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Providing the right information to customers has multiple benefits whether your business is wholesale or retail. While the typical retail customer may need the most guidance in maintaining healthy plants, some staff members of...

While most if not all plant businesses welcome customers from all cultures and walks of life, our businesses have not typically made efforts to market or provide products and services for specific cultural demographics....

Success with growing healthy, beautiful plants leads to happy customers. Happy customers lead to more shopping at your plant business. Keeping in mind that plant diversity is an important goal, not only for providing good...

Combing through spring plant catalogs is such delicious eye candy and a glorious spring ritual for gardeners coming out of winter hibernation. However, most national catalogs promote plants that require too much water and...

Many of us enjoy both "formal" and "informal" garden areas. Formal gardens are where the plants are familiar and desirable, while the informal areas may have lots of natives for attracting pollinators, birds and other...

2020 was quite the year for natural disasters, wasn’t it? COVID-19. Severe weather. Wildfire. With COVID stay-at-home orders, many more people took time last year to start gardens and tend to their yards. And...

Interesting company name, how did it come about? As a well-meaning gift from Katy’s dad, he provided us with a branding specialist who came up with more than 20 potential company names – but we...

Colorado passed Regulation 85 in 2012 to reduce nutrient pollution in lakes, rivers, and streams. The regulation does not currently regulate agriculture or other horticultural crop growers, but recommends voluntary action to avoid future regulation after 2022. In Colorado and...

How did the company get started? Starting out by raising mink and growing cane berries and filberts, Bob and Jean Fessler founded Woodburn in 1961. They decided to try their hand at the nursery business...

Often when people think of trees in winter naturally the first image that comes to mind is that of evergreen conifers such as spruce, pine or fir. However, there are many other deciduous trees...