Top 100 Growers: The 2012 List
Since our last Top 100 Growers List was released, a number of things have changed. While the majority of greenhouse growers added environmentally controlled square footage to their totals, others downsized their operations.
Monterey Peninsula Horticulture jumped three spots by acquiring Nurserymen’s Exchange in July 2011. In consolidating Nurserymen’s with Rocket Farms, Monterey Peninsula inherited an additional 2.5 million square feet.
Green Circle Growers added 500,000 square feet, and Kitayama Brothers jumped more than 20 spots to rank 54th this year. Heartland Growers added more than 200,000 square feet, climbing 12 spots to rank 57th.
Nash Greenhouse, Bob’s Market & Greenhouses and Lucas Greenhouses all added about 200,000 square feet to rise to 62nd, 64th and 66th, respectively. Plants Unlimited also benefited from an extra 100,000 square feet to move from a tie at 92nd to the 81st position.
B and H Flowers moved out of space it leased from Kitayama, which is one reason it dropped 32 spots. GroLink and Sunshine Floral slipped off the list, and Gallup & Stribling Orchids also dropped a significant amount of greenhouse space.
American Color, Corso’s Perennials and Sedan Floral are new to the list this year having added space or benefited from other businesses retracting space.
1 | 1 | Color Spot Nurseries | 16,200,000 | 14,274,000 |
2 | 2 | Kurt Weiss Greenhouses | 12,146,020* | 12,146,020 |
3 | 6 | Monterey Peninsula Horticulture | 8,305,180 | 5,805,180 |
4 | 3 | Costa Farms | 6,417,102 | 6,317,102 |
5 | 7 | Altman Plants | 6,010,603 | 5,402,350 |
6 | 5 | Metrolina Greenhouses | 5,850,000 | 5,500,000 |
7 | 4 | Paul Ecke Ranch/Ecke Geraniums | 5,600,000* | 5,600,000 |
8 | 8 | Color Star Growers | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 |
9 | 9 | Hines Nurseries | 4,834,000* | 4,834,000 |
10 | 12 | Green Circle Growers | 4,704,480 | 4,160,400 |
11 | 10 | Aris Horticulture | 4,352,080 | 4,352,080 |
12 | 11 | Bell Nursery | 4,212,480* | 4,212,480 |
13 | 13 | The Sun Valley Group | 4,000,000 | 4,000,000 |
14 | 14 | Delray Plants Co. | 3,868,116 | 3,868,116 |
15 | 15 | Speedling Inc. | 3,850,000 | 3,807,688 |
16 | 16 | Milgro Nursery Inc. | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 |
17 | 17 | Matsui Nursery | 3,438,000 | 3,438,000 |
18 | 18 | Hermann Engelmann Greenhouses | 3,300,000 | 3,300,000 |
19 | 19 | Ivy Acres | 3,253,290 | 3,253,290 |
20 | 20 | Mid-American Growers | 3,200,000 | 3,200,000 |
21 | 21 | Kerry’s Bromeliads | 3,100,000 | 3,100,000 |
22 | 22 | Woodburn Nursery & Azaleas | 2,850,000 | 2,850,000 |
23 | 23 | Dallas Johnson Greenhouses | 2,700,000* | 2,700,000 |
24 | 24t | Bay City Flowers | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 |
25 | 26 | Tagawa Greenhouses | 2,119,904* | 2,119,904 |
26 | 27 | Floral Plant Growers LLC | 2,103,105 | 2,103,105 |
27 | 28 | N G Heimos Greenhouses | 2,084,000 | 2,030,000 |
28 | 30 | Smith Gardens | 1,900,000 | 1,850,000 |
29 | 31 | Wenke Greenhouses | 1,829,520 | 1,829,520 |
30 | 32 | Dan Schantz Farm | 1,814,381 | 1,814,381 |
31 | 33 | Barcelo Enterprises | 1,800,000* | 1,800,000 |
32 | 34 | Battlefield Farms | 1,785,960 | 1,785,960 |
33 | 35 | Valley Flowers | 1,740,000 | 1,740,000 |
34 | 36 | Northwest Horticulture | 1,698,840 | 1,698,840 |
35 | 37 | Westland Floral Co. | 1,677,060 | 1,677,060 |
36 | 43 | Plant Marketing LLC | 1,616,400 | 1,503,400 |
37 | 38 | Ocean Breeze International | 1,614,000 | 1,614,000 |
38 | 39 | Bergen’s Greenhouses Inc. | 1,611,720* | 1,611,720 |
