The Ball Horticultural Company Shoppes on Main are back and better than ever! We’ll be open for your inspiration April 10-16 in Santa Paula, California, and our magnificent ornamental plant extravaganza has expanded to include more breeders, more varieties, more displays and more ideas, including:

NEW Retail Idea Center ..... Featuring hundreds of ways to grow your business, including the Wave® Ultimate Garden Center – our hands-on learning venue for selling even more of the most popular flowering annual ever. (For a look at our online guide, click here.)

NEW Varieties ..... Like PowWow™ Echinacea, a 2010 All-America Selections Winner in Wild Berry. It lets you send super-showy color to market by putting more flowers on every plant than other echinaceas. Or how about Ball FloraPlant's stunning Black Velvet Petunia - the world’s only black petunia! There’s a lot of buzz around this unique new color ... garden writers are sure to pick up on this innovative black petunia and drive up customer demand. Our PlentiFall F1 Trailing Pansy is the first trailing series of pansies from seed with a flat, spreading habit. Great for mixed containers and hanging baskets.

Burpee Home Gardens® ..... Grow and sell the most trusted name in home gardening. Burpee Home Gardens is a complete line of vegetables and herbs backed by the most comprehensive consumer marketing and merchandising. Be sure to see other edible varieties like SimplySalad™, a multi-seed, multi-pellet mixed salad combination that can be enjoyed as both a colorful, mixed-texture ornamental and as a delicious, nutritious edible! Gardeners can harvest every 3 weeks by cutting back to grow for more fresh salads.

Plus we’ve planned the perfect way to wind down your day. Fill your glass and enjoy conversation during our relaxed and inviting “days end” events, Monday–Thursday, 4–6 p.m. And there’s no need to hurry along the coast; linger in our Shoppes and outdoor courtyards, mingle with our breeders and staff from Ball FloraPlant, Selecta, PanAmerican Seed and Kieft-Pro-Seeds, and chat with fellow guests while sampling tasty treats.

We hope to see you there – but if you can’t make the trip, you can still see the show via our Spring Trials Scrapbook page. Browse event highlights, photos, memories and more all online.