Acres & Acres

Use Your Words

Chris Beytes

French novelist Gustave Flaubert always strove for the “mot juste” and so do I. And so should you.

Cover Story

Locate, Deliberate, Integrate

Jennifer Zurko

Expanding your business doesn’t necessarily have to mean you build a brand-new greenhouse on your property. If you’ve got the will, the want and the resources, you can convert an existing facility from a different location.

Features

AI for Growers: Growing Plants Edition

Katie Elzer-Peters

The second part of using AI in your greenhouse business, this time on the plants themselves.

Features

More Than Just Height Control

Lauren Kilpatrick & Brian A. Krug

Exploring plant growth regulators to increase branching on perennials.

Features

Successfully Chasing the Funding Dream

Mark E. Battersby

Finding the right financing for your business is one of the most important tasks you’ll face. Although financing the growth, expansion—or the survival—of your operation can be a complex affair, funds are available to those willing to comparison shop for lenders, rates and terms.

Features

Tech On Demand Team Profile: Dr. Nathan Jahnke

Bill Calkins

This four-part series will highlight the four members of Ball Seed’s Tech Team and the stories of how they came into horticulture.

Growers Talk Business

Collect Diamonds, Not Rocks

Art Parkerson

You’re surrounded by rocks. Some of those rocks—who knows which ones or how many there are—only look like regular rocks. But they aren’t ordinary rocks; they’re actually diamonds.

Growers Talk Production

Lessons Learned in 20 Years

Austin Bryant

I’d like to share a few things that have been some of the biggest achievements and let-downs over my first 20 years in this industry.

GT in Brief

Glow-in-the-Dark Flowers Get USDA OK

Chris Beytes

This novel introduction, which will be sold under the name “Firefly Petunias,” is coming from the synthetic biology startup Light Bio of Ketchum, Idaho.

GT in Brief

HI Hydrangea URCs Now Available Through Express Seed

Jennifer Zurko

Potted plant grower Creekside Greenhouse, based in Ontario, Canada, recently announced a partnership to develop new varieties and sell unrooted cuttings of the HI Hydrangea line through Express Seed.

GT in Brief

In Memoriam: David Lemon

Chris Beytes

David Lemon, one of our industry’s most well-known and prolific flower breeders, passed away February 10 at the age of 89.

GT in Brief

Putting the Special in Specialty Cuts

Jennifer Zurko

Ball SB breeds, produces and sells specialty cut plant material all around the world all year round direct from their grower partners in Colombia, Ecuador, Central America and Kenya.

GT in Brief

Skagit Gardens to Close

Chris Beytes

Skagit Horticulture LLC announced in February that it would be discontinuing operations April 7, 2024.

GT in Brief

White’s to Close Their Wholesale Operation

Chris Beytes

White’s Nursery & Greenhouse—founded by one of the most venerated individuals in floriculture, Norm White, and run today by Norm and his daughter, Dana, and son, Tal—is closing.

Guest Column

The Strengths Behind Phlox subulata

Lowell Halvorson

Among the perennials, Phlox subulata often opens the category for early spring sales with vibrant color on the heels of pansies and forsythia.

Inside Look

Home Sweet Greenhouse

Jennifer Zurko

On converting or integrating an established greenhouse facility, I wondered if it was similar to buying a house.

JZ on D.C.

AmericanHort Shifts & Expands Advocacy Team

Jennifer Zurko

In February, AmericanHort announced some changes to its advocacy team. Matt Mika is now VP of Advocacy and Government Affairs, assuming the leadership of the organization’s Washington, D.C.-based advocacy team, transitioning that role from long time industry advocate Craig Regelbrugge.

Paul's Pointers

Is Something Bugging You?

Paul Pilon

Pests are always a potential threat to your crops, but with good management practices, they don’t have to bug you.

Pest Management

Bacillus-based Biopesticides

A.R. Chase

Using Bacillus-based organic fungicide/bactericides can be as effective as conventional products for Botrytis, powdery mildew and rust.

Pest Management

Resistance Management

Dr. Raymond A. Cloyd

Which strategy is better—pesticide rotations or pesticide mixtures?

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3-ft. Mini Flower Tower

Eckert’s Greenhouse

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Corvus Drones

Corvus Drones BV

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Firefly Petunia

Light Bio Inc.

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Frostkiss Hellebores

Pacific Plug & Liner

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Seed Packaging

Ball Seed

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Steam-Flo Zone Control Kit

Sioux Corporation