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 than thinking about keeping plants beautiful, they are planning how...
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 the wholesale grower in Colorado Springs has to balance keeping...
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 attractively and in a way that demonstrates the value of...
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 partly means you are spreading out all those pieces of...
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 about to hear, wondering how I could avoid demonstrating my...
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 of container-grown herbaceous ornamental plants, “weeds” can be a perennial...
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 to consider how your operation can better meet market demands...
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 1951, and it was formally dedicated in 1954, located inside...
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 Works & Supply Company (now ACW Supply). Since all plant...
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 could not have made it to where I am now...
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Sharon Harding-Shaw and Terry Shaw are the 2025 Inductees into the CNGA...
Sharon and Terry have spent decades running and growing their family business, Harding Nursery, which has been in operation for 69 years. Their dedication...
