Author: Carol Miller

Garden retail consultant Sid Raisch is taking on a new role: President and CEO of Bower & Branch, […]

AmericanHort hosted a day at Columbus’ high-end outdoor mall, Easton Town Center, giving garden retailers insight to what […]

Garden retail tours always offer a banquet of ideas that attendees can use back at their own garden […]

We went looking for what will be introduced at the summer shows in 2016. Here are the new products we’re told will be at Cultivate’16.

Al’s Garden Center is a big store with dozens of endcaps in its plant department. The retailer’s merchandising team took three simple items — pallet wood, crates, and wood frames — and combined them in numerous ways. Each endcap had its own look, but was visually tied to its neighbors.

Portland has a number of impressive garden retailers who use creative approaches to solving display challenges. Here are a number of plant and product display fixtures we spied on last week’s tour.

Now is the time of year to sell your customers what they like, rather than what they need. According to industry consultant Ian Baldwin, one way to do this is to use silent selling techniques and devices that help validate a purchase.

The fire not only consumed the Wisconsin garden retailer’s structures, but also major equipment like dump trucks. In all, the owners estimate $1.2 million in damage occurred.

Fresh from a busy spring season, retailers share their wish list of things growers can do to make spring generate even more sales.

Several established garden stores announced they were closing at the end of the 2016 season. Most of these retailers are decades old, including one that is closing after 133 years in business.

The green industry has almost no research on plant pricing. With an industry that struggles to survive on slim margins, that’s a problem. This survey is designed to help address the need, and we invite everyone to participate.

Planning on attending the Easter Show For IGCs? Here’s a list of new and interesting things you’ll want to do while at the Philadelphia show.

We asked garden retailers with whom they share their various reports, from the P&L to slow moving SKUs. See if your own openness matches your peers.

Working on the premise that a business that pays attention to its restrooms is a business that focuses on the customer, Garden Centers of America’s annual award for best bathroom invites garden retailers to submit their most creative and appealing restroom photos and descriptions.

Lowe’s added covered shopping in its plant yard, dramatically expanded its gift shop, and moved its parking lot and entrance from the street-facing front to the side. Take a look at the dramatic transformation!

Modern Homesteading, an exclusive certified dealer program to fast track independent garden centers into the exploding indoor growing […]

Garden Centers of America (GCA) is extending its Early Bird Savings for the Summer Tour in Portland, OR, to June […]

Perhaps our industry has finally reached a point where there’s simply too much work to be done for the number of employees on the payroll.

Countryside Gardens in Hampton, VA, sent out one of the best marketing messages I’ve seen in a long […]

Beginning January 1, 2018, Maryland will ban sales of products containing the neonicotinoid class of pesticides throughout the […]