The emergency fund is just one component of the ODA’s nursery licensing program. Other pieces aim to keep nursery plants healthy, whether they’re being grown here and shipped out of state or brought in from elsewhere.
Building trust is key to establishing clientele base for new nurseries
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For new retail and wholesale nurseries, one of the biggest challenges is building your network of suppliers, sales leads and vendors from scratch.
New shrub offerings won’t outgrow smaller spaces
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Landscape designers face the challenges of smaller lot sizes and density of homes when choosing front-yard shrubs. Growers and nurseries are meeting these challenges with more shrub options that stay true to size and will not outgrow the spots where they are planted.
SAIF offers tips to prevent nursery injuries
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As a senior safety management consultant at SAIF, a not-for profit workers’ compensation insurance company in Oregon, I work with policyholders every day to assess their workplace safety and offer guidance on how to make workers safer on the job. I get to spend a lot of time with nurseries in the Willamette Valley and […]
People and nurseries can benefit from healing powers of plants
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People benefit simply from being in gardens and nature, which can, in turn, benefit nurseries as well
Garden centers have to navigate choppy waters when pricing their goods
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For almost five years, Crystal Cady owned her own garden and farming business, Sunflower Acres Farm & Garden in Salem. Through it, she would grow and source plants and garden products. She sold mostly at farmers’ markets and plant shows, where it almost never failed that her hanging flower baskets were more expensive than anyone […]
Terra Nova Nurseries’ Pantone Color of the Year Varieties List:
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Millennials are growing up, buying homes, and setting the stage for the industry’s future
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Now, nurseries and retail garden centers are looking at a long-term — and younger — source of continued growth: millennials and other younger folks who are growing up, buying homes, starting families and gardening.
Shaping your retail team
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Here’s what to look for when hiring front line garden center workers
Egan Gardens sold, to close end of year
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Ellen Egan has sold her retail and wholesale nursery, Egan Gardens, in Salem, Oregon, and will be closing at the end of the year.
