Trials Blogs

Join us and explore what’s next for Fall. Registration is now available to compare the latest mum varieties, discover standout performers and get inspired for your next Fall program.

Join us at Customer Days 2026 to explore what’s possible for the 2027 growing season and beyond. With more than 145,000 plants on display, access to leading plant breeders, and expert-led educational sessions, the Gardens at Ball serve as a living re...

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 a first-hand look at the flowers on display to compare, plan and ...

This year’s California Spring Trials were filled with anticipation for the growing season.

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 with plant breeders showing off their latest genetics.

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.

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 inundating rain foll...

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 to see how new and existing plants...

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 sales rep Gene Stickley shared several stand-out garden mum i...

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 and are stil...

Here at Ball Seed, we send new and existing annual and perennial items every year to 20 public gardens and/or universities. We recommend that our sales reps, as well as growers go and visit the trials in their areas of North America.

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 evaluati...

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.

Flower trials took place on Aug. 9 and Sept. 8, 2022, in Fort Collins with record-breaking warm temperatures still lingering earlier in the month. Ball received many “Best Of” by class distinctions for the 2022 season. Read the trials managers’ feedb...

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 (from Ball FloraPlant) were recog...