(Via The Blogging Nurseryman - The Art of Running a Small Garden Center or Nursery)

Posted by admin to Controversy, The Big Boys, independent, media on 2008-03-11, 08:42:11

About a year ago Scotts Miracle-Gro started a ad campaign in various nursery trade publications, most notably Nursery Retailer Magazine. The campaign called “Jim Loves Independents” is designed to woo independent garden centers with their new line of fertilizers and pest controls designed just for independents. The ad has printed in LARGE letters “Jim Loves [...]

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Posted by admin to Blogging, media on 2008-03-10, 11:24:20

Over at Garden Rant Elizabeth ask, “Are we in the middle of a gardening revolution?” She sites a number of gardening articles at various newspapers that all speak to this new awareness, especially in vegetable gardening. What I find amusing is that all of these main stream media outlets save one, cite “pinching pennies” as one [...]

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Posted by admin to media, nursery, nurseryman, retail on 2008-02-03, 10:31:17

These instructive words and more can be found in an article by Valerie Easton of The Seattle Times. Her article, “Word to Live By” talks about the importance of having a trustworthy nurseryman or woman available.

“There’s nothing as instructive as pumping a knowledgeable nursery person for information”, continues the article. Yes! I love reading stuff like this on a cold, rainy Sunday.