Cover Story

Staying on Financial Course

Jennifer Zurko

It’s getting harder for greenhouse businesses to acquire—and keep—a steady flow of working capital. How do you ensure that you’re doing the right things to make sure your cash position doesn’t end up sinking the ship?

Culture Notes

Extend Your Profits with Angelonia

Leland Toering

Ball FloraPlant offers five series across multiple habits to fit season-extending angelonia to any program.

Culture Notes

Ideal Companions

Kate Spirgen

Add a tropical touch of texture and color to container combinations with caladiums.

Features

Branching Out with PGRs

Roberto Lopez

PGRs can be used for more than just reducing stem elongation. Here, we’ll explore PGRs that induce lateral branching on crops that don’t branch freely.

Features

Learn from the Best at the 2024 Plug & Cutting Conference

Bill Calkins

Check out a few of the many cutting-edge workshops and sessions on the schedule for this year’s conference.

Features

Mastering Bookings & Contract Growing

Rayne Gibson

A strategic guide for nurseries and greenhouses.

Features

New for You (and Your Customers)

Chris Beytes, Bill Calkins & Jennifer Zurko

Part 1 of our yearly three-part coverage of the California Spring Trials gives you all the highlights in colorful annual flowers and plants for 2025.

Features

Solar Appeal, Part 2

Eric J. Stallknecht, Richard R. Lunt & Erik S. Runkle

The second of a two-part series on the potential of using photovoltaics in greenhouses.

Features

The Hurricane & the Fungi

Chris Beytes

Occasionally, GrowerTalks likes to reveal little-known details about the birth, growth or success of a well-known horticultural business. This month: Premier Tech and how Hurricane Andrew, which hit South Florida, impacted this Canadian company.

Growers Talk Production

A Worthy Investment

Brian Groves

In hindsight some investments are a no brainer. We can all look back and ask ourselves, “Why didn’t we do that sooner?”

GT in Brief

2024 Liberty Hyde Bailey Award Given to Jim Nau

Chris Beytes

This year’s winner of the AHS’s highest honor is the late Jim Nau, who served as the greenhouse, gardens and trials manager at Ball Horticultural Company for 37 years.

GT in Brief

AmericanHort Introduces 2024-2025 Board Members and Executive Officers

Jennifer Zurko

AmericanHort announced the addition of three new industry leaders to its board of directors, along with a new slate of board officers for the coming year.

GT in Brief

Dümmen Orange Update: New Owners, New CEO

Chris Beytes

In late May, it was announced that BC Partners, the current majority shareholders of Dutch-German breeding company Dümmen Orange, has worked a deal with a group of current lenders to take over the business.

GT in Brief

Field Trials With a Dose of Southern Charm

Jennifer Zurko

More than 800 varieties (including 220 combinations and 58 hanging baskets) were on display overlooking part of the 56 total acres of greenhouse you see in the background between two of Young’s Plant Farm’s Auburn, Alabama, locations.

GT in Brief

In Memoriam: Jim Stuppy

Chris Beytes

We’re sorry to have to report the passing of a greenhouse manufacturing icon: James (Jim) C. Stuppy of the well-known, 151-year-old business Stuppy Inc. of Kansas City, Missouri. Jim died peacefully on Sunday, May 19. He was 79.

GT in Brief

On the Move

Jennifer Zurko

American Floral Endowment; Bailey; Ball Seed; Dramm; Eason Horticultural Resources; Envu; Griffin; Mycorrhizal Applications; PanAmerican Seed; Ridder; Star Roses and Plants

GT in Brief

The Gloeckner Foundation Joins with AFE

Jennifer Zurko

The American Floral Endowment (AFE) and the Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation announced a new partnership, joining forces to promote a shared vision of cultivating and funding innovation, advancements, and growth through floriculture research.

GT in Brief

The Latest USDA Stats on Our Industry

Dr. Marvin Miller

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA/NASS) released its Floriculture Crops: 2023 Summary in late May and the numbers appear to support the reflective attitudes many expressed last year.

Guest Column

Hula: The Wide-Bodied Wax Begonia

Lowell Halvorson

Hula’s shining moments come as inputs to containers with large diameters, from 14 in. up to 20 in. These plants bring strength along with their beauty.

Inside Look

Lessons in Metaphors & Idioms

Jennifer Zurko

As I was wrestling the bear that’s become this month’s cover story and learning about the topic of acquiring financing for your business, I was worried that I would struggle making sense of everything. In order to do that I found myself using metaphors and idioms.

JZ on D.C.

AmericanHort Meets with DOL & USDA

Jennifer Zurko

In May, AmericanHort CEO and President Ken Fisher participated in a roundtable discussion with USDA Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack and DOL Acting Secretary Julie A. Su on the recently released H-2A Farmworker Protection Final Rule.

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