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...

Growing Hardy Plants for the West

How did Sunland Nursery get started? It was 66 years ago that my parents started a retail nursery business in Santa Fe. For many years...

Creating Comfortable, Beneficial Landscapes

What role does horticulture play in your operations? It’s important at all of our parks, but especially so at Water World, which is my main...

How to Onboard & Train Employees into a Safety Culture

Safety Corner From Richards, Seeley & Schaefer, Inc. Once you attract and hire qualified job candidates to your open positions, having an onboarding and training process...

Implementing Multiple Strategies to Battle Japanese Beetle

NEWS FROM THE CDA By Laura Pottorff, CGG,  Nursery & Plant Pest Quarantine Program Manager, Colorado Department of Agriculture Quarantine pests and laws associated with their...