Interviews/Production

Between the millions of young plants, the wide variety of finished plants and the new variety trials, Doug Cole, president of D.S. Cole Growers in Loudon, N.H., is entrenched in the industry. A true green-industry role model, Cole is a knowledge-hungry leader with a passion for improving his business and the entire industry.
 

 

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'...
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...

 

 

 

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