2022 California Spring Trials preview: What to expect at the Horticultural Ball

This is a series of single propagation begonias that look great on the retail bench and stunning in hanging baskets and mixed containers. Hula is quick to fill in landscaped beds, creating a blanket of flowers with high-impact color – launched with two-tone red, blush, pink and red white.

White Gold is a new two-tone addition to this established calibrachoa series, MiniFamous Uno. It has light white flowers with golden centers, which allows it to pair well with other MiniFamous Uno strains. Its moderately compact habit makes it an ideal choice for baskets.

the C. plumosa The Floriosa series is available in several colors. They shine from April as a cheerful spring bloomer through October as a rewarding fall decorating scheme. If it ends before the end of May, Floriosa will need black fabric – an interesting extension for this plant.

This micro coleus has a unique foliage pattern with a perfect habit for small pot programs and decorative container mixes. It’s versatile for full sun and shade with stunning color and high impact.

This is the first hanging basket type dianthus on the market. ‘Falling in Love Rosie’ quickly fills its containers and features beautiful cascading bright pink flowers. It offers repeat blooming from spring through summer for long-lasting color flow.

This is the compact version of the popular Echinacea Sombrero series. The sturdy plants are covered in bright, richly colored blooms. For spring 2023, Hot Pink joins the team and is well matched in habit, timing and winter hardiness. The hardiness zone is 4b to 9b.

This new series of double Impatiens with beautiful pink flowers is highly resistant to Impatiens downy mildew. They can fill durable hanging baskets for shady, low-light gardens. Glimmer is launching Spring 2023 in seven colors only through Ball Seed.

Solarscape is an interspecific impatiens grown from seed that provides vibrant color in landscapes and containers in full sun. It works like vegetative varieties with seed flexibility. Greenhouses that supply the professional landscape market will appreciate this option for non-branding needs. It comes in four colors plus an XL variety.

Sky peppers are small, sweet peppers perfect for hanging baskets and 6-7 inch pots. The compact plants produce lots of fleshy fruits that ripen from green to bright (red, orange and yellow varieties are available). Plant three plants in one pot for a fuller look.

Aleppo peppers have a sweet taste with a nice hint of heat in the back. This pepper with very thin skin and walls comes from Syria and Turkey and is mainly used dried or crushed. The taste is slightly smoky, salty, sweet and warming.

This new variety has a controlled habit, early flowering and early finishing, making it easier to grow Perovskia for the consumer and landscape market. Bluesette works well in the front of the landscape, in a single high-end patio container, or as a mixed combo. It produces a pleasant fragrance and attracts bees and butterflies. Bluesette’s hardiness zone is 4a to 9a.

The Sky Petunia family expands in Spring 2023 with Strawberry Sky, a berry shade dappled with the popular sky pattern. The Headliner series is a mounding series of medium vigor with early flowering and quick finishing.

SureShot is a new grower-friendly petunia series that has a seven-day bloom time and a matching habit, so all colors can ship to retail at the same time. All varieties mix well to create a range of color combinations. SureShot is available in six colors. It is ideal for all sizes of pots and hanging baskets.

Add incredible color to your shading scheme with this exciting gold variegated polemonium (Jacob’s Ladder). Blue-violet flowers are a bonus from late spring through the summer months. Golden Feathers makes an excellent accent plant in rock gardens, landscapes, or small containers. Its hardiness zone is 5b to 9a.

Goldblitz is a natural day length growth solution. This first-year flowering perennial offers a more economical entry option for growers of natural day length, as the clods do not require special treatment to achieve the same quality as R. ‘Goldsturm’. The hardiness zone for Goldblitz is 3a to 9b.

This series of eye-catching summer-blooming perennials features masses of blooms in modern, eye-catching colors. The semi-double flowers grow beautifully in large containers for display windows or make an excellent cut flower for the garden.

Enhance your garden with heirloom tomato flavor and modern hybrid tomato performance. Blushing Star is an early maturing, sweet and savory pink steak. Its fruit has higher yield potential and fewer defects than most heirlooms. It also offers resistance to downy mildew and septoria leaf spot diseases.

Perfect for dipping, Sun Dipper’s elongated fruit can be held between your fingers for easy use with dips and sauces. The orange fruit looks great on a vegetable platter and tastes delicious. The durable plant has a high resistance to soil diseases. Differentiate your vegetable program with this gourmet option.

This is a fiery red verbena with a creeping, spreading habit – a garden sight, like lava oozing onto the ground. It is sure to attract attention. Lascar is early flowering and wide branching. It grows beautifully in hanging baskets and in combos too.

This veronica offers a high number of flowers on a dense, upright habit and enjoys continuous flowering. Its durability ensures plants grow and ship without breakage for more salable plants. Skyward is pollinator friendly and resistant to powdery mildew for the success of perennial gardeners. It is available in pink and blue and has a hardiness zone of 4b to 9a.