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Quarterly print + digital publication serving leading independent garden center retailers in North America (U.S. and Canada). Published by GIE Media.

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06/23/2026

Three easy steps to happiness this summer! 🪴

Register for the Garden Center Conference & Expo this August in Nashville at the link below 🤠

https://www.gardencenterconference.com/

06/22/2026

📢 Our 2026 Top 100 Independent Garden Centers List is out now!

In order to best represent this incredible industry, our Top 100 Independent Garden Centers List has evolved again. As usual, you will find the Top 100's place on the list, total 2025 retail revenue, number of locations and and states in which they have locations.

This year, we’re offering additional context.

You’ll find icons calling out the top 10 single-location IGCs and the top 10 employers.

You’ll also find the percentage of overall business revenue from landscaping activities to help clarify the overall size of each business, as well as the total number of employees, as reported by each business.

We’re also sharing the median home value in the county where each IGC’s headquarters is located. Sourced from Zillow median home list prices, these data are meant to represent the buying power of homeowning garden consumers near the business.

We hope these additions provide a more nuanced picture of the industry to better compare and contrast the performance of contributing garden centers.

Congratulations to all the list-makers!

View the full list here:

https://www.gardencentermag.com/article/2026-top-100-independent-garden-centers-list-/

06/18/2026

In the garden center, you're the expert that customers turn to, but not everyone majored in chemistry.

The Jack's Classic/JR Peters, Inc. team is here to help.

Here, Kaitlyn Sterner, director of technical support, busts two fertilizer myths about feeding plant in the heat of summer and plants only needing water.

Watch the full replay of our live event with Jack's at the link below:

https://www.gardencentermag.com/media/jacks-nutrients-garden-center-plant-health-sponsored-video/

06/17/2026

Gardening can be rewarding when your customers' hard work comes into bloom. But it can also be overwhelming trying to decide which plants are best for their yards.

The NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox sifts through hundreds of characteristics for thousands of plants to recommend the ones that will thrive in your customers' landscape and provide exactly what they want.

Led by consumer and community horticulture professor Lucy Bradley in the Department of Horticultural Science/NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, researchers have compiled decades of horticultural data into the NC Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox, an easily accessible, high-tech decision-support system designed to improve plant health, optimize ecosystem services and maximize gardener satisfaction.

Since its launch in 2019, the platform has experienced massive global adoption, garnering over 56 million views from 35 million users across 242 countries.

The real reward for Bradley, though, is knowing that the toolbox gives gardeners — from novice to expert — confidence in their choices.

“The most important decision a gardener makes is what to plant,” she says. “By enabling gardeners to select plants that will thrive in their landscape and give them the benefits they seek, we set them up for joy.”

Learn more at the link below and share this tool with your customers 💻

https://www.gardencentermag.com/news/nc-state-extension-gardener-plant-toolbox/

06/16/2026

Some of the most meaningful conversations among garden center leaders tend to happen after hours, when owners can speak candidly with other owners.

We're offering time for these conversations during the Garden Center Conference & Expo in Nashville this August in the session "Owners' Roundtable: Tough Conversations Leaders Need to Have."

We’ll unearth the “elephants in the room” that many leaders face but rarely discuss openly: family business dynamics, succession tensions, ownership vs. operational roles, financial stress, and the personal challenges of leadership.

The conversation will be led by:
-Jennifer Moss, CEO, Moss Greenhouses
-Sarah Polzin, co-owner and retail operations VP, Down to Earth Garden Center
-Rob Sproule, co-owner, Salisbury Greenhouse

Register for the conference at the link below, then bring your questions and challenges to this session and face them head-on with your peers:

https://www.gardencenterconference.com/

06/15/2026

Last month, Dümmen Orange, North America and Syngenta Flowers NA announced they had established a strategic joint venture to "unite their strengths to build a more resilient and competitive enterprise," according to a press release.

In the latest episode of The Growth Industry podcast, GIE Media Horticulture Group Editorial Director Kelli Rodda speaks with Dümmen Orange CEO Ellen Mackenbach-Lakeman and Mark Schermer, global head of Syngenta Flowers, to discuss what the companies' union will mean for customer relationships, supply, logistics, new introductions, company culture and more.

Listen at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

https://www.gardencentermag.com/media/dummen-orange-syngenta-flowers-merger-ellen-mackenbach-lakeman-mark-schermer-podcast/

06/11/2026

Donna Kutil Ross is a second-generation co-owner, alongside her brother, Jeff, of Scenic Roots.

The IGC, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026, sits on Cape Cod, where a swell of second-homeowners hits The Cape around the Fourth of July, feuling an extended season.

As IGCs elsewhere wind down, Scenic Roots sells annuals, hanging baskets, vegetables and herbs through July.

At the Garden Center Conference & Expo this August in Nashville, Donna will share more will share her perspectives and strategies for weathering economic uncertainty and finding success in what you can control in the panel "How Garden Centers Can Navigate Economic Uncertainty."

“We’re just naturally progressing with these wonderful opportunities, basically waiting people out and picking it up as it comes,” Donna says. “I tell people that's growing your business organically. I know that sounds cliche, but it's just the natural progression of staying in business that long.”

Listen to Donna in this Session Sneak Peek here, then register for the conference at the link below and add her session to your calendar!

https://www.gardencenterconference.com/

06/10/2026

Atlas Greenhouse and Stuppy Greenhouse, Inc have officially partnered, bringing together over 200 years of collective industry experience.

By working as one, they can expand their greenhouse structures and systems with broader product availability and unwavering quality. Complementary U.S.-built product lines give growers more flexibility to upgrade and fine-tune their operation based on their individual production needs.

Together, they'll be attending Cultivate'26 with a complete, integrated exhibit space. Visit them at booth #2925 to see their structures and technologies, meet members of their team, and learn more about what's to come from this partnership.

Read more on the Atlas + Stuppy Greenhouses partnership in the article below:

https://www.gardencentermag.com/article/atlas-stuppy-greenhouses-partnership-cultivate-2026-sponsored/

06/09/2026

Come take a walk through Maggie's Garden Center!

Maggie's — named after Garden Center MAGazine — is the fully merchandised Immersive Garden Center we'll have on-site at the 2026 Garden Center Conference & Expo.

From product displays to layout and flow, every detail is designed to show what drives sales — and ideas you can bring back to your own business.

It's all waiting for you this August in Nashville. Register at the link below ✨

https://www.gardencenterconference.com/

06/08/2026

The historic and dazzling RHS - Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show 2026 has come and gone, heralding spring in the United Kingdom and a flood of garden trends and news across the globe.

It seems inevitable that many of the plants and designs will find purchase in the minds and garden beds of American gardeners. And in an industry where understanding gardening consumers’ desires can drive sales, it’s good to know what may be crossing the Atlantic someday soon.

From AI to "edimentals," the 2026 show was a trend-watcher's paradise. Find out the Chelsea Flower Show highlights to keep an eye on from our editor, Patrick Alan Coleman:

https://www.gardencentermag.com/article/rhs-chelsea-flower-show-2026-gardening-trends/

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