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January 7, 2019
Rightplantz.com Provides Its 2018 Plant Trends Report

RightPlantz.com, an online community of passionate gardeners and green industry companies, has released its 2018 Annual RightPlantz Report. RightPlantz.com is a resource for gardeners of all experience levels to research plants through a plant finder,... more »

January 2019
Rooted Together

The future for gardening looks joyful and holds a connection to Mother Nature that just may be the saving grace of the planet. This bold prediction comes from the 2019 Garden Trends Report: Rooted Together... more »
Collegiate Plant Initiative

January 2019
Attracting and Empowering New Customers

The Collegiate Plant Initiative (CPI) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to make people who love plants and find the plants people love. Made up of undergraduate students without backgrounds in plant science or... more »

December 6, 2018
Pantone Chooses 2019 Color of the Year

Each December for the past 20 years Pantone has picked a color that we can expect to see more of in the coming year. In 2017, Greenery reigned supreme; for 2018, it was Ultra Violet;... more »

December 5, 2018
Consumer Horticulture Proposal Reviewers Needed to Impact How Federal Research Dollars Are Spent

Want to influence how federal research dollars are spent on Consumer Horticulture? It’s simple. Volunteer to be a reviewer of Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) proposals. Anyone who works in any aspect of horticulture, from production... more »

September 20, 2018
2019 Garden Trends Report Released from Garden Media Group

The future for gardening looks joyful and holds a connection to Mother Nature that just may be the saving grace of the planet. This bold prediction comes from Garden Media Group’s 2019 Garden Trends Report:  Rooted... more »

January 2018
Style Awakenings in 2018

On a recent morning as I was waking up, I turned on the radio to catch the headlines, and I heard that according to the Bloomberg Market Report (November 2017), residential construction starts are up... more »

September 11, 2017
Talking Trends

Each year, Garden Media Group releases its Garden Trends Report for the following year. Today is the first day you can download the trends for 2018! The theme this year is "Nature's Rx for Mental... more »

June 2017
Your Customers Are Talking

Let’s face it: As an industry we aren’t always the first to adapt to changing consumer technologies. We’re hesitant, we’ve been burned a couple of times, and due to the role that seasons and weather... more »

May 4, 2017
GrowIt!, NWF Team Up

GrowIt! Mobile has partnered with the National Wildlife Federation to help promote the Garden for Wildlife initiative. GrowIt! Mobile is working with the National Wildlife Federation to help show the GrowIt! community and all of North... more »

May 2017
A New Wave of Edibles

No matter where you live, there’s something special about harvesting homegrown vegetables — and customers are still responding to the edibles department. Help take it to the next level by adding assortments of texture and... more »

April 2017
Blending Indoors & Outdoors

Lawns and gardens have forever been in our lives, but as places to walk around, work in or admire. Today we’ve internalized our outdoors with a desire to keep it with us as long as... more »