Jeff Gibson Blogs

Find top-performing plants and services for garden centers and landscape clients with our latest brochure. The 2025 edition of the combined Thrive and Flourish brochure provides expert plant advice to landscape growers and garden center businesses.

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...

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.

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...

Your pro landscaper clients demand a lot – and you can deliver the biggest bang for their buck when you stock up on these long-lived varieties that fill in fast, look better and last longer.

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

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...