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If You Show It, They May Come

John Friel

Trade show moments aren’t always the kind you can bullet-point in a brochure.

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Moons, Mulligans & Meetings

John Friel

Cultivate and the comparatively tiny PPA Symposium both bore out the words of nurseryman Alan Jones. “There aren’t many industries that will share information about what you do and how you do it,” Alan said. “Your major competitor can be one of your best friends.”

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Of Gifts & Gardeners

John Friel

With power tools, for yourself or as gifts, don’t cheap out.

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A Practical Maverick

John Friel

We all have a river. We all live downstream.

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Ferns & Terns

John Friel

We green industry types are prone to a benign occupational hazard: wherever we are, we ogle the local flora, in nature or in pots with price tags.

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New Ground

John Friel

… speaker Kelly Dodson bestowed well-earned kudos on a favorite public garden near Philadelphia: “Chanticleer is a horticultural Hogwarts, staffed by wizards and sorcerers.”

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Flower Power Rides Again

John Friel

Is there another field where art and science are so inextricable?

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Beaks & Bucks

John Friel

Gardeners hang up their gloves in fall, but birders know no season.

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Wet Enough For Ya?

John Friel

Recently departed and utterly unmourned, our 2018 was not a normal year. Had the Times Square New Year’s ball dropped here instead, it would’ve splashed down like an Apollo capsule.

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True Colors: Whose Hues to Choose?

John Friel

We are, increasingly, slaves to color, and influencers everywhere pay rapt attention to what new hues spew from the world’s paint guns, looms, cosmetics mills and kilns.