Cover Story

The Container Evolution

Jennifer Polanz

There’s a variety of unique options available now for consumers looking for indoor and outdoor containers, from lightweight to durable and eco-friendly.

Features

5 Strategies for Thriving in 2025

Ben Futa

As our business, Botany, plans for an uncertain year in 2025, we’re leaning into who we are: local and independent.

Features

Controlling Visual Energy Via Form

Dr. Richard Ludwig

We all love the choosing plants part of landscaping, but here we dive into how the form of those plants impacts the design.

Features

Creative Combos

Jennifer Polanz

Wow your customers with new upright and hanging basket combos for 2025!

Features

Embracing Technology and Sustainability for Growth

Aviva LeShaw

Garden retailers have a unique opportunity to blend tradition with innovation, creating spaces and experiences that resonate with modern consumers.

Features

More Plants, Less Lawn

Kathy Jentz

Garden retailers can increase plant sales by encouraging customers to methodically reduce their lawn space and create more room for groundcovers and planting beds. And now there’s even a day to celebrate the act.

First

Connecting the Dots

Jennifer Polanz

Sometimes what it takes is connecting those dots about why a product may cost a little more.

Friel World

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da

John Friel

“Waiting on a hurricane is like being stalked by a turtle.” —Cheri Markowitz, Emerald Coast Growers

Front Lines

Forage’s Mother’s Day Kit

Jennifer Polanz

While at the Global Produce & Floral Show last year, I saw a unique kit introduced for 2025 under OASIS’ Forage brand.

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Martha Gets a Rose

Chris Beytes

Star Roses and Plants and French rose breeder Meilland, has allowed their Jean de La Fontaine rose to be launched in North America by Star under the name Martha Stewart.

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Monrovia’s Consumer Trends Data

Jennifer Polanz

Every year Monrovia conducts consumer research to get at the heart of why they garden, what their challenges are and what brings them to the garden center.

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New Plant Support Line

Ellen C. Wells

Houseplants are beautiful things—until they start going rogue, dangling where they shouldn’t dangle and such.

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Pinterest's "Bold" Predictions

Ellen C. Wells

The Pinterest Predicts trend that most applies to us is Terra Futura.

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Summer Voyage

Jennifer Polanz

We’ll be running container combo ideas from partner members of National Garden Bureau.

Kiss My Aster

Flaming Tidbits

Amanda Thomsen

I don’t have a full, cohesive column to give you, but there are lots of little, bite-sized things going on.

Profit

What Are Your Customers Hearing?

Bill McCurry

Consider what’s said at checkout. Does it create a warm, encouraging experience or is it a cold transaction?

Tech Connection

5 Simple Tech Fixes for 2025

Katie Elzer-Peters

I’m nothing if not practical, so these five tips are meant to help make your business run more smoothly this year.

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