Saturday, June 27, 2009
Park Seed Company
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Flower Day at Park Seed Company is the heart of the South Carolina Festival of Flowers. It is the one day each year that Park Seed Company’s professional horticulturists provide guided tours of their famous 9-acre Trial Gardens. Bring the entire family — and a camera — to experience first-hand more than 2,000 varieties of gorgeous plants at their peak!
Park Seed is also home and headquarters to Wayside Gardens, America’s premier source for the newest, most unusual, and hardest-to-find plants from around the world. Both companies are located here in Greenwood, South Carolina, and are leaders in the mail-order gardening business.
The famous Trial Gardens allow Park Seed and Wayside Gardens’ renowned research horticulturalists to compare new flower and vegetable varieties with old-time favorites and proven performers. Only the best are selected and featured in upcoming catalogs. The Trial Gardens present several special-focus areas in lovely landscape settings, including theme gardens, a container garden display, a Rose garden, and the prestigious All-America Selections trials.
The Park Seed Company has been providing innovative, top-quality gardening products to generations of American gardeners since 1868. Joined in 1975, Park Seed (www.parkseed.com) and Wayside Gardens (www.waysidegardens.com) strive to bring the best gardening products to gardeners across the country.
For additional information, please call 800-622-1012.
2009 Flower Day Schedule
| 8:00am - 5:00pm | Garden Center opens, Trial Gardens open for self-guided tours and photography |
| 8:00am - 4:00pm | Seed Sale – shop directly from our premium seed stock |
| 8:00am - 1:00pm | Horticulturalist Guided Tours through the Park Seed Trail Gardens beginning every 30 Minutes |
| 8:30am - 9:15am | “New Plants and Garden Trends for 2009” discussion lead by horticulturalist Denise Bruner. |
| 9:30am - 10:30am | Q&A with Joe Lamp’l of DIY Network’s Fresh from the Garden |
| 11:00am - 12:00pm | Victory Gardening demonstration lead by Joe Lamp’l |
| 1:00pm - 1:45pm | “It’s all Latin to Me” a humorous discussion of plant names lead by horticulturalist Denise Smith. |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Q&A with Joe Lamp’l |
Event Coordinator: Walt Yates