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Turn a pottery profit with a 'potting sister'
In a "want" industry, it's your job to create a consumer "need." When customers walk into your store, you want them to exclaim, "I need that!" The million-dollar question is how do we do that? The answer, creative merchandising.
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Ratchet up your tool display
Market to women with POP
Smart marketing appeals to consumers
Pansy Dig creates flurry of sales, boosts gro...
Statuary and fountain tips
Big-screen promotion
Treat specimen plants like works of art
Fair trade FAQ
Decked out for the holidays
Containers evolve to satisfy industry, retail...
Color-blocking basics
Promotion on a stick: Display stakes
Tonkadale Greenhouse promotes the joys of fai...
Tricked-out containers capture consumers' eye...
Bring your signs into the zone
Marketing a prehistoric product
Consumer advertising can work for small growe...
Plants for a cause
Plants
Combo Chef: Foliage fanatic
Landscape designer Cathy Testa created this foliage-rich combination for large containers. Golden sh...
Hibiscus moscheutos Flemings Hybrids
Monrovia is introducing three hardy hibiscus that are part of the Flemings Hybrids. These Hibiscus m...
Combo Chef: White wedding
Proven Winners created this sophisticated, all-white combination to appeal to brides. Potted plants ...
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Water crisis
I've followed the crisis the drought brought to the Southeastern green industry closely. It's been h...
Scouting Notes - May 2008
California announces LBAM eradication plan, biologicals provide thrips control, avoid overwatering t...
Choose the most effective aphid controls
For plant entomologists, evidence that spring has arrived is the increased number of phone calls and...
Interviews
Plant hunter Tim Wood goes on safari to find the unusual
New plants are fun and keep the nursery business interesting. We'd get bored if the product mix didn...
Jim Monroe talks about his brand and marketing program
How many growers are producing plants for the Hort Couture program? Is there any part the country wh...
Profiles: Rick Vuyst
Rick Vuyst oversees operations at Fruit Basket Flowerland, a three-store chain in Grand Rapids, Mich...
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PRO Notes: May 2008 - GMPro
New positions, honors, associations, business changes. and deaths.
WebPro: Pest Alert
Web sites that are up-to-date on pest information.
3 distributors form alliance
Griffin Greenhouse and Nursery Supplies headquartered in Tewksbury, Mass., BFG Supply Co. headquarte...
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Napa develops in-store boutique
ASCFG celebrates 20th anniversary
Home Depot quits selling pesticides in Canada
Summer Valentine is daylily winner
AARS launches Region's Choice
More thrips overwintering in Maryland
Project aims to create 'smart' greenhouse
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Project: Green Industry
Sustainable solutions for horticulture--the green industry.
Rain barrels, the hot product of spring 2008
Time, money crunch thwarts organic gardening
Home Depot quits selling pesticides in Canada
Californian has something to say about proposed moth spraying
The green party
Open Register
The marketplace seen through the eyes of garden/gift specialty retailers.
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Achla Designs joins forces with Koko Co.
I spy a case of product espionage
New moms get the gift of fresh air
Warming trend shifts hardiness zones
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Hibiscus moscheutos Flemings Hybrids
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Plant hunter Tim Wood goes on safari to find the unusual
Diligence, sanitation are important against these pests
Water crisis