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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 we relied on outside suppliers, receiving plants from different states...

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 responsibility. We have two 100-foot long greenhouses where we grow...