Cover Story

South Street Gardens’ Design-Forward Debut

Dave Williams

Garden Center Consultants partners David Williams and Erik Dietl-Friedli worked with the Bruin family on their new retail venture, and gave us an inside look at the thought and care that went into the design. Here’s their story.

Features

A New Bloom for Retail

Clint Albin

Open AI’s Instant Checkout comes to the garden. What it can mean for you.

Features

Connection Over Consumption

Jennifer Polanz

Check out the highlights from this year’s Garden Media Group Garden Trends Report.

Features

Digging the Dark

Andrew Bunting

Choosing the right selections for deep, and in some cases dry, shade.

Features

New Finds for 2026

Jennifer Polanz

There’s always something new to see at the distributor shows, including these products seen at BFG in Cleveland.

Features

Pick Your Vibe

Jennifer Polanz

This year’s Garden Center Group Fall Event retail tour featured five very different garden centers around the Raleigh, North Carolina area. See what makes each of them unique.

Features

Stuff We Love (’25 Edition)

Compiled by Jennifer Polanz

Every year Ball Publishing editors highlight plants, products and concepts that made an impact. Here’s what we loved.

Features

What’s Frost Seeding?

Wendy Komancheck

Learn more about this potential option for improving lawns during a time that isn’t typically lawn care season.

First

A New Normal?

Jennifer Polanz

We may be in a new normal and it can be hard to adjust to those outside pressures.

Friel World

That’s a Lot of Candles

John Friel

A couple of months ago This Space profiled a Montana IGC that opened in 1896. But I didn’t need to leave the East Coast to help celebrate a green business that’s significantly older.

Front Lines

Dishing Up the Holidays

Jennifer Polanz

Let’s take it inside for this month and feature a dish garden for the holidays.

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Happy Retirement, Ron!

Jennifer Polanz

From everyone here at Green Profit magazine, I’d like to wish Dramm Retail Director of Sales and Marketing Ron Greening a happy retirement after more than 35 years with the company.

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Monrovia’s Take on Garden Trends

Ellen C. Wells

Their trends analysis is based on their consumer research with more than 1,400 homeowners and also on media, consumer behavior and the design, food and art industries.

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Pets on the Payroll

Jennifer Polanz

Everyone, meet Olive.

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Roses Rewarded

Jennifer Polanz

Here are the 2026 AGRS winners (all are Regional Choice Winners).

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The Year of...

Ellen C. Wells

National Garden Bureau (NGB) announced in September its featured crops for their “Year of” program.

Kiss My Aster

Can I Ask You a Question?

Amanda Thomsen

The newest thing I’ve taken a magnifying glass to is when people ask questions without curiosity.

Profit

“Frank” Advice to Remember

Bill McCurry

Rather than being frustrated at his accountant, he was grateful for the man’s understanding of Frank’s personality at that time and his wisdom in helping Frank discover the blindnesses masking him from the truth.

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