Best Park Seed in 2026

If you had an expensive greenhouse, you couldn't get better insulation or more effective protection for your young plants than with simple, economical Kozy Coats!

These UV-resistant plastic jackets fit around the plant, and when you fill their 18 hollow tubes with water, they are warmed by the sun, releasing much-needed heat to your plant while keeping it safe from spring winds, rains, and unseasonable frost!

Just imagine -- you no longer need live in fear of the weather report, but can set your tomatoes, peppers, and flowering plants out weeks earlier, each protected by its own Kozy Coat! The red tint of the plastic produces stockier plants sooner than ever before, without chemicals or expensive soil amendments!

All-America Selections (AAS) Winner 1999 Wee-B-Little Pumpkin is grown as a fruit vegetable. These miniature oblate-shaped globes have a diameter of about 3½ inches and weigh between 8 and 16 ounces. The smooth deep orange rind is perfect for painting, and the sweet deep-yellow flesh is good for pumpkin pies, stews, and soups, or for canning.

Roasted pumpkin seeds make a nutritious and delicious snack. These pumpkins are also good for carving and make excellent jack-o'-lanterns.

Wee-B-Little Pumpkin, an herbaceous annual winter squash, is a member of the cucurbit (Cucurbitaceae) family. It has a semi-bush habit and forms a compact vine that needs about 8 feet of garden space. Open pollinated, it produces seed that will grow true to type, ideal for seed saving.

Days to Maturity: 75 from direct sow For more than 125 years, gardeners have been growing Basil Lettuce Leaf. It's simply the most productive variety, with giant leaves on bushy, vigorous plants. The aroma is enticing, and the flavor is more sweet than spicy, a gentle mild bite that the whole family will love. You're going to love this popular favorite!

Basil Lettuce Leaf earns its name with big, slightly serrated and crinkled leaves up to 4 inches wide and 6 inches long. Very closely set on well-branched plants 18 to 24 inches high, they keep coming all season—just pinch off the flower buds as they form, and Lettuce Leaf will keep growing more foliage.

About those flowers, though—Lettuce Leaf is slow to bolt, so you'll get a longer season of harvest. And as you pinch off the blooms, save them—they make delicious additions to salads and yummy garnish for the plate.

The finest name in pumpkins is now available from Park Seed! Selected by John Howden himself for success in the home garden, this is the pumpkin Linus might have chosen to grow in his really sincere pumpkin patch!

These deep orange, ribbed, plump pumpkins set the industry standard for appearance, vitality, and yields.

The heavy-bearing plants yield a big crop of 20- to 30-pound pumpkins, each measuring 13 to 16 inches long.

Radishes are coming into their own at last on American tables, and that's great news for gardeners! No vegetable is quicker to grow, and with easy-to-sow seed tape, you can sow straight rows and pretty designs in seconds in the vegetable patch or parterre! This mix contains 3 different varieties you will love!

Here's more about each type of radish in this collection: Starburst - 60 days. A Chinese variety with roots as big as tangerines and as bright red (within the creamy white skin) as watermelons! Great for pickling as well as fresh eating, they reach 2 to 2 in diameter, maturing slowly.

French Breakfast - 27 days. A unique carrot-like shape and rosy-pink color accented with a white tip! Gourmet mild-tasting, sweet, crisp bite. Matures very early and demonstrates thick, lush foliage. Roxanne 27 days. AAS Winner. Charming little round 1-inch fruits are ready to eat in less than 3 weeks, but will hold a long time with no loss of flavor! Adaptable to a huge range of climates, this is the tastiest and most gardenworthy radish yet!

The new standard for large Marigolds has arrived, and its name is Whopper! Available only from Park, this sturdy, long-blooming Marigold boasts fully double blooms a mind-boggling 4 inches across. Not since the old Inca (now discontinued) have blooms even approaching this size been available -- and Park's Whopper holds its double flower form all season, unlike many crash-and-burn giants!

