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I am so proud to be a part of an industry and a company that recognizes the need to support women and diversity. Growing...

Tania Lemus, Undergraduate Horticulture Student, Colorado State University At Colorado State University, we continue to evaluate herbaceous perennial performance at our Perennial Demonstration Teaching, Research Outreach...

Part 3 of 3 – Reviewing Financial Statements After the Income Sheet (featured in the previous issue of NewsLeaf), we move to the reviewing Financial...

Colorado State University (CSU) welcomes Mengmeng Gu, Ph.D., as the new Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA) department head in the College of Agricultural Sciences....

Providing a sustainable product It’s no secret that growing plants in Colorado is not an easy feat! Our soil, wind, and variable temperatures make this...

James Klett, Ph.D., became a faculty member at Colorado State University (CSU) in 1980, more than 40 years ago. By the simple fact of...

Five Nursery Pros Share the Backstory Republished with permission from Colorado Green. Originally published by the Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado, VOL 38, NO 4,...

Lessons From 2008 Can Help Plan for the Future CNGA’s NewsLeaf reached out to key people in five greenhouse or nursery businesses to talk about...

On June 7-8, I had the honor of attending the Colorado State FFA convention in Pueblo. Along with Glenda Mostek, CNGA Executive Director and...

We hope you’ve been having a great season so far – it’s been a whirlwind. The Nutrien Agricultural Sciences building at CSU is officially finished...

Are nurseries and greenhouses ag? Are we not ag? Are we some nebulous classification of ‘other ag,’ and what does that mean for us? Glenda...

SpectraGrow, Inc.2590 Walnut StDenver, CO 80205720.934.6107www.spectragrow.com Interview with Whit Allen, Founder/CEO How did the company get started? In 2017, executives from three companies that were already working...

O’Toole’s Garden Centers1404 Quail StreetLakewood, CO 80215303.232.6868http://www.otoolesgardencenters.com Interview with Kerry Young, General Manager; Patrick O’Toole, Head of Marketing and Logistics; and Adele O’Toole, Owner What is...

If you were in the greenhouse industry 40-50 years ago, summer was the time for your family vacations after a very busy spring season....

Part 2 of 3 – The Income Statement Moving on from the Balance Sheet (featured in the previous issue of NewsLeaf), go to the Income...

This was the fourteenth year that Colorado State University (CSU) has conducted Cool Season Trials at the Annual Flower Trial Garden. The overall goal...

After two years that seemed like forever, it was great to attend California Annual Spring Trials (CAST) in person during its normal early spring...

Colorado is a semi-arid state and water is always an issue. Now with attention on climate change it’s even more important to assess what...

Japanese beetles have many preferences. It’s harder to find plants they avoid. Cheryl Smith, CDA Division of Plant Industry, provided the following list of...

With climate change happening, do we need a marketing change? After experiencing the driest April on record and years of various stages of drought,...