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A bit of a stretch
Over at Southern Living Steve Bender known as “The Grumpy Gardener” has written an article titled, “Who wants to kill the birds?” It’s about the recent fines Scotts Miracle-Gro received for selling poisoned bird seed. In the article Steve say’s, “Grumpy loves … Continue reading
We can grow that!
Back on September 4th I wrote a post titled, “You Can’t Grow That”. It concerned Scotts/Miracle Gro, and its trade marking the phrase, “You can gro that!” The problem was it was a phrase thought up by CL Fornari, nursery … Continue reading
Honest dialogue
One of the goals with starting our Facebook page for retail garden centers, their vendors, and media was to foster open dialogue. So often it seems that the trade news we hear is a bit watered down. You don’t get the feeling … Continue reading
You cannot control the message
My last post concerning Scotts/Miracle-Gro’s trademarking a phrase thought up by someone else brought us this comment from Robert Woodman, of The British Gardener. “I was in ‘shock and ore’ to read what Scotts has done with trade-marking ‘you can … Continue reading
You can’t grow that!
Here is a story that shows just how quickly the horticultural industry in diverging into two different types of business. On the one hand we have smaller, independent garden professionals and on the other hand we have the larger concerns … Continue reading
Still a big opportunity for “real” green businesses
Had no idea the hullabaloo that would arise after my Tweet of an article from Garden Center Magazine about the partnership between Scotts Miracle-Gro and The National Wildlife Federation and their “Be Out There” campaign. It illustrates well the the … Continue reading
What are they thinking?
File this under why people new to gardening give up so soon. A new gardener might have heard that mixing perlite with their soil improves drainage. Perlite is commonly used in organic potting soils, and is the little spongy white … Continue reading
Scotts Miracle-Gro want’s “to target the pot market”
According to The Wall Street Journal Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO Jim Hagedorn say’s, “I want to target the pot market,” …There’s no good reason we haven’t.” Yup, you know we have hit mainstream when Scotts Miracle-Gro want’s in on the market. … Continue reading
Gardening Trends
We in the garden center trade are under intense pressure by media and experts to follow trends. They say the way to success is to look at what the mass of people are doing. Selling organic products from your store … Continue reading
Being an independent nursery.
Carol made a comment at my last post on Scott’s. She said “Well, I guess Scott’s must still think the independents are worth partnering with, still viable in the marketplace, still worthy of attention, so maybe that is good news?” … Continue reading