These bright orange flowers are simply stuffed with short, quilled petals, so symmetrical and beautifully rounded that they scarcely look real! A closely-spaced planting of Park's Whopper is a real delight, because when the plants begin blooming, you literally have a solid wall of flowers -- no foliage or ground visible in between!

Best of all, this Marigold isn't a prima dona that gives you one or two magnificent blooms and then rests on its laurels, while you ply it with fertilizer and attention to try to coax a little more color out of it! No, this is simply a terrific garden plant, reaching 18 inches tall, 12 inches wide, and blooming just as freely as its smaller cousins all summer long.

Includes 25 Seeds in a Pack. This sturdy, long-blooming Marigold boasts fully double blooms a mind-boggling 4 inches across.

These bright yellow, gold, and orange flowers are simply stuffed with short, quilled petals, so symmetrical and beautifully rounded that they scarcely look real!

Reaching 18 inches tall, 12 inches wide, and blooming just as freely as its smaller cousins all summer long. You may get a few blooms that are 3 3/4 instead of the full 4 inches, but that's a problem most of us would just love to have!

Marigold 'Daisy Wheel Lemon' features frilly-edged single blooms in a perfectly lovely pale lemon shade.

The unique shape and color of the blooms offers a beautiful contrast to the bushy dark green foliage of the plant.

With regular deadheading, this showy French marigold will continue to bloom all summer long.

The Green Machine produces an abundance of remarkable quality, uniformly shaped fruit that keep giving throughout the season.

This Zucchini is a top performer in Midwest and Southeast field trials, providing bountiful yields of fruit ranging from 6-7 inches in length.

Be sure to give the Zucchini plenty of room in your garden, spacing plants 18-24 inches apart.

Now you can grow baby Romaine that matures quickly yet has all the flavor and texture associated with full sized varieties.

This seed packet contains equal parts Truchas and Breen, two superior varieties for space-saving, quick-crop delectability.

Truchas: is an upright Romaine with crimson leaves. Just 6 to 8 inches at maturity, it offers a deliciously fresh, tender bite that manages to stay crisp while also being succulent and mild.

80 days from setting out transplants; 95 days from direct sowing. No more wasted cantaloupe slices with Lilliput! This personal-sized melon is just right for one person to devour at a single sitting.

And because it grows quickly, finishes fast, and smells as good as it tastes, you will most likely gobble up the entire generous harvest in no time, and put Lilliput at the top of your list for next year's veggie garden! Lilliput is high in sugars and very aromatic, with dark orange flesh and a very small seed cavity. It is well netted, reaching just 3 to 5 inches in diameter and weighing 1 to 2 pounds when mature.

Petite and packed with flavor! Lilliput is a good choice for hot and humid climes where other melons may suffer. But it is well adapted, thriving in a wide range of gardens.

Early to mature, it can be planted successively for an extra long season of great eating.

An early maturing cantaloupe renowned for its firm, aromatic, absolutely delicious flesh. Athena is the gardeners' favorite for dependable performance and great holding power on the vine.

This is a melon you don't have to rush to harvest, and every 5- to 6-pound fruit is super sweet, succulent, and delicious.

52 to 55 days for full-sized pickles; much sooner for gherkins. For my time and money, there is no finer Cucumber for making sweet gherkins than Alibi. The fruit is absolutely delectable, with a good texture that holds up well for pickling, a perfect shape, and huge yields on space-saving plants.

This fruit reaches 4 inches long if you let it, but it will be more tender and succulent if you pick it much smaller (at about the size of your pinkie). It arises on very compact vines that take up less space in the garden.

It scores very well for yields and for various measures of fruit quality. This is a top-notch Cuke you won't want to miss!

Grow little gherkins in patio pots with this award-winning beauty! Parisian gherkin (don't you love the name) is one of the very few organic varieties ever to win an All-America Selections. But when the judges saw this compact, semi-vining plant setting masses of scrumptious little black-spined cukes, they had no choice!

