Columnist Chris Beytes

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Chris Beytes

Chris Beytes Editor

Editor of GrowerTalks, Green Profit magazine and the Acres Online e-newsletter, Chris has been in horticulture for over 30 years. He owned his own greenhouse - Indian River Ornamentals - in Merritt Island, Florida, after he graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in horticulture. He also had a minor in Journalism, so after he and his wife Laurie sold the greenhouse business, he started writing full-time, first for local publications in Florida and then moving to the Chicago area when he began writing for GrowerTalks. He's been with Ball Publishing for 25 years now and only thinks about retirement once in a while.

Recent Articles

The Generations

We’ve been waiting for the bump in retail sales to come since going through the Gen-X dip, and we should be there now, with plenty of Millennials in the 28 to 43 age bracket.

What We Can Learn from Proven Winners’ Customers

What are consumers thinking about gardening in general and our products specifically? It’s what we all want to know! But how do we reach them to ask our burning questions? Proven Winners has spent years building an online presence and a large database of garden consumers, so they have the means to ask. And they did, this summer, with their 2024 Proven Winners Consumer Data Report.

New AAS Winners for 2025

All-America Selections (AAS) has five new AAS Winners available for the 2025 gardening season.

Industry Veterans Form New Greenhouse Company

That new venture is the interestingly named Alchemy Greenhouse Solutions, the brainchild of Bill Vietas, James Parris and Michael Kovalycsik, who have more than 100 years of combined greenhouse industry experience.

In Memoriam: Flower Time’s Bob Ench

Bob passed away on July 17 at the age of 83.

A New Way to Register for CAST

The National Garden Bureau (NGB)announced they’ll be taking on the administrative, marketing and registration duties for the California Spring Trials.

Why Sun Valley Closed its Doors

California-based cut flower grower Sun Valley Floral Farms recently shook up the cut flower world with the news of its pending closing.

RoBoCut: Autonomous Tissue Culture Propagation

You’re looking at a self-contained, fully automatic tissue culture lab that fits in just a few square meters.

New Plants to Attract(and Keep) New Consumers

Chris Beytes, Bill Calkins & Jennifer Zurko

Check out some of the intros in potted, tropical, houseplant, gift-oriented and even cut flowers, and use them to attract and inspire plant lovers of all experience and skill levels.

The More Things Change …

Occasionally, I like to dive back into old issues of GrowerTalks to see what was on the minds of George J. Ball and his sons and the growers they visited. What I most often find is the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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