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

New Stuff Consumers Will Crave

Chris Beytes, Bill Calkins & Jennifer Zurko

New introductions we saw at the California Spring Trials that we think would be ideal for your garden center customers.

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.

The Hurricane & the Fungi

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.

2024 Liberty Hyde Bailey Award Given to Jim Nau

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.

In Memoriam: Jim Stuppy

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.

Dümmen Orange Update: New Owners, New CEO

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.

The best thing about my Spring 2024 Weekend Sales Survey is that it once again reinforces that weather is the No. 1 factor that can affect sales.

Of Plants and Pizza

Is there a human on the planet who can honestly say they don’t like flowers and plants?

The Best Poinsettia for …

We asked experts to take off their company hats and tell us, objectively and honestly as they could, which varieties, regardless of breeder, are the very best in a wide range of categories. Here’s a brief excerpt of their answers.

Zapping Bugs With Lasers

At Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, researcher Estuardo “EJ” Hernández Olesinski and his team are seeing if lasers can be used in the greenhouse to kill insect pests.

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