Sakata Seed America participated in the American Heart Association’s 8th annual Heart and Stroke Walk to raise funds and awareness for heart disease and stroke. Sakata took home top team and individual honors, with Jamie Kitz of Sakata raising the most funds of any participant and Team Sakata raising the most funds of any team.

Rainbow Wall in Tokyo, Japan, includes Terra Nova Nurseries’ heuchera varieties.

On September 17, a committee of the Seattle City Council endorsed a ban on the purchase and use of neonicotinoid products on city property. The measure includes supportive language for sales and use bans for all use patterns, including plants, seeds or products containing neonicotinoids in the city, and support for a national moratorium on products.

The panel of experts at Greenhouse Grower’s 2014 Top 100 Growers Breakfast offered insight on how the industry is addressing the public scrutiny on neonicotinoids, research that still needs to be done and what growers can do to promote their operations’ responsible practices.

Cuttings producers worldwide are committed to sustainability and producing clean, high-quality young plants.

Ball FloraPlant’s Las Limas farm in Esteli, Nicaragua, is one year away from full production, but sales and quality from the two-year-old facility are right on track.

The 2015 All-America Selections Summer Summit, “The Urban Ag Experience,” will take place Oct. 6-9 in Dallas, Texas. For the first-time ever, the AAS Summer Summit will be held in conjunction with the Home Garden Seed Association’s annual meeting.

Harvest Automation recently released a report on the progress of its HV-100 Robots this summer. The HV-100 Robots have been busy since the company started offering free robot work earlier this year to greenhouses and nurseries.

With its recent purchase of a farm in Colombia, Darwin Perennials is ready to amp up supply of its perennial genetics, to provide growers with tried-and-true varieties and comprehensive production specifications.

The infamous winter of 2013-2014 started the spring season off at a snail’s pace, but once the weather subsided, demand was at a fever pitch.

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Based in California, the Joseph Shinoda Memorial Foundation’s mission is to encourage educational opportunities for young people interested in entering the industry. Since 1965, the foundation has awarded $790,000 to more than 660 undergraduate floriculture students.

Dates are already set for Proven Winners’ 2015 Grand Garden Show after the great response the 2014 show received in late August.