Slideshow: Zylstra Greenhouses
Check out a photo slideshow from the Michigan Garden Plant Tour of Zylstra's cross-docking facility and its trial gardens featuring material from Ball Horticultural Co. and Selecta First Class.
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GroLink's 'Hip Hop' euphorbia© 2010 -
Danziger's 'Ray Rim Purple'© 2010 -
Selecta's 'PortoGrande Magenta' purslane© 2010 -
Zylstra Greenhouses is one of the operations on Greenhouse Grower's Top 25 Young Plant Growers List for 2010. The complete list© 2010 -
Head Grower Brent Troost says only two people are needed to run Zylstra's sowing line, which is located next to benches that can© 2010 -
Zylstra produces all 17 Trixi combo liners and finishes material, like these three different combo baskets.© 2010 -
Zylstra has become a Midwest tropicals supplier of AG3 and Agri-Starts material. "We'll do a finished program of 1 gallons for t© 2010 -
PanAmerican Seed's 'Plentifall Purple Wing' pansy© 2010 -
This Zylstra facility is designed with high-tech rolling benches.© 2010 -
Each rolling bench is marked with a bar-coded label that gives Zylstra the ability to track precisely where in its greenhouses p© 2010 -
Zylstra's fall mum crop© 2010 -
Zylstra's trial garden includes an assortment of varieties in containers.© 2010
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Greenhouse Grower's last stop on the Michigan Garden Plant Tour was Zylstra Greenhouses in Kalamazoo, Mich., where new varieties from Ball Horticultural Co. and Selecta First Class were on display.
Zylstra produces everything in the Selecta line, including all 17 Trixi combo liners. In the spring, Zylstra finishes material for independent garden centers in the South. It also ships to landscapers in the Chicago market.
"Not everyone can ship to middle-of-nowhere places," says Brent Troost, head grower. "One of our greatest abilities is serving the South."
In all, Zylstra has five facilities. The Kalamazoo facility hosting Zylstra's trial gardens is its cross-docking facility. It features state-of-the-art rolling benches that clearly make the operation one of Michigan's most efficient.
Learn more about Zylstra Greenhouses in our photo slideshow below.
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