Park Seed Garden Journal

To say that this is a busy time at Park Seed would be the understatement of the century.  We’re in the midst of changing our product lines over to the Fall Planting lineup.  The new catalogs are shaping up, which means page mockups spread all over the building (I’ve actually got a copy of the Fall Planting 2008 catalog on my desk now: it’s beautiful!).  There’s new webpages to be designed, copy to be written, and, of course, we’re always getting new images together.  It’s a really exciting time to be here.  The best part, of course, is getting to know the new plants.  Our horticulturists did a great job this year, and I think that this fall’s lineup really is the best we’ve ever had.  We’ve really expanded our fall offering of spring-blooming bulbs this year, but that’s nowhere near to all of the new plants we’ve got this year (check out the amazing new ‘Superpoppy;’ it’s better than any poppy I’ve ever seen).

We’re also gearing up for our single biggest day of the year: Flower Day!  Each year we invite all of you to come to our home here at Park Seed so we can show you around.  This day is the heart of the South Carolina Festival of Flowers, and, judging from the way our Trial Gardens look, it may be the best one ever.  Come on down to beautiful Greenwood, South Carolina to visit us; it’s a lot of fun to get shown around our killer gardens by some of the best horticulturists in the business (I’ve been coming since I was a kid).

Maybe the best thing of all this year, we’re ecstatic to again welcome Paul James of HGTV’s Gardening by the Yard.  He’s one of the funniest people on TV (much less gardening television), as well as an amazingly knowledgeable gardener.  The last time he was here for Flower Day we all called him "the Pied Piper" because of the way that all of our other visitors followed him around in huge packs.  He’ll be doing a couple of Q&A sessions this year, as well as signing autographs.