
Photo courtesy of TPIE
Registration for the 2025 Tropical Plant International Expo Road Show is now open.
The full-day tour a day prior to TPIE's opening day includes four nursery production operations near Homestead, Florida, from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET Jan. 21.
Registration is required, and lunch will be provided. The cost is $125. To register, click here.
TPIE Road Show tour stops:
Capri Farms is a 15-acre tropical foliage nursery with a brokerage service to facilitate the needs of its interiorscape and independent garden center customers. A family business started in 1990 by Hector Chin and his wife, Daisy, the company is now managed by their two sons, Lincoln and Hector Jr. (Bob), with the assistance of Dionne Hew and a crew of office and greenhouse personnel.
R. Plants Inc. was established in 1997 as a 2.5-acre nursery. It now operates on more than 100 acres over seven locations. The nursery grows varieties of tropical shrubs, natives, palms and grasses.
Plants In Design is a wholesale grower of pre-finished and in-bloom bromeliads, serving resorts, florists, resellers and interiorscape designers from a 35-acre nursery. It has been in business for more than 40 years and features computerized irrigation and robotics.
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