Weekend Reading
Weekend Reading 2/7/25
This week: Reusing household items in the garden, consumers' preference for online shopping on marketplaces, an indoor garden that uses fog to grow plants and the problem with fake plants.
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Weekend Reading 1/10/25
This week, it's all about trends for the new year! We've rounded up an array of trend pieces from consumer media.
Weekend Reading 12/20/24
This week: How to help your customers create native landscapes, ideas for creative plant containers, updates from one of your big box competitors, why department stores are abandoning the "retail inventory method" and PayPal raising prices for merchants.
Weekend Reading 12/13/24
This week: How poor in-store experiences are losing retailers billions, an explainer on carbon-positive gardening and a technical look at how exactly trees and shrubs survive below-freezing temperatures.
Weekend Reading 12/6/24
This week: A report on this year's Black Friday online shopping, the value of gamifying holiday gift-giving, checking in with big box stores on discretionary spending and an explainer on underground greenhouses.
Weekend Reading 11/29/24
This week: The importance of a cohesive marketing story, changing retail warehouse trends, an explainer on guerilla gardening and why outside lights are deadly to birds.
Weekend Reading 11/22/24
This week: How genetic engineering could be creating a "race of superweeds," a guide to vertical gardening from The Old Farmer's Almanac, a researcher exploring if cultivars or natives are better for pollinators, a check on retail sales as holiday shopping begins and how Trump's stance toward China could affect U.S. companies.
Weekend Reading 11/15/24
This week: More gardening trends for 2025, holiday season sales growth predictions, an expected all-time record high for mobile holiday season shopping and how Trump's proposed tariffs could cut consumer spending power.
Weekend Reading 11/8/24
This week: The "beeple" who've collected 25,000 bees for wild bee research, pollinator gardens vs. perfect lawns, using both "cosmopolitan plants" and native species, and the resilience of independent businesses against Amazon.
Weekend Reading 11/1/24
This week: A unique new dahlia discovered in Washington state, what a La Niña winter means for the U.S., a recap of this year's gardening trends and retailers getting creative amid declining customer loyalty.
Weekend Reading 10/25/24
This week: Rock gardens, electroculture, pallets turned portable gardens and barriers to shopping local.
