What Types of Seeds Does Botanical Interests Offer?

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Botanical Interests offers around 600 seed varieties for home gardeners, spanning flowers, vegetables, and herbs. The catalog includes heirloom, organic, and open-pollinated types, and the company states its seeds are Non-GMO Project Verified. If you want a single source for a mixed home garden — pumpkins, garlic, lettuce, basil, and more — the range is broad enough to cover it, with the caveat that specific varieties rotate in and out of stock.

The three main plant categories

The site organizes seeds around what you're actually growing:

  • Vegetables — including pumpkins, lettuce, and other food crops
  • Flowers — annuals and perennials for ornamental planting
  • Herbs — culinary and garden herbs such as basil

Each category carries multiple varieties rather than a single option per plant, so you can choose by flavor, size, color, or growing habit.

What the seed-type labels mean

These terms appear throughout the catalog and describe how a variety was developed or how it reproduces — not its quality tier.

Label What it tells you
Heirloom A variety with a documented history, typically passed down and open-pollinated
Organic Grown and handled under organic certification standards
Open-pollinated Seeds that produce plants similar to the parent, so you can save seed
Non-GMO Project Verified Verified through the Non-GMO Project's third-party program

A single variety can carry more than one of these labels — for example, an organic heirloom that is also open-pollinated.

Examples from the current catalog

The live product listings show how these categories look in practice:

Pumpkins (seasonal favorites): Cinderella, Howden, Jack Be Little, Red Warty Thing, Sugar Pie, Jack O'Lantern, Atlantic Giant, Big Max, Galeux d'Eysines, Jarrahdale, Abominable, and Black Kat. Prices in the listing range from about $2.42 to $5.39 per packet.

Garlic bulbs (planting stock, not seed): Montana Zemo Hardneck, Silver White Softneck, Sicilian Artichoke Softneck, Chesnok Red Hardneck, German White Stiffneck Hardneck, Majestic Hardneck, Romanian Red Hardneck, and Inchelium Red Softneck — most listed as USDA Certified Organic, roughly $6.95–$8.95 each. A Cold Climate Garlic Bundle is offered for Zones 1–5.

Best sellers: Buttercrunch Butterhead Lettuce and Italian Genovese Basil appear among the top-selling seeds.

Bundles: Curated collections such as the Pumpkin Patch Bundle, Harvest Moon Garden, Heavy Metal Garden, and Trick or Treat Garden group multiple varieties at a discount off individual pricing.

How to decide what fits your garden

  • If you want to save seed year to year, look for open-pollinated or heirloom varieties.
  • If organic certification matters to you, filter for the organic label — garlic listings in particular are marked USDA Certified Organic.
  • If you're planting by hardiness zone, bundles like the Cold Climate Garlic Bundle are pre-grouped for Zones 1–5.
  • If you're buying for a specific project (a pumpkin display, a kitchen herb bed), start from the themed collection rather than browsing all 600 varieties.

Because stock changes — the page notes Halloween items sell out and garlic is seasonal — check availability before planning around a specific variety.