Consumer Blogs

The garden industry is abuzz with all the ways Wave® Petunias from PanAmerican Seed® is celebrating its milestone anniversary of 30 years in 2025. Adding to the excitement, at this year’s California Spring Trials the Wave brand announced it has forme...

Let’s celebrate the Color of the Year: Peach Fuzz. 2024 rings in the new year with a color described as “a cozy peach hue softly nestled between pink and orange,” according to PANTONE®, the global authority on color trends.

It’s that time again… The announcement of PANTONE® Color of the Year! And the accolades go to PANTONE17-3938 Very Peri.

Garden centers are in the perfect position to demonstrate how adding water-wise plants to the garden can make a big impact. Capitalize on consumer concern about conserving water with informative displays and fun, family-oriented promotions showcasing...

Inspire shoppers to create a backyard oasis for helpful bugs, bees and birds. Attracting pollinators creates a win-win situation for you, your customers and the environment.

Show your customers how a carefully planned sensory garden can be used for therapy, relaxation and to create an overall sense of well-being. With nature, there is much more than meets the eye – especially with sensory gardens. They offer a way to eng...

Ball Seed is looking forward to supplying your business with a new way to extend your selling season with vegetables. Have you checked out the Kitchen Minis collection yet? We have seed and inputs ready in WebTrack to make this program available to y...

This week the Pantone Color Institute™ selected as the Color of the Year two colors – a yellow and a gray. The yellow is reminiscent of sunflowers, yellow mums, daffodils, marigolds and many other flowers. The gray could be the container used, pebble...

Finding silver-linings during the Covid-19 pandemic has been very beneficial for lifting my spirits. Fortunately, I have found several silver linings both personally and professionally.

No doubt this season has seen an increase in NEW gardeners across North America: They've shopped online for mail-order seed; they've descended en masse to retail garden centers. Now the key is to make them successful so that they're bitten by the "pl...

We shared earlier this month how the rising interest in gardening is making its way across North America during shelter-in-place.

The Brookwood Community and The Brookwood Gardens in Brookshire, Texas, is taking part in the "You've Been Bloomed!" campaign to bring flowers to neighbors and brighten their isolated days.

With stay-at-home orders affecting our daily lives – both personal and professional – it's no wonder many people are turning to gardening and plants to relieve stress.