Industry news/Trends

American Home Furnishings Alliance polled consumers earlier this year to discover which outdoor furniture styles are most favored.
 

 

Features
How savvy garden center retailers find and service the market. Here's a hard/fast rule that will he...
Problem: Grading plugs by hand took too long. Solution: An automated grading machine made the proc...
Horticulture is known as the green industry -- at least to growers, universities and allied companie...
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...

 

 

 

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