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Inspiring Beautification

Jennifer Polanz

Strategies for helping your local communities strengthen their beautification efforts.

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Bring in the Birds

Andrew Bunting

Here are some suggestions for ideal plants to attract our feathered friends to the yard.

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Bringing Joy Back Into the Business

Megan Taylor Morrison

The six components of a happy workplace.

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Independent Thinking

Chris Beytes, Bill Calkins & Jennifer Zurko

While most any introduction at the California Spring Trials can be sold through most any outlet, we think these new varieties are especially suited to the attention and care they’ll get at IGCs.

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Meet Your Makers

Katie Elzer-Peters

Providing a place for customers to be creative with flowers helps to create a deeper connection and sell more plants.

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Solution for the Silver Tsunami

Bill McCurry

Garden Outfitters is a new company full of familiar faces, providing potential alternatives to traditional garden center ownership.

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The Evolution of Garden Center Food Service

John Stanley, Sid Raisch & Dries Jansen

Garden centers have always been seasonal businesses, with clear peak periods in spring and during Christmas.

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The Power of Beauty

Jennifer Polanz

This year, 2026, has not been a banner year so far, personally

Friel World

Brand New, Brand Old

John Friel

Logos dominate the retail space in boxes and indies alike.

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A Dramm Retirement

Jennifer Polanz

A quick shoutout to Theresa Krejcarek, who retired in May from the Dramm Corporation after 47 years at the company.

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A New Greenhouse Consulting Firm

Jennifer Polanz

Chuck Sierke has a consulting firm, Trans-Sphere Corporation, that offers garden retailers a renovation program that includes multiple phases and can save money while improving existing facilities.

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An Industry Collab for Porch Pots

Jennifer Polanz

M&M Wintergreens Inc. of Cleveland and Oasis Forage Products in Kent, Ohio, just announced they’re collaborating on the new Wintergreens Forage Kit.

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Cut Flower Trial Dates

Lindsay Daschner

Be sure to mark your calendar for a few field trials this summer.

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It’s Magic

Ellen C. Wells

These five products put professional-grade biological tools on the retail shelf and in home gardeners’ toolboxes.

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Pets on the Payroll

Jennifer Polanz

Meet Nova, the newest addition to grower-retailer Ach Nursery.

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They Don’t Look a Day Over …

Ellen C. Wells

National Garden Bureau launched its “America 250 Our Roots” initiative to share the origin stories of its member companies.

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Tops at Chelsea

Ellen C. Wells

Taking home the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year Award is Hosta Red Ninja.

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Wirecutter’s Top Garden Too

Ellen C. Wells

In a Wirecutter piece on garden tools released recently, they asked the landscape teams at some of the nation’s heralded botanic gardens what tools they turn to for various gardening tasks.

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WorryFree: An IGC-Exclusive Brand

Jennifer Polanz

Three of the growers from the Syn-RG collaboration—Prides Corner Farms, Willoway Nurseries and Overdevest Nurseries—have launched a new entity called WorryFree Plants, LLC.

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Dancing With Myself

Amanda Thomsen

It’s public humiliation o’ clock and I want to invite you to play along at home.

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We’re Still in Good Hands

Bill McCurry

“We don’t want people to buy and leave. We want them to hang around, experience the greenhouse joy and think of us as someplace to go for a fun family time.”—Maria Harford, Young Retailer Award finalist

Tech Connection

DIY Tech Troubleshooting

Katie Elzer-Peters

You might have an IT person or a “web guy,” (I’m the “web guy” for a lot of businesses) that can help you when your email stops working or your website goes down, but maybe you don’t.

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