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Staff July 7, 2016 Xeric Plants Photo: iStock It may seem odd to talk about plants for dry areas when much of Texas has been inundated this spring by rains of near biblical proportions. But climate conditions continue to change Read More
Staff July 5, 2016 emerald ash borer Photo: Jian Duan; USDA Agricultural Research Service There is (some) good news in the fight against emerald ash borer, which has devastated hundreds of millions of ash trees in the U.S. and Canada Read More
Diversify! Your accountant tells you to diversify your portfolio; your business consultant tells you to diversify your inventory. With businesses running lean and mean these days, is it too much of a risk to launch a new product? Or is Read More
Sally Benson June 16, 2016 Pulmonaria Photos: Sally Benson The unfortunately named Pulmonaria— lungwort—is a beautiful, versatile, hardy plant whose bid for attention has seemed to go unnoticed in recent years. And but for a happy mistake, I might have Read More
Sally Benson June 14, 2016 Growers’ Gardens Photo: Iseli Nursery How do you sell a plant? You do your best to grow the best, but there’s a lot of competition out there. If you’re a grower and you’re attracting landscape Read More
Staff — June 9, 2016 Covering a Slippery Slope Photos: David Winger for Plant Select unless noted otherwise. Your client wants to stabilize a slightly sloped area on newly developed property, where the builder has plopped in a couple of Read More
Yelena Tischenko — June 7, 2016 From New Mexico to California and up through Oregon, drought continues to challenge growing conditions. According to the North American Drought Monitor, southern coastal California is considered to have exceptional drought and eastern parts Read More
Sally Benson — June 2, 2016 Photo istock | Joshua Hodge Photography Let’s get right to the point: Gardeners are spending more these days – to the tune of a reported $36.1 billion (with a b) in 2015. That’s what Read More
Staff — May 13, 2016 All Photos: iStock unless stated otherwise. View last month’s 5 fun horticultural facts. Did you know: that moss growing on urban trees is a useful bio-indicator of cadmium air pollution in Portland? A study by Read More
Staff — May 12, 2016 Photo: iStock | Issam Khriji Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the 2015 American Nurseryman Green Industry Guide and has been updated for accuracy. As we’re moving further into the tech age, mobile Read More