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Floral industry and consumer studies conducted by the Society of American Florists (SAF) show overwhelmingly positive Mother's Day sales results despite a global pandemic. More than 90% of floral industry members responding to a Society...
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Perennial Plant Association is excited to announce the first “PPA: Virtual Edition” event scheduled for June 17 on New Ways to Communicate. Presented in partnership with GardenComm, this fast-paced webinar features five speakers who will...
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On May 5, the National Initiative for Consumer Horticulture (NICH) will present a free webinar on “Doing Business Under Difficult Circumstances – Finding the Resources You Need!” The one-hour webinar will take place at 12 p.m....
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All-America Selections is now offering a Point-of-Purchase kit to IGCs, which includes an informational poster about AAS Winners two bench cards and 100 generic AAS Winner tags, all created by MasterTag. This kit is available...
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For 100 years, National Garden Bureau (NGB) has been inspiring and educating the public to garden. The original Victory Gardens were started during WW I when food was scarce. NGB founder James H. Burdett was...
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The Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Endowment Fund, created in 1989 by the Southern Nursery Association (SNA), is reminding eligible horticulture students in their junior, senior or graduate years of study to consider applying for this...
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The American Floral Endowment (AFE) is excited to announce a new online campaign, “Give Flowers on Giving Tuesday”, to encourage the gift of flowers during the May 5th GivingTuesdayNow event. Giving Tuesday is a global generosity...
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Michigan Nursery & Landscape Association recently released a statement on COVID-19: On behalf of Michigan’s Green Industry – the nursery and greenhouse growers, retail garden centers, lawn care, landscape maintenance, design/build, tree care, and irrigation...
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AmericanHort has announced a new Women in Horticulture program that will begin with a series of monthly online interviews with accomplished women in the industry. There also will be a Women in Horticulture educational networking...
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AmericanHort has announced the dates for four industry events that will be taking place later this fall. The events will address the plant health, retail, nursery and landscape sectors. All four events are still in...
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On March 24, the Society of American Florists sent a letter to the nation’s governors urging state governments to keep floral and related businesses open during the ongoing COVD-19 crisis, citing the importance of flowers to the...
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In response to the current COVID-19 situation, AmericanHort’s president and CEO, Ken Fisher, released a statement to its members on March 17, outlining some of the things the organization is doing to help the industry....
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