39 | 41t | Young’s Plant Farm | 1,580,000 | 1,525,000 |
40 | 46t |
Colorama Wholesale Nursery |
1,530,000 | 1,500,000 |
41 | 40 |
Post Gardens Inc. |
1,527,000 | 1,527,000 |
42 | 41t | Clearwater Nursery | 1,525,000* | 1,525,000 |
43 | 44 | Garden State Growers | 1,502,820 | 1,502,820 |
44 | 45 | DeLeon’s Bromeliads | 1,500,939 | 1,500,939 |
45t | 46t | Kawahara Nurseries | 1,500,000* | 1,500,000 |
45t | 46t | Van Wingerden International | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 |
47 | 49 | Dan & Jerry’s Greenhouse | 1,445,000 | 1,445,000 |
48 | 50 | Willoway Nurseries | 1,418,340 | 1,418,340 |
49 | 51t | Panzer Nursery | 1,400,000 | 1,400,000 |
50 | 53 | Elzinga & Hoeksema Greenhouses | 1,393,920 | 1,393,920 |
51 | 60 | Olson’s Greenhouse | 1,360,840 | 1,300,000 |
52 | 56 | Henry Mast Greenhouses/ Masterpiece Flower Co LLC | 1,332,700 | 1,312,700 |
53 | 55 | Aldershot of New Mexico Inc. | 1,317,000 | 1,317,000 |
54 | 75t | Kitayama Bros. | 1,314,000 | 1,000,000 |
55t | 57t | Four Star Greenhouses | 1,306,800 | 1,306,800 |
55t | 57t | Bailey Nurseries | 1,306,800 | 1,306,800 |
57 | 71 | Heartland Growers | 1,306,800 | 1,306,800 |
58 | 61 | Rockwell Farms | 1,220,000 | 1,220,000 |
59 | 62 | Young’s Nursery & Greenhouses | 1,200,000 | 1,200,000 |
60 | 63 | Pacifica Flowers | 1,176,120 | 1,176,120 |
61 | 64 | Stacy’s Greenhouses Inc. | 1,150,000 | 1,150,000 |
62 | 82 | Nash Greenhouse | 1,132,000 | 913,000 |
63 | 65 | Timberline Nursery | 1,100,000 | 1,100,000 |
64 | 90 | Bob’s Market & Greenhouses Inc. | 1,096,360 | 815,000 |
65 | 85 | Lucas Greenhouses | 1,095,576 | 883,896 |
66 | 66 | Hiebert Greenhouse Inc. | 1,089,000 | 1,089,000 |
67 | 72t |
Dramm & Echter |
1,085,000 | 1,040,070 |
68 | 67 | Riverview Flower Farm | 1,078,656 | 1,078,656 |
69 | 68 | Sawyer Nursery | 1,059,076* | 1,059,076 |
70 | 69 | Alex R. Masson | 1,045,440 | 1,045,440 |
71 | 70 | Armstrong Growers | 1,044,344 | 1,044,344 |
72 | 57t |
Johannes Flowers |
1,043,360 | 1,043,360 |
73 | 75t | Van de Wetering Greenhouses Inc. | 1,040,000 | 1,040,000 |
74 | 70 | Farmers’ West Flowers & Bouquests Inc. | 1,004,000 | 1,003,950 |
75 | 80 | Maria Gardens Greenhouses Inc. | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
76 | 51t | Gallup & Stribling Orchids | 1,000,050 | 1,400,000 |
77t | 75t |
Kent’s Bromeliad Nursery Inc. |
1,000,000 | 1,000,000* |
77t | 75t | Welby Gardens Co. Inc. | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
79 | 79 | Dewar Nurseries Inc. | 971,600 | 971,600 |
80 | 77 | Hart’s Nursery | 940,000 | 940,000 |
81 | 92t | Plants Unlimited | 900,000 | 800,000 |
82 | 83 | Petitti Garden Center (Casa Verde) | 895,000 | 895,000 |
83 | 84 | Richardson Bros. Inc. | 892,980 | 892,980 |
84 | 86 | White’s Nursery & Greenhouses Inc. | 860,000 | 860,000 |
85 | 87 | Twixwood Nursery LLC | 851,000 | 851,000 |
86t | 54 |
B And H Flowers |
850,000 | 1,350,000 |
86t | 88 | Blue Ridge Growers | 850,000 | 850,000 |
88 | 89 | Kube-Pak | 845,000 | 845,000 |
89 | 91 | Grower Direct Farms | 816,000 | 802,000 |
90 | 92t | South Central Growers | 800,000* | 800,000 |
91 | NR | American Color | 784,700 | NA |
92 | 94 | Cuthbert Greenhouses | 782,000 | 782,000 |
93 | 95 | Olive Hill Greenhouses Inc. | 760,000 | 760,000 |
94 | 96 | California Pajarosa | 750,000 | 750,000 |
95 | 97 | Myriad Flowers International | 740,520* | 740,520 |
96 | 98 | Esbenshades Greenhouse | 740,000 | 740,000 |
97 | NR | Corso’s Perennials | 705,000 | NA |
98 | 99 | Knox Nursery | 700,000 | 700,000 |
99 | 100 | Parks Brothers Farm | 677,000 | 677,000 |
100 | NR | Sedan Floral | 661,804 | NA |