2007 Regional Winner: Southeast
Boulevard Flowers, Inc.
Colonial Heights, VA

This year Boulevard Flower Gardens rated as one of Today's Garden Center's 100 Revolutionary Garden Centers Regional Winner. That means they scored the highest of all the Southeast garden centers on the list. This one-location operation is an efficient, profitable business, pulling in $2.75 million on a 1-acre site in Colonial Heights. The 51-year-old business has created custom-print tags for several plants, including the popular Boulevard Fern hanging baskets for which it has become famous locally.

"We promote these for early April sales and sell 2,000 of these, each at a premium price," writes co-owner Mark Landa. "People look forward to this each year."

The new Counterpoint POS system installed this year has allowed easier transactions for credit and debit cards, as well as gift cards. "We are downloading electronic catalogs from our vendors and past product purchases, creating our own item numbers, which are quickly identifiable to department managers, identifying specific vendors and departments."

Boulevard also pools with other grower/retailers who are not in the immediate area to increase quantities when buying or do full containers of products from overseas. Large quantity purchases are bid out among several vendors.

Find them online at www.boulevardflowers.com

Other Revolutionary 100 operations in this region:
Across The Pond Inc.
Huntsville, AL

Countryside Gardens
Hampton, VA

DeWayne's Home & Garden Showplace
Selma, NC

Fairview Garden Center
Raleigh, NC

Greenbrier Nurseries
Roanoke, VA

Holcomb Garden Center
Hixon, TN

Homewood Nursery
Raleigh, NC

Johnson Nursery & Garden Center
Cookeville, TN

L.A. Reynolds Garden Showcase
Winston-Salem, NC

Nature Scapes
Bunnell, FL

Nobles Greenhouse & Nursery
Live Oak, FL

Pike Family Nurseries
Norcross, GA

Wallitsch Garden Center
Louisville, KY

Wingard's Nursery & Garden Center
Lexington, SC

Woodley's Garden Center
Columbia, SC

Young's Garden Center
Fort Mill, SC