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12/21/2025

Give you or your employees the gift of new growth and new strategies in the new year; sign up for GardenComm Winter Webinars. 10 experts you can listen to live or on-demand. Buy individual classes or a discounted pass for all of the webinars. Topics relevant to anyone who works in any part of the green industry! Register now at gardencomm.org/ww.

GardenComm is proud to announce its 2026 Winter Webinar Series, launching January 13 and running through February 12. This fully virtual event features 10 expert-led sessions designed to help green industry professionals sharpen their skills, expand their audience, and grow their revenue in the year ahead.
Topics cover everything from publishing your first book to building waterwise and edible landscapes, monetizing your platform, LinkedIn strategy, and even biophilic web design—all tailored to the communications and education needs of the horticulture, landscape, and gardening sectors.
Each session includes live Q&A and on-demand recordings for registrants. It’s open to both members and non-members, and pricing is accessible for every level of professional:
Single Session: $25
Early-bird pricing for All-Access Pass (10 Sessions): $99
Early-bird pricing available through December 31, 2025
More info and registration: gardencomm.org/ww

12/20/2025

The UpShoot team produced and dropped the December Concept Plants and Plantipp enews this week. It's there year-end review and what a year it was! Check it out!

What a year it’s been. 2025 brought extraordinary recognition for Plantipp and Concept Plants varieties across the industry, made possible by the dedication of breeders, growers, partners and teams around the world. Here’s a look back at a year full of shared success.

12/19/2025

As you may have heard, Cloud Dancer is the 2026 Pantone Color of the Year. Proven Winners has created an Idea Board to inspire gardeners with Proven Winners selection that bring this color to the home garden including 4 trees - Spring Glory Amelanchier, Avalanche Birch, Lollipop and Sweet Sugar Tyme Crabapples. https://www.provenwinners.com/ideaboard/313292

12/16/2025

An UpShoot salute to Tom Roth and Meadowood Enterprises on their new headquarters! When I need to source a variety of wholesale nursery stock, they are my go-to source.

12/15/2025

This season has a way of slowing us down just enough to notice the good—
the soft glow of lights, the people who steady us, the quiet reminders that hope still rises.
May we lean into the simple things, the honest things, the things that make us feel at home.
Here’s to choosing peace, choosing kindness, and choosing joy on purpose.
✨❤️

12/13/2025

Gotta love a GREAT gardening gift! Thank you Katie Elzer-Peters and The Garden of Words team for the limited edition red handled mini CobraHead weeder. This awesome new tool and frigid and snowy day in NE Ohio has me dreaming of spring and digging in the soil.

12/12/2025

Excited for our Proven Winners ColorChoice Tree program growers Ekstrom & Schmidt Nursery that is profiled in the most recent issue of the Oregon Association of Nurseries The Digger magazine. Proud to have such a wonderful organization on our team!

Ekstrom & Schmidt Nursery started with 10 acres and has grown to more than 160 acres and is known for Japanese maples, dogwoods and redbuds.

12/11/2025

UpShoot put together and published this Newsflash for Concept Plants encouraging readers to vote for Glow Sticks Festuca as Best Perennial in the National Garden Bureau Green Thumb People's Choice Awards. Voting is open through December 17th so you still have time to cast your ballot!

Why Glow Sticks Fescue? It’s unlike any ornamental grass you’ve ever seen. This fescue dazzles from mid-spring with an incredible show of bright yellow flowers spikelets. They create a contrast with the dark green foliage which retains its color year-round. Additionally, Glow Sticks is climate-p...

12/10/2025

Thanks to Nick Federoff of Things Green for interviewing me at the Green Industry Hall of Fame Awards last month. Honored to be an inductee and share my story with Nick. We got to talk trees including my favorite in the Proven Winners ColorChoice Flowering tree program.

Meet Maria Zampini, fourth-generation nurseryman, President of UpShoot Horticulture, and newly inducted Green Industry Hall of Fame member who shattered the ...

12/09/2025

The GardenComm Laurel Awards are now open! Submit for your chance to promote your work as award-winning!

The 2026 GardenComm Laurel Media Awards are now open for entries!

Held annually for 30+ years, the GardenComm Laurel Media Awards have recognized the top professional horticultural communicators­ in the areas of: Writing, Photography, Speaking, Digital Media, Broadcast Media, Publishing, and Trade.

Early Bird Deadline: January 31, 2026

Submit your entries today at https://pulse.ly/mlthatydhz

12/04/2025

Hey garden communication friends - plan now to join in on our Gather & Grow 2026 events at MANTS in January! This trade show is so worth attending for connections, story ideas, job opportunities and more.

GardenComm members — let’s connect in Baltimore!

Join us for a Gather & Grow Meetup during MANTS on Wednesday, January 7, from 5–8 PM.

Enjoy a private area just steps from the convention center, complimentary bar food, and an open bar — thanks to our sponsor, Proven Winners® ColorChoice®.

This event is limited to the first 35 GardenComm members who RSVP, so be sure to save your spot soon!

RSVP 👉 https://pulse.ly/gtw5e9trgq