11/03/2025
Myron Knobloch of Knobloch's Greenhouse is no less vigilant or watchful of potential disaster than any other grower. How could he not be? He has 2 acres under cover ā about 33 greenhouses ā producing 90% of the plants he sells out of his retail store.
But Myron could never have foreseen, nor would he have dared to imagine, that the biggest threat to the business he built hand-in-hand with his wife, Beth, would be her sudden passing due to an aggressive and devastating glioblastoma in 2015.
Beth had been the business manager. Where her husband knew plants and how to grow them, she knew numbers and how profits played into production schedules. But a week after the seizure, she came out of brain surgery unable to speak at all or communicate complex subjects. Five months later, she was gone.
Myron and his five children faced a world without a wife, a mother and a business manager. It was a tragic loss for the family and a huge blow to the business.
It was an uncertain time for the then-54-year-old grower-retailer. But among his five children, there were three sons who would become the future of Knoblochās Greenhouse. The only question was how to get there.
The trio of sons and a solid succession plan developed with PivotPoint Business Solutions have kept the business growing and certain of a long future:
https://www.gardencentermag.com/article/knoblochs-greenhouse-succession-planning-family-business-horticulture/
