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July 2025 Issue
Vol. 89 No. 3
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AFE-Funded Research Helps Growers Profit
AFE-Funded Research Helps Growers Profit
Julie Martens Forney
Did you know the roots of many practices you use daily in your greenhouse are anchored in AFE-funded research? The American Floral Endowment partners with growers to chase down answers to real-world problems with research that’s focused on providing solutions for success.
Avoiding the Leadership Trap
Avoiding the Leadership Trap
Rayne Gibson
Helping your employees understand why you’re doing something instead of just telling them what to do will allow them to be more productive and empower them to be better problem-solvers.
Behind the Business: A Plain Black Wrapper
Behind the Business: A Plain Black Wrapper
Chris Beytes
Occasionally, GrowerTalks likes to reveal little-known details about the birth, growth or success of a well-known horticultural business. This month, two important stories (and one fun one) from HIP Labels, which is celebrating 25 years of supplying hang tags, stake tags, wooden tags, pot wraps, retail POP and other printed products primarily to the nursery side of the industry—growers of woody ornamentals, roses, perennial and the like.
Expand Your Candidate Pool
Expand Your Candidate Pool
Todd Downing
Behaviors predict future success
Protecting Your Business From Threats
Protecting Your Business From Threats
Dan Zastava
Cybersecurity for greenhouse growers.
Quality Over Quantity
Quality Over Quantity
Chris Beytes, Bill Calkins & Jennifer Zurko
The first part of our coverage of the California Spring Trials includes tons of new annuals for the 2026 season.
The Benefits of Infertile Pennisetum
The Benefits of Infertile Pennisetum
Kerstin Poehlmann
Why Emerald Coast Growers makes a good thing better.
The End of One Season Means Sanitation for the Next
The End of One Season Means Sanitation for the Next
George Grant & Tanner Bailey
Sanitation tips and strategies that can help to bolster your inter-season sanitation approach or cover areas commonly overlooked that may harbor pests between seasons.
Through the Pores
Through the Pores
Jeb S. Fields & Kristopher S. Criscione
Part 2 in our in-depth series on concepts for pore science.
Your Seed & Ball Seed
Your Seed & Ball Seed
Jim Kennedy
Ball Seed continues to invest in seed and service.
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Who will be this year’s Young Grower winner?
YGA logo We’ll be awarding this year’s GrowerTalks/Ball Horticultural Company Young Grower Award at the Unplugged event during Cultivate’25. If you’re heading to Columbus, make some time to join us Monday night to see who will be on the cover of our September issue. There will be networking and your first drink is free!

WHEN: Monday, July 14 at 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Gaswerks
487 Park Street, Columbus, Ohio

Finalists for the 2025 GrowerTalks/Ball Horticultural Company Young Grower Award:
Isabela Chamorro, Mahoney’s Garden Center, Woburn, MA
Daniel Villegas, Van Belle Nursery, Abbotsford, BC
Ginger Thurston, Spring Meadow Nursery, Grand Haven, MI




An extra special thanks goes to Ball Horticultural Company, BASF and AmericanHort for sponsoring this year’s award!