Acres & Acres

Observations from Cultivate’24

Chris Beytes

All in all, Cultivate’24 was an outstanding event, full of education and shopping opportunities. But, most of all, so was the networking.

Cover Story

Walkin’ in a Woody Wonderland

Dr. Jeb Fields

The newest shrubs and trees you should be adding to your inventory for your retail and landscaper customers.

Culture Notes

Tissue Culture Echinacea

Chris Fifo

Best practices for propagation success.

Features

Emerald Coast Growers Expands Infertile Miscanthus Collection

Kerstin Poehlmann

Miscanthus Morning Sun joins the lineup for 2024/2025.

Features

Get Ready! 2024 Plug & Cutting Conference

Bill Calkins

Cutting-edge strategies and technologies for young plant producers will be on display in Orlando this September.

Features

Perennials for the Picking

Chris Beytes, Bill Calkins, Paul Pilon & Jennifer Zurko

The next installment of our Spring Trials coverage is all about perennials.

Features

Sales Bridge Building

Katie Elzer-Peters

Crossing the chasm between fax machines and online availability.

Features

Testing Nursery Media

Lynn Griffith

A deep dive into media testing in two parts.

Features

Trendy Plants

Rayne Gibson

A guide to introducing new items into production.

Growers Talk Business

Widgets? Yes. Commodities? Nope.

Art Parkerson

I can think of a worse word than widget that I hear far too many growers use: commodity.

Growers Talk Production

Hurricane Worries: Be Prepared!

Austin Bryant

It’s nice to review other’s checklists to see if anything might apply to your own. Or this could be a great blueprint for starting your own.

GT in Brief

Ball Seed Partners with TTA to Distribute the New CuttingEdge Machine

Jennifer Zurko

Ball Seed announced a distribution partnership with technology provider TTA to launch the company’s new CuttingEdge automated sticking machine for planting rooted and unrooted cuttings to the North American market.

GT in Brief

BFG Announces Acquisition, Brand Refresh & New Sales Leadership

Jennifer Zurko

BFG announced that it has acquired VG Supply, a distributor of lawn and garden and outdoor living supplies to customers in the upper Midwest.

GT in Brief

Curoplant Company Ltd. Changes Name to Bloomin’ Easy Plants Inc.

Jennifer Zurko

Bloomin’ Easy announced the legal name change of its parent company from Curoplant Company Ltd. to Bloomin’ Easy Plants, Inc.

GT in Brief

My First Peat Bog

Chris Beytes

This is the 600-acre “President Ouest” (West) peat bog of Premier Tech, located adjacent to their headquarters in Rivière-du-Loup, about two hours northeast of Quebec, Canada.

GT in Brief

On the Move

Jennifer Zurko

Ball Seed; Dümmen Orange; Must Have Perennials; Northwest Nursery Buyers Association; Profile Products

GT in Brief

Selecta Acquires Whetman Plants

Chris Beytes

German flower breeder Selecta One is taking on Whetman Plants International of Exeter, United Kingdom.

GT in Brief

UF Updates Back Pocket Grower

JC Chong

The University of Florida (UF) Extension and FreshLearn have released an updated version of its free website, Back Pocket Grower.

Guest Column

Making Coin with Monardas

Lowell Halvorson

Shorter heights, more colors and stronger disease resistance has strengthened monarda’s appeal, along with deer and rabbit resistance.

JZ on D.C.

FY2025 LHHS Subcommittee Markups

Jennifer Zurko

The subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies conducted a markup of the Fiscal Year 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.

Paul's Pointers

Watering is an Art

Paul Pilon

Like fine art that draws upon various principles and is highly subjective, irrigation also has certain fundamentals growers must follow, but the delivery of water and how to manage watering crops is highly subjective.

Pest Management

Red-Headed Flea Beetle Management in Container Nurseries

Danny Lauderdale & Steven Frank

The red-headed flea beetle (RHFB), Systena frontalis, is a serious pest of broadleaf ornamental plants in nurseries.

Pest Management

Upward & Downward

Dr. Raymond A. Cloyd

A deep dive into Kontos and Endeavor systemic insecticides.

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Annual Thrive Booklet

Ball Landscape

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Floxcor Fungicide

Corteva Agriscience

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Gothic Pro Greenhouse

GrowSpan Greenhouse Structures

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Helping Growers Reach Their Maximum

Legacy Labor Inc.

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Roll-Air Greenhouse

Rovero Greenhouses

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TopFlor & A-Rest

SePRO Corporation