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Habersham Gardens: Community Cornerstone
Through vigorous networking and interactive events, Atlanta’s Habersham
Gardens continues to grow strong relationships with local businesses and customers.
Slideshow: Habersham Gardens
Atlanta's Habersham Gardens is small on property, but big on personality and building community relationships. Check out more of this cozy neighborhood garden center.
Features
Birding: Taking Flight
The wild bird category is shaping up to be one to watch this spring as major players like Commerce Corp. and Scotts are giving it attention.
Water Gardening: New Products
These new ponding products may help you make a splash with your water gardening department this spring.
Birding: Q&A With Moana Nursery
Moana Nursery recently invested in a Wild Birds Unlimited franchise for all three of the nursery's locations in Reno, Nev.
Birding: Q&A With Wild Bird Suppliers
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Read three Q&A's with birding suppliers for more tips on how to make birding a successful category in your garden center.
Slideshow: Merchandising Birding Products
Check out these photos of birding sections at garden centers across the country for inspiration in your own department.
Birding: New Products
Here are several new products for 2010 that will have customers flocking to your store.
5 Questions With VerdeGo
Even in a down economy, landscape design can be a big part of your business. VerdeGo’s Brian Brown explains how.
Earthscapes Software: Design Experts
Visual Impact Imaging offers Earthscapes landscape design software so landscapers and retailers can be the design experts.
Ponding's New Wave
The economy and new consumer preferences are changing the water gardening department.
Training: Prepare Your Team To Wow Customers
Here are valuable tools for thrilling customers and keeping them coming back for more.
Service Tips: Offer Top-Notch Service
These easy garden ideas will impress customers and create a true experience.
Signs Sell: Product Sign Templates
Let’s get down to business with templates to help you create your own voice in signage at your garden center.
In Her Words: Write The Rules In Pencil...Then Throw Them Out The Window!
Sometimes in business, you have to break your own rules in the name of better customer service.
Taking Better Photos: Fully Exposed
Experts share tips that can make the photos on your webpages entice a visit from your current and prospective customers.
Colorful Trees And Shrubs
Concerned about the shrubs and trees markets this year? Offer customers plants like the ones we highlight on these pages, because a little sizzle and standout color can go a long way.
Conard-Pyle Drift Roses
This compact rose offers big options for small gardens.
Make The Most Of Excess Nursery Stock
Jared Bookhardt of Sharp Top Trees has a unique way to take advantage of all that leftover nursery stock hanging around the garden center.
Steal This Idea: Outside The Nursery
Sometimes visiting retailers outside the garden center industry prompts inspiration for new ideas back home.
Columns
Touchpoints By Pete Mihalek
The Grocery Store’s Fault
Pete's a new gardener. Unfortunately it wasn't by way of a garden center.
Strategies And Concepts By Kurt Fromherz
Social Media The Right Way
Start the conversation with customers, but let them take the lead in telling you what they are looking for on a social media site.
