Acres & Acres

Washtub or Teaspoon?

Chris Beytes

Uncertainty isn’t a signal to wait—it’s a cue to act. While others clutch their teaspoons, grab your washtub.

Cover Story

Modernizing the Classics

Story & Photos by Chris Beytes, Bill Calkins & Jennifer Zurko

Plant breeders and suppliers continue their strong focus on perennials, so the second part of our coverage of the California Spring Trials features many exciting new introductions in this category.

Culture Notes

The Surprise Behind Prickly Pear

Lowell Halvorson

It’s both surprisingly beautiful and a surprise because you don’t expect cactus as display color. But there it is.

Features

Connecting the Multi-generational Green Industry

Paige Franks

Emotional intelligence across the ages.

Features

Perennials Section: Bulking Best Practices for Perennial Growers

ThinkPlants Team (Anik Graves, Zoltan Kovacs & Joey Wisema

Bulking is an essential stage of perennial growth. Whether you’re growing first-year flowering perennials or vernalizing and overwintering your crops, developing a healthy root system and vegetative growth (or “bulk”) is necessary to ensure a healthy, even finished crop.

Features

Perennials Section: Cold Has a Purpose

Paul Pilon

Understanding how vernalization and dormancy impact perennial plant quality is critical. Similarly, cold protection strategies can make or break your crop—especially in colder regions.

Features

Perennials Section: Getting Beyond the Juggling Act

Katie Miller

A case for perennial early season color.

Features

Perennials Section: Managing Weeds in Perennial Production

Broch Martindale

Weed control in perennial production is both an art and a science.

Features

Perennials Section: Overwintering Checklist

Compiled by Bill Calkins

Follow these best practices to optimize your approach to overwintering perennials.

Features

Perennials Section: Overwintering vs. FYF Perennials: What’s Right for Me?

Chris Fifo

Success can be achieved growing perennials traditionally—fall planted and overwintered—or using first-year-flowering strategies. The trick is knowing your crops and leveraging resources.

Features

Perennials Section: Vernalizing Perennials: A Grower's Guide to Successful Overwintering

Drew Koschmann

For many perennial growers, planting late in the summer is a strategic move to meet the high demand of early spring sales. Whether supplying landscapers or filling garden center shelves, the goal remains the same: deliver healthy, robust plants just as customers begin preparing their gardens.

Features

Planning Email Campaigns for the Future

Katie Elzer-Peters & Heather Prince

Act NOW to get spring marketing done.

Features

The Reward is Worth the Wait

Jeb S. Fields

A look into shrubs hitting the market in 2026 and what it takes to get there.

Features

Through the Pores

Jeb S. Fields & Kristopher S. Criscione

The last part of our in-depth series on concepts for pore science.

Features

Wave Around the World

Sarah Makiejus

We partied in pink across the globe to celebrate 30 years of Wave Petunias.

Growers Talk Business

A Peek Behind My MASC

Art Parkerson

In case you haven’t heard, just about every ornamental nursery and greenhouse in the USA just had a pile of cash dropped in their laps, all thanks to the USDA’s Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crop (MASC) program.

Growers Talk Production

You’re Not Born With Leadership—It’s Developed!

Austin Bryant

Developing leadership skills can be hard—just as hard as breaking old bad habits and replacing them with better ones—but that’s exactly what you’re doing.

GT in Brief

22-acre Greenhouse Collapses in the Netherlands

Chris Beytes

If you search online for “Dutch greenhouse collapse,” you can find frightening security camera footage of the moment this giant glass tomato range collapsed, pushed by strong winds and weakened by workers who’d removed some structural beams to make room for a new curtain system.

GT in Brief

AmericanHort Invites You to Talk to Sage

Jeb Fields

AmericanHort has announced Sage, their new AI-powered assistant designed to help you navigate AmericanHort’s extensive library of resources.

GT in Brief

Floragard Growing Media Now Available in the U.S.

Jennifer Zurko

Floragard, a long-time name in the German horticulture industry, is now officially registered in the U.S. market and ready to supply high-performance soil mixes.

GT in Brief

Happy 40th, Vis Seed!

Chris Beytes

Vis Seed Company is celebrating 40 years as a family business.

GT in Brief

Jose Smith Jr. Named President of Costa Farms

Chris Beytes

Jose “Joche” Smith Jr., son of Jose and Maria Smith, co-owners and co-builders of Costa Farms of Miami, has just been named president of the business as part of the leadership transition process.

GT in Brief

LiveTrends Earns Top Target Vendor Award

Chris Beytes

Target has named LiveTrends the 2024 Food & Beverage Business Partner of the Year.

GT in Brief

New GrowWise Smart Spectrum From Signify Boosts Crop Growth Up to 6%

Jennifer Zurko

Signify unveiled the Philips GrowWise smart spectrum—an innovative algorithm designed to automatically optimize horticultural LED lighting based on real-time sunlight irradiation.

GT in Brief

New Private Group for Container Nurseries

Chris Beytes

Next Level Nursery Group is a brand-new paid-membership “leadership community” designed to help container nurseries “reach the next level,” as the name implies.

GT in Brief

On the Move

Jennifer Zurko

Ball Horticultural Company/Ball Seed/Darwin Perennials; Ball FloraPlant; BioSafe Systems; Four Star Greenhouse; HilverdaFlorist; McHutchison

GT in Brief

Save the Date for the Northeast Greenhouse Conference

Jennifer Zurko

The Northeast Greenhouse Conference & Expo will be back in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, November 12-13, 2025.

GT in Brief

Syngenta Flowers Partners With Tapp

Jennifer Zurko

Syngenta Flowers announced their partnership with Tapp to replace current single-use plastic data loggers with Tapp-paper data loggers.

Inside Look

Easter Eggs, Breadcrumbs & Golden Nuggets

Jennifer Zurko

How often do we put Easter eggs throughout GrowerTalks and Green Profit?

JZ on D.C.

Grow Influence Where It Matters: Invite Your Member of Congress for a Visit

Jennifer Zurko

Most elected officials have limited knowledge of the horticulture industry—what we grow, how we operate and the challenges we face.

Paul's Pointers

Summertime: It’s Exponential

Paul Pilon

Although I think you deserve a break and suggest you find time for relaxation with what’s left of this summer, I also encourage you to not become complacent and be aware of how challenging summer production can be.

Pest Management

Target Scale Insect Crawlers to Prevent Sticky Situations

JC Chong & Zee Ahmed

There are about 1,100 scale insect species in North America and each feeds on one or more plant species, and many of these plant species are what we grow.

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