Best picked at just 2 to 4 inches long (about 1 to 2 ounces), these cukes are not mushy little fall-aparts. They have texture, grip, and bite. Very crisp and flavorful, they are a delectable treat raw or sliced, but have been labeled gherkins because they hold up so well to pickling, and make the perfect little pickles for gourmet occasions as well as everyday noshing.

The plant reaches just 10 or 12 inches high, but is generously branched and sets about two dozen fruits. Of course, it can be grown in the veggie patch as well as in containers, and shows great vigor in any setting.

Nothing evokes a country gate or rustic mailbox as cheerily as a twining Black-Eyed Susan Vine, with masses of blooms all summer and large, lush foliage. This vine is ideal for growing up through fences and gates, pillars and poles.

Especially effective in containers, where its very full habit looks incredibly lush! 1 to 2-inch blooms arise very profusely, facing out from the vine. Petal color ranges from mid-yellow to deep orange, & many blooms feature the characteristic black eye.

If you love Black-Eyed Susan, you've got to see the two new color mixes fresh from our gardens! Blushing Susie is a warm-toned blend of red and rose shades, with a few pinks and apricots thrown in for good measure.

The Victorians were Coleus addicts -- so much so that, at the height of this plant's popularity, there was said to be a "Coleus craze" sweeping the populace! Looking at these reselected varieties from the heyday of the Coleus craze, it's easy to see why they were so popular!

In this mix you get large foliage on small plants. Most of the leaves are 6 to 7 inches long and 4 inches wide, yet the plants are very compact -- 12 to 15 inches high and wide! They arise in all the colors for which Coleus is known -- burgundy, scarlet, maroon, bronze, cream, pink, and white -- and sporting interesting touches, such as neatly-serrated edges or dramatic veining. You will love these old-fashioned beauties, reselected for modern vigor and terrific garden or container performance!

Originally selected as houseplants, the Coleus in this mix are also fine specimens in the shade garden, and are just the right size for containers. They are also fabulous in a mass planting!

Developed just for salsa, this medium-hot chile pepper turns out to be heavy bearing and delicious, too. Boasting just the right amount of heat, it can be picked green for salsa or allowed to turn red for full nutritional kick and use in salads, sauces, and more.

Garden Salsa Hybrid scores 3,000 Scovilles on the heat index, which gives it a nice little bite in salsa but doesn't produce so much heat that diners have to be warned before they try it. It's a great all-purpose pepper, because it does offer a nicely nuanced flavor that works in a variety of dishes.

Expect these long, skinny peppers to reach 8 or 9 inches long but just about an inch in diameter at the widest point (the shoulders). The skin is thin, glossy, and firm, protecting the succulent flesh within, you can even dry Garden Salsa Hybrid and then grind it into spice.

Fleuroselect Novelty Award Winner 2014 The Zinderella family of zinnias burst onto the scene when peach won Europe's Fleuroselect Novelty Award for its unique color and very unusual flower form.

Known as scabiosa blooms for their resemblance to pincushion flower (scabiosa), these double blooms are eye-catching from way down the street, and boast so many layers of petals they are often as "tall" as they are wide.

Zinderella Lilac' offers big crested pompon blooms of bright lilac with a delicate cream "halo" around the central eye. Reaching 2 to 3 inches wide, these blooms boast a pompon of tightly-clustered short petals above a skirt of longer, daisylike petals. During warm days and warm nights, you will see 10-15-20% single flowers. When day and night temperatures differ, double blooms will appear. Very distinctive.

66 days from setting out plants. Grow your broccoli the natural way this year with Belstar Organic Hybrid, a superbly adaptable, compact plant that sets tightly held, delicious blue-green heads in both spring and fall.

These domed heads reach 6 to 8 inches wide, with a blue-green cast and very tight beading to lock in that succulent flavor. The plant itself reaches 16 to 20 inches high and 16 inches wide.

