During the recent Tropical Plants Industry Exhibition (TPIE) in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, the Garden Center Group embarked on a search for the coolest new products for garden retailers. Here’s what they discovered.

Tropicals, foliage, and succulents may be the way to new consumers’ hearts, based on the cool ideas, products, […]

In Greenhouse Grower’s annual State Of The Industry Survey, we asked how your operation is living the GROW initiative’s five pillars: cultivate new customers, demand quality, drive consumer success, invest in the industry, and sharpen business management. Here is what you had to say.

Stores with most of their gross sales coming from plants tend to think those where plants generate less than half of annual sales are … not quite legitimate. So we took a closer look at what kind of differences we could find between the two groups, and discovered several surprising results.

The New Mexico-based garden retailer invites all its vendors to meet its customers one day a year, and give customers access to deeply knowledgeable representatives, and giving vendors a chance to meet the public in a way not usually available to them.

We have an annual work rhythm that I think threatens to steal the joy we find in our industry. Our marathon run of extreme hours during the spring rush must stop.

Costa Farms was the night’s biggest winner during an awards gala presented by the International Association of Horticultural […]

Costa Farms presented the 2016 Season Premier at its 2-acre Trial Gardens in Miami, FL, in the third […]

During the 2014 Greenhouse Grower GROW Summit, Susie Raker of C. Raker & Sons made a comment that hit […]

In July 2014, Hoerr Nursery opened a new department: Tributes and Memorials. “We were approached by John, an employee’s brother, […]

Danziger is continuing to expand its portfolio of products to the U.S. market with the addition of poinsettia cuttings of Beekenkamp’s varieties.

Garden retailers are often called upon to perform tasks far outside what they’re comfortable doing, from taxes to merchandising […]

It takes a hardy plant to perform well in the windy and unpredictable upper Midwest states. Take a look at the plants that rose to the top of the pack in trail settings in North Dakota, western Minnesota and northern Iowa.