Today's Garden Center: News For Garden Retailers

Today's Garden Center

The inside scoop from Calloway's on what great media connections can do for your business.

It wouldn't be spring without long checkout lines. And no matter how efficient your checkout process is, sometimes there's no getting around them, which is something Verdego uses to its advantage.

Garden centers are having fun on Facebook with sales promotions that drive store traffic.

Portland Nursery stumbled onto an off season promotion that had surprising results...not to mention, it filled up their registers with cash during the slowest part of the year.

Looking for a quick hire to take care of your blogging or even your visual merchandising? Head back to college...to find knowledgeable help.

Breezewood Gardens & Gifts turns un-romantic chumps into masters of the heart with weekend-long packages.

Napa Home & Garden's set-up in this year's Gift & Home Furnishings Market at Atlanta's AmericasMart is beautiful. See how they used simple kitchen cabinet lights to make their pottery pop.

Here's a Steal This Idea sent in to us by Garden center consultant Sid Raisch. See how a garden center borrowed a little bit of counter space (at another area business) to get the word out about their beautiful arrangements.

Great merchandising could be found up and down every aisle, floor and building at this year's AmericasMart. Here's one display that plays to your scraps.

Down To Earth Garden Center recognizes that many of its patrons arrive in pairs. And sometimes, half of that duo isn't really into the gardening scene. So Down To Earth decided to step in.

Give it boatloads of attention. Buchanan's did and now their orchids are on the move.

Are your ceilings noticeable...noticeably unattractive? Maybe they're old, water damaged or just boring. Pine Tree Barn's customers don't see any of that, thanks to colorful fabrics.