pollinators
Brand Spotlight: Growing Sweet Success in Small Spaces with Butterfly Candy™ Buddleia
The new Butterfly Candy® Buddleia collection is a powerful tool for garden centers to use to encourage new gardeners to keep gardening.
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Butterflies in the Aisles
Erik Dietl-Friedli, TPIE chairperson and head buyer at Florida's Flamingo Road Nursery, makes the case for IGCs to have butterfly gardening departments.
Retrospective collective
As we come to the end of 2023, we’re looking back at notable products and ideas from garden centers and more that we’ve featured throughout the year in our Spotted! department.
Monrovia’s 2023 Bee a Winner program boosts sales, develops customer relationships
Garden centers that placed a minimum order of Monrovia’s pollinator-friendly plants received ten additional 1-gallon plants, for free, to use as customer prizes.
Bloomin’ for Butterflies
During this year’s Pollinator Week, Seasons Garden Center in Pennsylvania hosted the Bloomin’ for Butterflies container gardening workshop.
2024 Perennial Plant of the Year announced
PPA members voted Phlox paniculata ‘Jeana’ as the 2024 PPOY and find it makes an excellent bridging plant between early and later flowering perennials.
Bringing life to gardens
Wingard’s Market is a small family-owned garden center located in Lexington, South Carolina, where second-generation owners Wally and Delores Steinhauser didn’t stop at plants.
Celebrate Pollinator Week June 19-23 with AmericanHort and Horticultural Research Institute
Pollinator Week is June 19-23, and AmericanHort and the Horticultural Research Institute are hosting several pollinator-focused webinars for the green industry.
Lasting impact
Don’t let the high price points and perceived difficulty of shrubs intimidate new or existing homeowners — remind customers how fulfilling and versatile these landscape additions can be.
Merchandising with purpose
Look through new and noteworthy merchandising ideas from the International Garden Centre Congress.
Endangered & beloved
Native plants provide habitat and nourishment for the endangered and beloved monarch.
