Tips for End-of-the-Season Perennial Care – Retailer

By Lon Vincent, CCNP, Manager, Wilmore Outdoor Living Center In August, many people give up on gardening. Their minds are turning to fall, and rather...

Tips for End-of-the-Season Perennial Care – Wholesale Grower

By Esther Langley, CGG, CCNP, General Manager, Britton Nursery Britton Nursery overwinters 100,000 plants in cold frames each year. As fall comes, the staff of...

Make Your Customers into Heroes — They’ll be Back Every Season

By Rachel Guttman, MBA, Online Marketing Expert, SCORE Colorado Springs In either busy or slow seasons, merchandising is paramount. Offering seasonal products and displaying them...

Broadening Your Supplier Base

What does it mean to broaden a supplier base?  Beth Gulley: We buy through a lot of broker representatives, so broadening that base...

Our Industry’s Future Part 1: Excuses Never Lead to Solutions

By Matt Edmundson, CHREF Board President I was sitting at the back-corner table, scanning the room and feeling pretty skeptical about the presentation I was...

Pre-Emergent Herbicides for Container-Grown Ornamentals

CSU RESEARCH UPDATE By James E. Klett, Ph.D., CSU Professor & Extension, Landscape Horticulturist; and Ronda Koski, CGG, Research Associate, Colorado State University In the production...

Good Things Come to Those Who Don’t Wait

Financial Affairs By Bob Conner, Rocky Mountain Region Hard Goods Sales representative, Griffin Greenhouse Supplies, Inc. With spring barely behind us, now is a perfect time...

Putting People & Plants Together in a Wonderful Place

How old is Denver Botanic Gardens? In just a few years we’ll be celebrating our 70th birthday. The charter for the Gardens was filed in...

Experts on Evolving Products & Technology

What is the company’s history? In the 1890s, Clarence Montague opened a clay pot manufacturing plant in Denver, which was the beginning of American Clay...

An Industry with a Strong Future

By David McKinney, CSU Scholarship Winner When looking back on my past three years at Colorado State University, I have come to understand that I...