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April 2008 issue:

Cover story: Hines Horticulture

Meeting Irrigation Mandates

Seven Questions With Terrain's John Kinsella

Variety Central: Annuals

Understanding Plant Nutrition: Limestone, Calcium and Magnesium

Production Tips For Top Performers: Salvia sylvestris

Special Report: The State Of Sustainability

Online Only: More legendary varieties from Greenhouse Grower's 25th anniversary coverage

Sustainability Special Report Online Only: More from ANLA Management Clinic's panel on the business of sustainability in 2008

Online Only: Variety Central: Even more new annuals varieties

March 2008 issue:

Cover story: Fahr Greenhouses

Bacterial Blight Breakthrough

Troubleshooting Your Spring Crops

Variety Central: Hanging Baskets

Growing Green: Water Soluble’s Place In Sustainability

Production Tips For Top Performers: Chasmanthium latifolium

Understanding Plant Nutrition: Limestone and pH

Online Only: Sustainability Soundoff

Online Only: Francis J. Friedman’s tips on mining the show floor for trends

Online Only: TMC’s Recommended Practices Manual

Online Only: Even more varieties perfect for hanging baskets

February 2008 issue:

Cover story: Green Valley Growers

Production Tips For Top Performers: Geranium "Rozanne"

Variety Central: Blooming Potted Plants

Do Insecticides Affect Plant Growth & Development?

Understanding Plant Nutrition: Media Cation Exchange Capacity

Zeroing In On Invasives

Online Only: More on the types of plastics commonly used in greenhouses

Online Only: Even more blooming potted plant varieties

Online Only: Travel log entries from the U.S. tour group visiting Agrexco growers in Israel

January 2008 issue:

Cover Story: Mercer Botanicals  

Variety Central: Foliage & Tropicals

Understanding Plant Nutrition: An Introduction

Employment Practices Liability

Hort Couture: Plants With Panache

Online Only: Link to Virtual Grower software

Online Only: John Erwin on which bedding plants will flower faster under a higher DLI

Online Only: Accommodating Syndrome audio en Espanol

Online Only: Creative Negotiation Skills

Online Only: Hort Couture's Jim Monroe on design and color trends for 2008

Online Only: List of Hort Couture growers

December 2007 issue:

Cover story: Grower Of The Year: Plug Connection

Moving Plants Without Losing Profits

Outsourcing Transportation And Logistics

Managing Nutrition In Spring Crops

November 2007 issue:

Cover story: N. Casertano Greenhouses & Farms

PGR Update

Maximizing Environmental Controls

Ten Tips For A More Successful Web Site

October 2007 issue:

Cover story: Al's Garden Center

Solving The Marketing Mystery

Eight Questions With Cal Diller

Growing Green: Sustainable Fertilizers And Pest And Disease Control

Online Only: Poinsettia Trials At Kube-Pak

Online Only: University Field Trials

September 2007 issue:

Cover story: White Flower Farm

OFA Short Course Coverage

Here Comes The Cold: Heating Checkup

Growing Green: Impact Of Fungicides On Natural Enemies

Online Only: More Results From Our 2007 Bedding Plant Survey

Online Only: More Photos And Ideas From OFA Short Course

August 2007
Online Only: University Researchers

May 2007

Online Only: Cover stories on Top 100 Growers

Online Only: Top 100 Growers statistics and stories

• Business Tools
• Energy Series: Control Your Energy Costs
• @GG: Your Digital Information Resource
• Allan Armitage's Tips of the Trade
• Delilah Onofrey's Editorials
• Laurie Scullin's Rants & Raves
• Terri W. Starman's Vegetative Annuals Series
• Vinny Naab's Retail Details
• Production Pointers: Terril Nell, C.C. Powell, and others
• On Location/International Coverage

• Cover Stories
• Vernalization Series
• Container Compliance Guide

Business Tools

• 04/06 Growing People: Training Difficult Employees

• 03/06 Growing People: Make Time For Training Sessions
• 02/06 Growing People: Training A Great Sales Team
• 10/05 MSU College Of Knowledge Business Track Debuts
• 09/05 Labor: Keep Worker's Compensation Costs Under Control
• 08/05 Four Steps To Improve ROI
• 06/05 Watch Out For Your Water Supply
• 05/05 Labor: Worker Safety -- Heat Illnesses
• 03/05 OSHA and the Hispanic Workforce -- Are you in sync?

Energy Series

• January '06: Energy Crisis, Jr.-- Necessity's Child
• February '06: Trends In Plug Buying
• March '06: Growing Cooler
• April '06: Federal, State and Local Energy Grants and Incentives
• May '06: Big Solutions From Big Growers
• Mid-May '06: Bells and Whistles: A Dream Greenhouse
• June '06: Maximizing Air Flow & Shading
• July '06: Around the House -- Calculating and Maximizing ROI
• August '06 Don't Fear The Meter
• September '06 Get In The Zone - Maximizing space and time for
  optimum efficiency

@GG

• 09/06 New Web Site Available For Poinsettia Growers
• 07/06 Wink of an Eye: Web Authoring Software Programs
• 01/06 e-Learning @ Horticulture Gardening Institute
• 09/05 Blogging to Grow Your Business
• 08/05 Connecting Growers & Brokers With B2B Software
• 06/05 Ecke Ranch Offers Online Poinsettia Advice
• 05/05 Web-based Survey System for Financial Data Analysis

