Acres & Acres

Consider the Tulip

Chris Beytes

The tulip flower has the most universally recognized shape and is one of our oldest commercial flowering crops.

Cover Story

Forthcoming Foes

Jennifer Zurko

This year’s top insects and diseases and how to handle them, including a new one to watch out for.

Culture Notes

Time to Smell the Roses!

Delilah Onofrey

Growing Brindabella Roses is easy and matches production practices for modern, vigorous shrub roses.

Features

Eyes Mandatory, Degree Optional

Sylvia Schaap

Identifying insect and disease issues in-house.

Features

Staying on Top of Tospoviruses

Steven Arthurs & Kevin M. Heinz

Beware of these diseases in your bedding plants.

Features

Step 2: The Discovery Process

Dean Bemis

The second step in effective salesmanship? Discovering what people need. Part 2 of a six-part series.

Features

Substrates International

Dr. Brian E. Jackson

European and North American wood fiber products and perspectives.

Features

The 1-2 Pest Punch

Sandra Sleezer

Strategies for managing and reducing the likelihood of pesticide resistance.

Features

The Biochar Mix

Jennifer Duffield White

Making sense of a complex soil additive.

Features

The Care & Feeding of BCAs

Allison Westbrook

Biocontrols are not all the same, and if you don’t know the exact requirements for each organism you bring into your greenhouse, you can end up with a fridge full of dead bugs.

Features

Where Are You Growing Botrytis?

Nathan Jahnke & John M. Dole

Taking steps during propagation and shipping can ensure you don’t have the perfect storm of conditions for this disease to show up.

Growers Talk Business

How to Hire Mary Poppins

Art Parkerson

When's the last time you found someone capable of turning everything around with just a spoonful of sugar?

Growers Talk Production

There’s a Bug on My Plant!

Sylvia Schaap

What we really need is growers to communicate what we’re attempting with IPM to the general public.

Growing With Griffin

Biocontrol Programs & Pesticides: A Place for Both?

Rick Yates

Growers who are committed to biocontrol programs utilizing BCAs (biological control agents) have typically made a conscious decision to reduce or eliminate pesticide usage, so why even consider integrating pesticides?

GT in Brief

AFE Accepting Applications for 2018 Scholarships

Jennifer Zurko

Applications are now being accepted for more than 20 different scholarships through the American Floral Endowment (AFE).

GT in Brief

Costa Farms Acquires Green Leaf Nursery

Chris Beytes

The news has just come out that Costa is buying a competing Homestead foliage grower, Green Leaf Nursery.

GT in Brief

Dramm Offers VideoChat Service Team: For Service and Repair

Jennifer Zurko

To help DIYers service their Dramm Sprayers, the company is now offering VideoChat with their service team to help diagnose and suggest repairs via Skype and FaceTime.

GT in Brief

Dümmen Orange Taking Applications for the Dr. P. Allen Hammer Scholarship

Jennifer Zurko

Dümmen Orange has launched the search for candidates in the second year of The Dr. P. Allen Hammer Scholarship.

GT in Brief

GROWS No More

Ellen C. Wells

In early February, New England GROWS’ board of directors unanimously decided to end its annual trade show for the horticultural industry.

GT in Brief

Happy Retirement to David Steiner

Chris Beytes

David is retiring from The Blackmore Company, his only place of employment since September 1977, when he was a fresh-faced college graduate.

GT in Brief

HRI’s Research Projects

Ellen C. Wells

The research arm of AmericanHort just announced they’ll be supporting 10 projects for a total of $232,000 for this year.

GT in Brief

In Memoriam: Gordon Elsbury

Chris Beytes

One of Indiana's outstanding growers, Gordon Elsbury, passed away February 2 after suffering a heart attack. He was 75.

GT in Brief

On The Move

Jennifer Zurko

Eason Horticultural Resources; MicroGrow Greenhouse Control Systems; RainSoil; Terra Nova Nurseries

GT in Brief

Segovis Fungicide Now Available in California and New York

Jennifer Zurko

Greenhouse and nursery growers in California and New York now have access to Segovis fungicide, a recent innovation from Syngenta for controlling downy mildew and Phytophthora diseases.

GT in Brief

Taiwanese Dendrobium Imports Ok’d by APHIS

Chris Beytes

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GT in Brief

Thanks to Irma, Caladiums Supply is Tight

Chris Beytes

Hurricane Irma didn’t just flatten greenhouses, shadehouses and crops; she also flooded the caladium fields of Central Florida, where most of the world’s caladiums come from.

GT in Brief

Tulip Mania 2.0

Chris Beytes

Journalists from nine different countries get up close and educated about tulips (and several other bulb genera) with the staff of VWS, an importer and exporter of flower bulbs from Broek op Langedijk, the Netherlands.

GT in Brief

Two Industry Professionals Elected to 2018 NCNLA Board of Directors

Jennifer Zurko

At its 2018 Annual Meeting held during Green & Growin’ 18 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the membership of the North Carolina Nursery & Landscape Association (NCNLA) elected two industry professionals to serve three-year terms on the NCNLA Board of Directors.

Guest Column

Meeting Demand: Forecasting to Meet Increasing Shade Tree Demand

Alec Charais

Many nursery wholesalers, landscapers and retailers have been left scrambling to find supply of material in a new market with fewer growers fulfilling larger trees.

Inside Look

One More Worry

Jennifer Zurko

We don’t mean to add stress to your already pressure-filled spring season; our goal is to keep you well-informed.

Paul's Pointers

Show Me Your ID

Paul Pilon

Properly identifying plant disorders is an important aspect of growing perennials.

SAF in the Lobby

SAF Members Take to Congress—and the White House—for Annual Congressional Action Days

The Society of American Florists

Nearly 100 Society of American Florists members representing all industry segments, three countries, 25 states and the District of Columbia, traveled to Washington, D.C., March 12 and 13 to meet with lawmakers and key congressional staff.

Under an Acre

Inspiration, One Plant at a Time

Anne-Marie Hardie

For some people, a life in horticulture is simply a career choice; for others-like Nancy Hart, founder of Church Creek Nursery in Johns Island, South Carolina-it's their destiny.

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Bellini Raspberry Lagerstroemia

Star Roses and Plants

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Build 900 Titan Operator Program

Argus Controls Systems Ltd.

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Perpetua blueberries

Bushel and Berry

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Pro-Mix MP Biofungicide + Mycorrhizae

Premier Tech Horticulture

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RootSmart

A.M.A. Plastics Ltd.

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Strongbox Ilex glabra

Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.