SCS's publication, Improved Plant Materials Cooperatively Released by SCS Through December 1986, lists many useful conservation cultivars of plants, including wildflowers. The SCS publication notes States in which each plant grows best and which plant materials centers grow them for seed. The booklet is available at no charge from W. Curtis Sharp, SCS national plant materials specialist, P.O. Box 2890, Washington, DC 20013. He also has a list of the centers which may be visited. Carpenter discusses groups of plant buyers and how to reach them through paid or free promotions.
Gardeners are one potential market.
Garden clubs often have garden sales at meetings. Other markets might include landscapers and interiorscapers or interior decorators for civic or other public areas, colleges, other institutions, and private apartments. Another way to reach consumers is by displaying potted perennials at grocery stores or florist shops or from a temporary green house in a shopping center parking lot or along a highway with ample parking space. For seed sales, growers may wish to contact groups of wildlife and bird conservationists, some of whose members may have farmland lying fallow much of the year. They welcome ideas about wildflowers bearing seeds or fruit that stays on branches up above the usual snowfall.