2021 Blogs

At this year's Lucas Greenhouse Poinsettia Trials during week 48, the Selecta One Poinsettias team were on-site to evaluate new plants and share their insights on best-performing and best-timed varieties. Territory Manager James Doukas in the video b...

Inspire and thrill your garden center and landscape clients with our new brochure!

Even more to brag about for Bee’s Knees Petunia, featuring breeding from Ball FloraPlant. The highest honors were given to this outstanding yellow vegetative petunia with a 2022 All-America Selections Gold Medal Award.

What better way to welcome the holiday season but with a poinsettia video.

Exciting news for Ball Ingenuity! The Rex Begonia Jurassic™ collection has recently been named a “Classic City Award” winner from the University of Georgia. Winners are chosen by their outstanding performance in UGA’s Southeastern regional trials. Ra...

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...

Our Ball Seed 2021 Customer Days event are over, but The Gardens at Ball are still open for visitors! If you'd like to tour our stunning grounds again, feel free to make an appointment by calling our main switchboard at 630-231-3600. We're open durin...

Are you visiting West Chicago next week? There’s still time to register for one of our three open days to see The Gardens at Bal. This week, we wrap up our blog showcase of new plants on display in our trial gardens with a closer look at our top-qual...

Ball Ingenuity is thrilled to introduce four new additions to its Jurassic collection of Rex Begonias, meeting the needs of customers in four different sizes. The Jurassic lineup for 2021 now includes (from largest to smallest) the Jurassic Megalo, J...

The Kieft Seed perennials team will showcase their latest introductions in The Gardens at Ball. Look for perennial plantings of these newly developed plants when you visit.

What’s the latest from Selecta One? Innovative & New for 2022! This latest catalog features the hottest varieties of annuals, perennials, potted plants, herbs and Trixi® combos. Let’s get started with some highlights:

Find everything you’re looking for in Vegetative and Seed products inside the pages of the Ball Seed New Varieties 2022 Brochure. There are several categories to browse from and build successful programs for your customers: Annuals, Perennials, Potte...

PanAmeircan Seed is excited to share its 2022 launches. New from PanAmerican Seed is Spreading Petunia E3 Easy Wave™, Impatients Beacon® Rose plus new combo ideas, and the HandPicked Vegetables Collection featuring Candy Cane Chocolate Cherry Pepper ...

Our Zone 5 overwintered trials in West Chicago, Ill., are bursting with perennials, and we can’t wait for you to see them! Let’s take a closer look at a few new product highlights from Darwin Perennials for the 2022 season.

The Burpee team is thrilled to share their 2022 lineup in advance of Ball Seed Customer Days. Let’s dive into three new products you'll see on-site in West Chicago this Summer: Patio Delight Tomato, Demon Red Hot Pepper and Mexican Sour Gherkin Cucum...

Get ready for more beautiful new additions to the Selecta One family include Verbena Beats, Dahlia Dahlita and Petunia Headliner Enchanted Sky. All starring this summer in The Gardens at Ball in West Chicago, Ill.

Mark your calendars: We're hosting guests in The Gardens at Ball at the end of July for our Ball Seed Customer Days (July 28-30). We can't wait to welcome you back!

In the latest catalog from Ball FloraPlant, the team calls out its newest varieties and improvements, but more than that they've set their sights on growing better together in 2022. Providing Ball Seed customers with innovative product solutions, rel...

Ball Seed is proud of its partnership with Philips Signify Lighting. Their wide range of GreenPower LED lighting supports your plant production and helps you send toned, beautiful product to your customers.

This week, Ball Publishing launches the inaugural edition of its Tech On Demand newsletter. Penned by Bill Calkins, it will be a timely and helpful resource geared for greenhouse professionals who focus on the day-to-day production of plants.

We’re living in an age of millions of new gardeners, created out of 2020’s stay-at-home guidelines, where a fresh perspective was given to outdoor living spaces and new hobbies were cultivated with more time on our hands. All indicators point to Spri...

Selecta One announces the release of its 2021 Poinsettia catalog – a 45-page resource filled not only with exciting new products, it has production tips from experts providing solutions to cover all your growing needs.

The ProGreen EXPO is the only green industry conference in the Rocky Mountain Region of its kind.

The eigth annual iLandscape show will be hosted virtually this year, Feb. 3-4, 2021. The Illinois + Wisconsin Landscape Show is known for its creativity and fun atmosphere and is THE show for today's regional landscape professional. iLandscape is own...

The 2021 Tropical Plant International Expo will be a virtual trade show and educational program for attendees interested in the highly popular indoor plant and tropical category. Connect with dozens of industry companies and attend informational sess...