If you've thought about growing organically, make Broccoli one of the first crops you choose. The florets are very difficult to get completely clean of sprays and other chemicals, so they're best grown with only Certified Organic treatments. And when you start with Certified Organic seed such as Belstar, you know you're growing the best!

No wonder PowWow Wild Berry won an All-America Selection Award 2010 (continues to pile up honors). It's not only the most brilliantly colored Echinacea yet, but it's also the best branched, which means more flowers all season. It doesn't need to be deadheaded to set new buds, so the flowers just keep coming. It's compact, you can grow it in a container, or squeeze it into that crowded sunny border. Oh, & did we mention that it blooms the first year, just 20 weeks from sowing the seed.

It's truly a breakthrough for the Echinacea purpurea family. The bloom color is fade-proof and absolutely unique. (The flowers make terrific everlastings as well as fresh-cut bouquets, by the way.) The flowers are so profuse on these compact little plants, beginning in early summer & then going right into fall until nipped back by frost. Like all echinacea, PowWow Wild Berry attracts butterflies & bees to the fresh blooms in summer & birds to the seed-filled cones in autumn & winter.

This plant reaches just 20 to 24 inches high when not in bloom, and spreads 12 to 16 inches wide. Despite this small size, it bears more blooms than just about any other echinacea we've ever grown. The flowers add another 9 to 12 inches to the plant's height, giving you thick, long lasting stems for the vase. And you don't have to keep up with pinching off the fading blooms.

One of the most striking Snapdragons we have ever seen, Night and Day is a bold study in contrast. The deep scarlet blooms shade almost into black, revealing their parentage (the famous heirloom Snap, Black Prince) and highlighting the pure white of the lower "jaws." Absolutely stunning!

The plant grows 18 inches tall and about a foot wide, blooming in spring and fall in warm climates and all summer in cooler ones. The blooms have a strong spicy scent and arise very abundantly on robust plants.

For an interesting effect, try interplanting Night and Day with its parent, Black Prince, which has deep crimson blooms and bronze foliage (and is the same plant size).

Masses of pencil-thin, vibrantly colorful bloomspikes arise on this perennial sage, so densely set that they present a solid wall of color in the border.

The deep blue blooms are richly colorful on dwarf 12-inch plants, blooming in early summer and then repeating their fine show later in the season.

A spectacular source of dark, intense color and narrow, vertical form, Blue Queen is one of the finest salvias we know, attracting butterflies to the garden and prompting exclamations and double-takes from visitors.

Days to Maturity: 130 from direct sow

This smooth-skinned, nicely-rounded green gourd is just crying out to be a crafts project. Perfect for birdhouses, this Lagenaria (bottle-shaped) type is as fun after harvest as it is to grow.

Very easy and heavy-bearing, the Birdhouse gourd is ideal for families, class projects, and craftspeople of all types.

No herb or kitchen garden is complete without mint, and peppermint adds a festive note to the display, evoking the holidays and filling the air with its fresh, clean scent when rubbed. Give it a go from seed this season and delight your friends with little peppermint seedlings for the holidays!

Strongly aromatic peppermint can be used in both cooking - in drinks, salads, and baked goods - and in potpourri and other fragrant decorative items.

Peppermint is a perennial, reaching 3 feet tall in the garden (much smaller in pots and indoors), and spreading just as far as you will let it. It offers smooth, lance-shaped 3-inch leaves, bright green with purple tints around the edges.

Stunning Silver Dollar Plant: Grow versatile Eucalyptus Cinerea seeds for exceptional color, fragrance, and texture, perfect for both indoor and outdoor gardens.

Rapid Growth & Longevity: Enjoy quick growth with up to 8 feet of height in a single season and a mature height of up to 30 feet, ideal for small gardens and landscapes.

Hardy & Low-Maintenance: Thriving in full sun with moist, well-drained loamy soil, these easy-care, drought-tolerant plants are resistant to diseases, pests, heat, and humidity.

Flirty Skirts is "the" container pansy in Europe, and will create a sensation in your garden, too.

