Acres & Acres

“Why Bet on Disaster?”

Chris Beytes

Growers of 40 years ago faced the same sorts of economic challenges as you—worse, even—and they came through it.

Cover Story

New Holiday Must-haves

Jennifer Zurko

The newest poinsettia varieties for the 2023 season and beyond.

Culture Notes

Poinsettia Propagation

Gary Vollmer

Key steps to growing poinsettias successfully.

Features

Giving Points a Little Pep

Jennifer Zurko

A few interesting approaches to give poinsettias a little boost.

Features

Just a Pinch

Patrick Youds & Christopher J. Currey

Fine-tuning tabletop poinsettia schedules.

Features

Poinsettia Fertilization Tricks

Lynn Griffith

Some handy tips to keep your crop in tip-top form.

Growers Talk Business

Planning for 2024

Stan Vander Waal

While we’re in season is the perfect time to seek opportunities where you might grow your business or do better in what you’re already doing.

Growers Talk Production

Data-Driven: Empower Your Plants

Stephanie Saccomano

The basic idea is that plants need to be in balance with their environment, and if any one factor is out of sorts, performance will decline.

GT in Brief

Breeder Showcase at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens

Matthew Chappell

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden horticultural staff and volunteers have conducted plant trials throughout the gardens in the zoo for years.

GT in Brief

EPA Proposes Stricter WPS Revisions

Chris Beytes

In February, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule change to the pesticide Application Exclusion Zone (AEZ) requirements of its Agricultural Worker Protection Standards (WPS).

GT in Brief

Flower Fare

Jennifer Zurko

We got a chance to pay a visit to Forget Me Not Farms in early April to chat with Lindsay Daschner in person (and give Tater lots of head pats).

GT in Brief

On The Move

Jennifer Zurko

Ball Horticultural Co.; Certified Roses; Dramm; Ridder; Suntory Flowers; Syngenta

GT in Brief

PPA National Symposium Set for Canada

Matthew Chappell

The 2023 Perennial Plant Association (PPA) National Symposium will take place this year in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

Guest Column

Decoding the E3 Petunia

Lowell Halvorson

You might know the E3 Easy Wave Petunia as “the early one,” however, earliness isn’t the key part of this series.

Guest Column

Innovation in All We Do

Marvin N. Miller

Our industry’s life-changing discoveries have been much more about transitioning how we operate.

Inside Look

You Learn Something New Every Day

Jennifer Zurko

Apparently, all these years of walking into bays full of poinsettias I was surrounded by involucres and never knew it.

JZ on D.C.

Highlights From SAF's 43rd Annual Congressional Action Days

Jennifer Zurko

On March 21, growers, wholesalers, retail florists and others with ties to the industry met with 70 congressional offices in Washington, D.C. during the Society of American Florists 43rd annual Congressional Action Days.

Pest Management

Eretmocerus eremicus: Parasitoid of Whiteflies

Raymond A. Cloyd

Eretmocerus eremicus is widely used by greenhouse producers in the U.S. and Canada to manage whitefly populations on ornamental and vegetable crops.

Pest Management

Whitefly Management Using Banker Plant Systems

Muhammad Z. Ahmed, Cindy McKenzie & Lance S. Osborne

Whitefly natural enemies have been considered relatively promising for biological control, but establishing natural enemies has been the most challenging part of implementing successful biological control programs.

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BioCeres EC

BioSafe Systems LLC

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Cultivate’23

AmericanHort

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Gerbera Garvinea Sweet Joy

HilverdaFlorist BV

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Optimal Growing Medium

Jiffy Group

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Steam-Flo Zone Control

Sioux Corporation

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The Canadian Greenhouse Growers’ Directory & Buyers’ Guide

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