Acres & Acres

Math vs. Magic

Chris Beytes

Deliver magic and you’ll always be in demand.

Cover Story

Highlights From the Winter Shows

Jennifer Polanz & Chris Beytes

What we saw that caught our eye at the first industry events of the year.

Features

Beyond Sufficiency

Patrick Veazie, Kristin Hicks, Jennifer Bolt & Brian Whipker

A new era of plant nutrition diagnostics.

Features

Building Trust

Rayne Gibson

How to be indispensable to your customers.

Features

Focus on What They Do Best

Neal Glatt

A strengths-based approach to higher production.

Features

From Boomers to Gen Z: The Benefits That Win Them Over

Todd Downing

The last of a three-part series about the multi-generational workforce focuses on the ancillary benefits that are the most important to each group.

Features

The History of Growing Media in North America: 1900-1950

Dr. Brian E. Jackson

This is the first of a five-part series highlighting key advancements in growing media and container production of horticultural crops in the U.S

Features

Woody Plants for Cut Flowers

Katie Elzer-Peters

I can’t be the only one who’s noticed that there are cut flower farms sprouting everywhere—from larger enterprises to enterprising homeowners, tended by experienced growers and newbies alike. The big growth in U.S. flower farming isn’t just under glass. In fact, the explosive growth is happening outdoors—including, yes, in your neighbor’s backyard.

Growers Talk Business

Living With the Noise

Susie Raker

Anxiety doesn’t automatically mean inaction.

Growers Talk Production

Springtime Reminders From 2000s Tunes

Tabitha Samuels

Many of the songs from the Top Hits of 2006 playlist made me think of things I needed to do at work the next day.

GT in Brief

Commercial Greenhouses: A History

Chris Beytes

At the Westlands Museum in Honselersdijk, in the heart of the Dutch greenhouse industry, you can walk up and touch the history of the modern commercial greenhouse.

GT in Brief

In Memoriam: Gordie Bailey

Chris Beytes

Gordon “Gordie” Bailey, Jr., one of the third-generation leaders of well-known Bailey Nurseries in Minnesota, passed away January 29 at his home in Newport, Minnesota, at the age of 90 after a 70-year career with the family business.

GT in Brief

In Memoriam: Ludwig Kientzler

Chris Beytes

A pioneer of international floriculture and the vegetative plant market, Ludwig Kientzler—third-generation patriarch of his family’s business, Kientzler Young Plants—passed away January 4 at the age of 79.

GT in Brief

Marshall Dirks Retires From Proven Winners

Chris Beytes

Marshall Dirks, who for 27 years has been one of the most aggressive and innovative plant marketers in the business, has retired from Proven Winners.

GT in Brief

On the Move

Jennifer Zurko

BioWorks; McHutchison; Oasis Grower Solutions

GT in Brief

Smith Gardens is the Newest Addition to Hoffmann’s Hort Portfolio

Jennifer Zurko

A couple of weeks ago, Smith Gardens, a fourth-generation greenhouse operation based in the Pacific Northwest, announced that private equity firm Hoffmann Family of Companies had acquired a majority interest in the business.

Guest Column

Growing Plants & Myself

Michele Sarti

If 10 years ago you would have told me that I would be doing nursery trade shows, where you have to meet people and talk—essentially be “on” all day—I would have told you that you were crazy.

Guest Column

The Buzz on Elegance

Lowell Halvorson

Last fall, the internet lit up when videos and posts of the innovative new pansy, Elegance, began to appear on social media.

Inside Look

The Past, Very Much Like the Present

Jennifer Zurko

???????Looking through old issues of GrowerTalks shows how much has actually stayed the same.

JZ on D.C.

Jennifer Zurko

Funding Fight Over ICE Practices Could Disrupt Seasonal Worker Processing

Pest Management

Improve Vinca Production With Effective Management of Phytophthora Blight

Charles Krasnow, Ph.D.

Annual vinca (Catharanthus roseus), also called Madagascar periwinkle, is a popular bedding plant grown throughout the United States.

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Ball Seed Technical Services

Ball Seed

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Fully automated powder coating facility

Prospiant Inc.

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Koumy (Cyclamen coum) and Lify (Cyclamen hederifolium)

Morel

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SF-100

Sioux Corporation

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Soiree Kawaii mini vinca series

Suntory Flowers Ltd.

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Vykenda insecticide/miticide

Syngenta