Ruffles and smiling faces are the hallmarks of this fantastic European variety, one of our classic favorites for many seasons now. These cheerful 2 inch blooms are 100% ruffled, as compared to older varieties where the ruffles tend to be erratic and scarce. And the flowers turn upward instead of nodding, giving you a much showier display than larger flowered types that shyly hide their faces.

Mix Includes Two Color Blends: Blue: Offers a bright confection of white, yellow, and various shades of purple and blue. Burgundy: Combines deep reddish-purple and blue with jet-black markings.

Make a bold statement in your planter, hanging basket, flower bed or landscape with the Petunia Shock Wave Tie Dye Purple plant. This spreading Petunia provides abundant blooms from Spring through late Summer in shades of lavender to violet, and some bicolors.

Shock Waves start blooming much sooner in spring, thanks to less day-length sensitivity, and they keep coming all summer and into fall. And the old blooms obligingly drop from the plants, so no more deadheading for you!

And the Shock Waves stand up to rain, humidity, heat, and other environmental stresses better than older Waves, bouncing back from summer showers and thunderstorms very well. Compact and very well-branched, they keep their lush, full habit.

In 4 vibrant shades, these big semi- to fully-double flowers arise all along tall, sturdy stalks beginning just 4 months from sowing. An annual Summer Carnival Hollyhock is a long-blooming, very colorful series so garden-worthy that it received an AAS award. Tall and stately, it blooms all summer for a rich display of big powderpuff blossoms in every shade of pink, rose, red, and yellow.

The 4-inch blooms are richly hued, and will not fade in the summer sun. Superb for cutting, they open from the bottom of the stalk upwards, keeping you in fresh blooms for weeks on end. And this stunning series sets its blooms even lower on the stalk than most hollyhocks, for a little more color on every stalk.

Easy to grow in full sun and almost any well-drained soil, this annual really takes off with a top-dressing of cow manure.

What a joy—big, wide-open Hollyhock blooms in clear shades of white, yellow, red, purple, and pink with Happy Lights Hollyhock Mix. Single-flowered Hollyhocks are hard to find these days, and rust-resistant varieties harder still. But this improved mix not only gives you radiant color and plenty of it, but is also a tall, rust-free, ready-to-bloom plant just made for the back of the border, the garage or barn wall, and other show-off spots. No wonder it won Europe's highest seed award.

Happy Lights Hollyhock Mix is a bold blend of white, pink, purple, red, and yellow blooms, each measuring about 3 inches apart and arising all along 5- to 7-foot stalks. This Hollyhock is no shrinking Violet—it shoots up tall and fast, with a long season of color-drenched blooms you can see from down the street. (Maybe they should have called it "Happy Searchlights" instead.)

Sow the seeds in February for blooms the first summer, or in July and August for next year. Happy Lights Hollyhock Mix thrives in any good garden soil (even dry ones) provided it's well-drained and exposed to full sunshine. Best of all, Happy Lights Hollyhock Mix is more resistant to rust than most any other Hollyhock. I would've said Country Garden couldn't be improved, but boy oh boy, Happy Lights has proved me wrong. You'll love the difference.

A hybrid hot pepper, Quickfire is grown as a fruit vegetable. Although Quickfire is highly ornamental, it is typically grown for its high yields of tasty peppers.

The attractive plant sets small, star-shaped "perfect" flowers followed by a profusion of 1.7-inch, conical green fruits that mature red and stand erect on the plant. These Thai-type chilies are hot, rating 40,000 units on the Scoville scale. Use fresh or dried and ground as a spice. Hot peppers are a good source of vitamin C.

Typically grown as an annual, Quickfire, an herbaceous, frost-tender, short-lived evergreen perennial, is a member of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). A Capsicum annum, commonly called cayenne pepper, chili pepper, or hot pepper, Quickfire grows rapidly, forming a very compact, bushy plant with ovate, smooth-margined, dark green leaves.