Allan Armitage's Tips of the Trade

• 09/06 The Saga Of Osteos - I may have been (a little) mistaken
• 08/06 A Great Group Of Plants: Pigeon Berries, a.k.a. Duranta erecta
• 07/06 Trials and Tribulations II (Pack Trials Wrapup)
• 06/06 Trials And Tribulations (Calif. Pack Trials Coverage)
• 05/06 What Are We Going To Do About This?
• 04/06 You Want To Dumb Us Down Even More?
• 03/06 Veronica -- She Gets No Respect
• 02/06 What Are We Growing Out There, Anyway?
• 01/06 On The Meaning Of Tenacity
• 12/05 Greatest Perennials For 2005
• 11/05 Greatest Annuals For 2005
• 10/05 I've Got The Trade Show Blues!
• 09/05 Perennials With Bark
• 08/05 Plant Patents: Every Now and Then, Let's Blame the Crooks
• 07/05 A Coneflower Is Just A Coneflower (unless it's a Mexican hat)
• 06/05 One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor -- Native Plants
• 05/05 On Teaching Floriculture
• 04/05 Superfluous Again, Or Still? Research and the Industry
• 03/05 The New Keep Getting Newer
• 02/05 Boquets By Amateurs: Did Somebody Steal the Flowers?
• 01/05: Holiday Joy and Despair (Horticulturally Speaking)
• 11/04 2004's Classic City Awards: Perennials

Delilah Onofrey's Editorials

• 09/06 Is Your Glass Half Full?
• 08/06 Resurrecting Promotion
• 07/06 Shifting The Demand Curve
• 06/06 Plant Plagiarism: The proliferation of "me-too" varieties
• 05/06 Legal Access to Legal Workers: Keep the pressure on!
• 04/06 The High Price of Free Trade: Which segment is next?
• 03/06 Crunch Time! Late orders and other supply chain scrambles
• 02/06 Scoring Points With Poinsettias: Is the market oversaturated?
• 01/06 Driving Down Distribution Costs: Is cooperation in order?
• 12/05 Growing People: How best to find and train workers
• 11/05 Eastern Performance Trials: Pluses vs. Minuses
• 10/05 America In Bloom Grows Its Sphere Of Influence
• 09/05 East Meets West: Big changes in store at Home Depot (ASBPE Gold Award Winner!)
• 08/05 Growers -- Don't lose your voice! by Laura Drotleff
• 07/05 One for Wal-Mart (The other side of the story)
• 05/05 Singing the Big Box Blues: Struggles with superstores
• 04/05 Don't Take Land Grants for Granted: The decline of Extension
• 03/05 Battle of the Brands II: The consumer branding picture
• 02/05 Daring To Differentiate -- Countering Commodities
• 01/05 Pains By Scan: Risks and Rewards (ASBPE Gold Award Winner!)

Laurie Scullin's Rants And Raves

• 08/06 Mother Nature And Father Time
• 07/06 American Idol and Bedding Plants
• 06/06 Spring Is In The Air (Run for your life--it's giant hailstones!)
• 04/06 Frogs & NASCAR (Getting older and why garden art is OK)
• 02/06 Burgers and Begonias
• 01/06 Location, Location, Location
• 12/04 Hemis And Poinsettias

Vinny Naab's Retail Details

• 09/06 Demystifying Pay-By-Scan
• 07/06 Retail Pricing
• 05/06 Patio Color Is Red Hot At Retail
• 03/06 A Year Of Change (Naab returns to the pages of GG)
• 01/05 The Fall Selling Season
• 11/04 Drivers Wanted!

On Location/International Coverage

• California Pack Trials 06/06 1st Section
• California Pack Trials 06/06 2nd Section
• China FlowerExpo 2006: Chinese Floriculture
• China Hortiflor 2006: Chinese Floriculture
• Amsterdam's Horti Fair 2005 Review
• Building The Orient Express II: Fischer In China
• Building The Orient Express: Fischer In China

Cover Stories

• 07/06 -- D.S. Cole Growers, Loudon, N.H.
• 06/06 -- First Foliage, Homestead, Fla.
• 05/06 -- Top 100 Growers
• 04/06 -- Tayama Greenhouses, Encinitas, Calif.
• 03/06 -- Seacliff Farms, Leamington, Ontario
• 12/04 -- Pleasant View Gardens, Loudon, N.H.
• 11/04 -- Young's Nursery & Greenhouse, Gallatin, Tenn.

Production Pointers

• 07/06 Using Pesticides Effectively
• 12/05 PGRCALC -- Calculate With Confidence
• 12/05 PGR Trials: Taking the mystery out of PGRs
• 12/05 How to Sell More Flowers
• 11/05 Shipping & Retailing: Grower Commitment Required
• 09/05 Shipping Savvy: Focus on shipping to improve plant quality
• 08/05 Grow Plants that Last
• 05/05 Fundamentals of Flowering: Scheduling of Annuals Production
• 04/05 Fundamentals of Flowering: Effects of Day Length on Annuals II
• 03/05 Fundamentals of Flowering: Effects of Day Length on Annuals

Terri W. Starman's Vegetative Annuals Series

• Sutera
• Torenia
• Nemesia
• Braeteantha
• Heliotrope
• Container Gardening

Vernalization Series

• 06/06 Improving Perennial Flowering
• 05/06 Life A fter Cold!
• 03/06 Day-Neutral Vernalization
• 01/06 Vernalization: Life In The Cold
• 10/05 Some Perennials Like It Cold

Container Compliance Guide

• Success Breeds Change

• Overview

• Industry Guide

• Beyond The Basics

• Weigh Not, Want Not

• If The Label Fits
• Directory