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Connecting the Multi-generational Green Industry
Connecting the Multi-generational Green Industry
Paige Franks
Emotional intelligence across the ages.
Perennials Section: Bulking Best Practices for Perennial Growers
Perennials Section: Bulking Best Practices for Perennial Growers
ThinkPlants Team (Anik Graves, Zoltan Kovacs & Joey Wisema
Bulking is an essential stage of perennial growth. Whether you’re growing first-year flowering perennials or vernalizing and overwintering your crops, developing a healthy root system and vegetative growth (or “bulk”) is necessary to ensure a healthy, even finished crop.
Perennials Section: Cold Has a Purpose
Perennials Section: Cold Has a Purpose
Paul Pilon
Understanding how vernalization and dormancy impact perennial plant quality is critical. Similarly, cold protection strategies can make or break your crop—especially in colder regions.
Perennials Section: Getting Beyond the Juggling Act
Perennials Section: Getting Beyond the Juggling Act
Katie Miller
A case for perennial early season color.
Perennials Section: Managing Weeds in Perennial Production
Perennials Section: Managing Weeds in Perennial Production
Broch Martindale
Weed control in perennial production is both an art and a science.
Perennials Section: Overwintering Checklist
Perennials Section: Overwintering Checklist
Compiled by Bill Calkins
Follow these best practices to optimize your approach to overwintering perennials.
Perennials Section: Overwintering vs. FYF Perennials: What’s Right for Me?
Perennials Section: Overwintering vs. FYF Perennials: What’s Right for Me?
Chris Fifo
Success can be achieved growing perennials traditionally—fall planted and overwintered—or using first-year-flowering strategies. The trick is knowing your crops and leveraging resources.
Perennials Section: Vernalizing Perennials: A Grower's Guide to Successful Overwintering
Perennials Section: Vernalizing Perennials: A Grower's Guide to Successful Overwintering
Drew Koschmann
For many perennial growers, planting late in the summer is a strategic move to meet the high demand of early spring sales. Whether supplying landscapers or filling garden center shelves, the goal remains the same: deliver healthy, robust plants just as customers begin preparing their gardens.
Planning Email Campaigns for the Future
Planning Email Campaigns for the Future
Katie Elzer-Peters & Heather Prince
Act NOW to get spring marketing done.
The Reward is Worth the Wait
The Reward is Worth the Wait
Jeb S. Fields
A look into shrubs hitting the market in 2026 and what it takes to get there.
Through the Pores
Through the Pores
Jeb S. Fields & Kristopher S. Criscione
The last part of our in-depth series on concepts for pore science.
Wave Around the World
Wave Around the World
Sarah Makiejus
We partied in pink across the globe to celebrate 30 years of Wave Petunias.
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Nominate a Young Grower Today!
YGA logo Congrats to the 2025 GrowerTalks/Ball Horticultural Company Young Grower Award winner:
Isabela Chamorro from Mahoney’s Garden Center, Woburn, Massachusetts!

Do you know of an excellent, hard-working professional under the age of 35? You should nominate them for the 2026 GrowerTalks/Ball Horticultural Company Young Grower Award! For the last 21 years, we’ve recognized young horticulturists for standing out from the crowd in this tough business, who—for whatever noble reasons—have chosen to have a career in this industry.

After three finalists are chosen, each is asked to write guest editorials for the June issue of GrowerTalks, gets a free trip to Cultivate’26 and, while they’re in Columbus, attend a special dinner with Anna Ball and other industry luminaries. The winner is announced at the Unplugged event during Cultivate’26, will be the subject of our September issue cover story and serve as one of our judges for next year’s award.



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