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How savvy garden center retailers find and service the market. Here's a hard/fast rule that will help determine whether you flourish or flounder this spring: Be relevant locally. Yes, you're wise to think globally. Sure, it's chic to be a "grand scheme" planner. But unless you answer this question right, you're wrong:
 

 

Plants
I love a good grass. The right grass in the right place can elevate a drab landscape and take it thr...
They say familiarity breeds contempt, but I can't help loving Indian hawthorn -- a shrub that's foun...
Cabernet is a new barberry from Bailey Nurseries that's part of its First Editions collection. Caber...
Insights
What does it mean, green? This is not a trend; this is a different time CARBONDALE, Colo. I have...
A couple of years ago, I drove my friend Angela to the airport for a flight home to Australia. Her...
Sometimes we all take things for granted until it's too late and they're gone. It's not that we don'...
Interviews
Roger's Gardens' high retail standards are famous throughout the industry. This past year, Roger's, ...
Oregon Association of Nurseries (OAN) understands that, ultimately, it's all about consumers. The su...
Jack Bigej operates three stores in the Portland, Ore., metro area. His employees are known as the P...
Industry news
A team from Penn State and University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom developed a computer model ...
University of Michigan researchers are charged with determining how much heat-trapping carbon dioxid...
In the spring, scientists with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS), Iowa State U...