorado State Best of the Best
Jeff Gibson
Congratulations to the “Best Of” Winners at Colorado State University! Flower trials took place on Aug. 9 and Sept. 8, 2022, in Fort Collins with record-breaking ...
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The Ohio State University Field Trials Recap 2021
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Congratulations to two Ball Seed exclusives for earning top marks at the 2021 Ohio State University Field Trials. Rex Begonia Jurassic Megalo™ Reptile (from Ball Ingenuity) and Petunia ColorRush™ Merlot Star Improved ...
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