Jamie Gooch

The well-known sweet lilac fragrance is abundant in Sweet Treat Lilac from Garden Debut.

Designed by: Catherine Conn Court, APLD, MCL, Landscape Gardens & Design, East Boothbay, ME.

The headlines these days are enough to make any landscape contractor worry, and rightly so. The stock market's ups and (mostly) downs, the mortgage crisis and talk of frozen lending have small businesses wishing all they have to fear are higher energy prices.

Small business owners may sometimes feel they are an island unto themselves. You may be the one selling, designing and installing the landscape project. That's a lot to do, but many successful small landscape companies do it every day. However, without help, most will stay small landscape companies.

Are you curious as to what your green thumb clients and potential clients are growing? What gardeners in your USDA growing zone are planting? What pest, weed and disease problems are they having? What do they think about the latest cultivars on the market? You could interview them, send surveys and...more >>

Roses have a reputation for being high-maintenance plants. From pruning and fertilization to insect and disease control - roses need intensive care to flourish, right? Not necessarily.

BEND, OR - Drake Design Group (DDG) and Botanical Developments, both affiliates of Brooks Resources Corp., recently completed the North Rim Park project. DDG designed the park to match with the community's architectural guidelines, which includes the incorporation of native landscaping

New Products

Calibrachoa cultivar MiniFamous Double Blue from Selecta First Class is part of a double flowering series that includes three colors on trailing 4-inch-tall plants. The annual performs well in sunny baskets and containers.

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