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From Trial Field to Retail Bench — and Everything in Between

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From Trial Field to Retail Bench — and Everything in Between

I have been in the horticulture industry since a very young age, and whenever anyone would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would reply “A grower, just like my... more »

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Growing a New Brand

Today’s fastest-growing organic gardening company began with a simple question posed to two students by their college professor: Did you know mushrooms can grow on coffee grounds? Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora, then seniors at... more »
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From Crisis to Innovation

The 2022 Garden Trends Report — From Crisis to Innovation from Garden Media Group outlines the shift that has occurred in the green industry and beyond. It goes past “The Great Reset” of 2021 and... more »

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A Drive Down Memory Lane

It’s not every day you drive your car into a garden center. But if you’re in Ann Arbor, Michigan, you can do just that at Downtown Home and Garden, a century-old retailer located in the... more »

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Hitting the Road in Late Summer

While it was toward the end of season, these IGCs stepped it up with their indoor living and houseplants, providing customers with varied options and décor ideas with vignettes set up in and around their... more »
Cam Rees is general manager of Skinner Garden Store in Topeka, Kansas.

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5 Minutes With … Cameron Rees

Cam Rees is general manager of Skinner Garden Store in Topeka, Kansas. Could you share a little about your background? I grew up on a family orchard operation, playing on the orchard as a kid... more »
Groovy Plants Ranch plant and box

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Considering E-Commerce for Your Garden Center?

Are you considering e-commerce for your plant business? For many growers and retailers, website construction and maintenance is a daunting task, let alone the tedious management of an e-commerce platform. I thought I would share... more »

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Trending There and Here

Whether it’s clothes, cars or plants, we often look across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe to get a feel of what might be the next hot trend or trends. I reached out to Peter van... more »

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Creating a ‘Wow’ Experience for Your Customers

Recently I was driving with my 5-year-old grandson down to a Minnesota state park, where they have free-roaming bison you can sometimes see from an unprotected road running through the park. He’d been talking about... more »
Monrovia 6418 Hesperaloe parviflora 'Perpa' Brakelights_1909

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Adapting to a Changing Climate: Garden Centers are Finding Long-Term Eco-Friendly Solutions to Adjust to Climate Challenges.

Hotter-than-average summers have brought new challenges not only to home gardeners but to garden centers as well. Garden centers and growers are addressing the issue by adapting more eco-friendly practices and promoting drought-tolerant and native... more »
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Hot Market, Cool Houseplants

Amid the red-hot, got to have it, forget ever buying a home, houseplant market, are a few notable and inexpensive alternatives. Can’t fill an order for 1,000 philodendron ‘Caramel Marble’ that sells for an average... more »
NHS preview Ground Rules

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Ground Rules

Call it the greening trifecta of 2021 — everyday gardening meets self-sufficiency meets food origin awareness. The result? A backyard and balcony edible garden boom, where no space is too small for the “foodscaping” movement.... more »