June 2025

Empowering indie retailers

Cultivate’25 sessions for independent plant shop owners cover everything from business reports to overcoming burnout.

Perennials and shrubs standouts from California Spring Trials

Debuting at CAST 2025, these perennials and shrubs will make a statement in your customers’ landscape.

Green industry to gather for Cultivate’25

For four days in July, horticulture industry representatives will descend upon Columbus, Ohio, for AmericanHort’s Cultivate’25.

Managing with a leadership mentality

Surviving 2025 will require not only managing our businesses as best we can, but also a leadership mentality.

5 Minutes With … Erik Friedli

Erik Friedli is a buyer at Flamingo Road Nursery and frequent industry trade show speaker.

Event Central: Full Moon Party

The Secret Garden's fall Full Moon Party draws a crowd during an otherwise typically slow month.

Are tariff gardens the new victory gardens?

Tariffs took effect in early April … and were lowered a few weeks later. With all this uncertainty, are Americans once again taking up gardening? If our experience with the COVID pandemic told us an... more

Finding style at California Spring Trials

There was no shortage of retail merchandising inspiration at CAST — consider these ideas for your retail store.

As seen in the June 2025 issue of Lawn & Garden Retailer

The following companies were featured in the June 2025 issue of Lawn & Garden Retailer.