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A micro-nursery craze?
Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 70′s one of my favorite beers was one known as Anchor Steam. It was so different than the run of the mill beer like Bud and Coors. Rich, dark, … Continue reading
The Fear of Success.
I wanted to address a comment at my last post, Social Media, Fear Holds Us Back! Carolyn commented, “I am a nursery owner who has started a blog to communicate with my customers. People keep telling me I need to be on FB, … Continue reading
What are you planning to WOW your customers with this spring?
That question comes from a member of our Independent Garden Center Group. Many garden centers and nurseries close down for the winter, only to re-emerge come spring. One member in Virginia say’s, “since I work 7 days a week from … Continue reading
Gardening news is going local
The Renagade Gardener came to my attention some years ago through Garden Rant. Don Engebretson, who is The Renegade Gardener hails from Minnesota and every year he puts out his “High Spot/Black Spot” awards in which names what he feels … Continue reading
Social Media and the Garden Center. Do you get it?
If your involved in some type of social media it’s easy to assume that everyone else is too. Yes, the use of social media is growing rapidly. There are still plenty of people who want to be involved, but don’t … Continue reading
We can’t control the message anymore
I had an interesting conversation with an employee of a small garden center. She is thrilled by the use of new media. She wants to post pictures of events, special plants, and people at the nursery. She wants to create … Continue reading
More on plant branding
Here is a link to one of our more popular posts concerning plant branding. There are lot’s of great comments including this one from last night. It’s from Jim Monroe of Hort Couture who’s business, “offers the most sought after … Continue reading
Monrovia Nursery, buy from us or we go to the box stores, or out of business.
Look’s like the cat is out of the bag. According to “Sprout” the journal of The American Association of Nurserymen, “Monrovia Growers, Asuza, Calif., has announced to its customers that the company must ‘show significant improvement’ to spring bookings or … Continue reading
Independent Garden Centers and Nurseries
How can the small nursery businesses benefit from the proliferation of social media? Contacts are being made across borders between small businesses and their customers. This cross pollination has huge potential. There is also a cross pollination going on between … Continue reading
Dont fight Scott’s Miracle-Gro.
Over at Fine Gardening Billy Goodnick talks about how “Scott’s Miracle-Gro stole my ammo.†Billy say’s, “I also love taking pot shots at those who I perceive as bad guys, imagine my delight when I saw that the Scotts Miracle-Gro … Continue reading
