Flower Day at Park Seed Company is the heart of the South Carolina Festival of Flowers. The Flower Day open house event 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 whole 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 premiere 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 horticulturists 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 (http://www.parkseed.com/) and Wayside Gardens (http://www.waysidegardens.com/) strive to bring the best gardening products to gardeners across the country.

For additional information, please call 800.622.1012.

2008 Flower Day Schedule of Events

8:00 am – 5:00 pm: Garden Center open and Trial Gardens available for unstructured viewing and photography

8:00 am – 4:00 pm: Seed Sale – shop directly from stock used to fill catalog and Internet orders

8:30 am  – 9:15 am: Eric Johnson, Wayside Gardens Director of Horticulture and cohost of GardenSMART on PBS, presents "New and Exciting Plants for 2008"

9:00 am – 2:00 pm: Every 30 minutes, our horticulturists will offer guided tours through the Trial Gardens (last tour begins at 2:00)

9:30 am – 10:30 am: Paul James*, host of HGTV's Gardening by the Yard, answers your gardening questions

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm: Stephanie Turner, Park Seed's Director of Seed Product, presents "Great Annuals and Tropicals for Containers"

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Paul James*, host of HGTV's Gardening by the Yard, answers your gardening questions

*Paul James will be signing autographs for an hour in the main tent directly after his Q&A sessions

For complete details about the entire South Carolina Festival of Flowers program of events, visit http://www.scfestivalofflowers.org/.