We are really excited to invite our trade customers to spend a day with the plants at the BALL 2024 SUMMER SHOWCASE.

You will be in for a special treat as we take you on a journey of inspirational retail ideas, growing solutions and new varieties, all in the relaxed and friendly surroundings of the Oxfordshire countryside.
This is always a perfect opportunity to review your current plant range with your colleagues to identify new products for 2025 and view experimental lines being assessed for future introduction.

Highlights include:

• See the latest New Varieties for 2025
• Join the ‘New Varieties’ presentation at 11am every day!
• Retail Concept and Product Solution displays
• Pergola ‘Garden Room’ displays of all your Annual and Perennial Heroes
• Displays of showstopping patio plant varieties in basket, containers and retail benches
• Over 2,000 Experimental Annual and Perennials – your potential new varieties of the future!
• Perennial and colour themed Gardens
• Greenhouse Pot Trials
• Vote for your ‘Favourite Variety’

… plus, always lots of friendly advice from our team of experts!

Tea, coffee, cold drinks and a complimentary packed lunch will be available on the day of your visit.

Dates: 9-11, 16-18, 23-25 July (Tuesday to Thursday)
Time: 9am to 5pm
NEW Varieties Presentation: 11am every day
Venue: Ball, Milton Road, West Adderbury, Banbury, Oxon OX17 3EY

Over 60 years of Plant Trials

Ball Colegrave has been conducting plant variety trials and customer open days from their Trial Grounds in West Adderbury for 60 years.

Today’s Trial Grounds not only presents the companies wide assortment of catalogue varieties in a rich display of settings and retail ideas, but also comprehensively evaluates thousands of new future lines before introduction. This ensures that when a product is introduced in the Ball Colegrave catalogues, our staff and visitors have seen it and know it really does perform well under UK growing conditions!