The 2018 Farwest Show, August 22-24, in Portland, Oregon, offers two tour tracks with special interest for nursery growers in this year’s Nursery Country Tours on Tuesday, August 21, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sponsored by The Peters Company, one tour will give participants a close look at best practices of area tree growers in […]
Farwest Show Greenhouse Tour highlights sustainable production
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The 2018 Farwest Show, August 22-24, in Portland, Oregon, will focus on sustainable practices for greenhouse production in its tour, “Growing Toward Energy Efficiency in Greenhouse Production”, on Tuesday, August 21, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sponsored by The Peters Company, the tour will highlight developments and improvements in greenhouse operations toward a more sustainable […]
Farwest Show Retail Tour highlights brand building at four premier garden centers
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The 2018 Farwest Show, August 22-24, in Portland, Oregon, will focus one of its three annual tours on garden retail on Tuesday, August 21, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sponsored by The Peters Company, the tour, “Building Your Independent Garden Center’s Brand Within Your Community”, will be fun and informative visiting four of the Portland […]
Farwest Tour: Growing Excellence
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This sold-out bus tour included stops at Youngblood Nursery, Carlton Farms and Monrovia. Among the attendees were retailers seeking new and interesting plants, growers wanting a glimpse at exceptional production practices, and the landscape community seeking inspiration. Like a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice in the morning, a stand of radiant orange bottlebrush ginger (Hedychium […]
Travel firm organizing nursery tour of Brazil
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CORRECTION: Initially this post listed the incorrect year for the tour. The tour will be taking place Oct. 19–28, 2014. We apologize for any inconvenience. Anglatin Travel Ltd. is organizing a guided and hosted tour of Brazil for nursery professionals this coming October. The group will visit nurseries, botanical gardens, flower markets, greenhouses, rain forests, […]
Nursery Country stars in January Digger
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The annual Nursery Country (formerly State of Perfection) issue of Digger magazine has been published. It includes feature profiles of five top-notch Oregon growers: J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co. (PDF) Hochstein Nursery (PDF) Countryside & Fairdale Nurseries (PDF) Rickel’s Tree Farm (PDF) Native Grounds Nursery (PDF) The issue was distributed to its 8,000 regular […]
Nursery Tour #3: Al’s Garden Center (Part 5 of 6)
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“Grown by Al’s” appears on the vast majority of pots at the three retail garden center locations operated by Al’s Garden Center, a wholesale greenhouse operation. Al’s produces more than 6 million plants each year on over 30 acres of growing operations. Family owned and operated by second- and third-generation family members, Al’s started as […]
Nursery Tour #3: Fessler Nursery (Part 6 of 6)
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Fessler Nursery Co. is a family-owned-and-operated nursery that has grown to over 500,000 square feet of greenhouse space. It grows more than 70,000 baskets annually and offers a large variety of quality annuals that are shipped seasonally throughout the Willamette Valley and Southern Washington. In 2004, Fessler Nursery became a root-n-sell for Selecta, one of the leading […]
Nursery Tour #3: Terra Nova Nurseries (Part 4 of 6)
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Terra Nova Nurseries Inc. has grown from a tiny lab and greenhouse to a world leader in perennial plant breeding. They have introduced over 700 new varieties to horticulture. Their display gardens are a site to behold…and you will do better than behold them, you’ll walk through them. Their new introductions are distributed world-wide to wholesalers, […]
Nursery Tour #3: Swan Island Dahlias (Part 3 of 6)
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We stopped at Swan Island Dahlias for lunch. The largest dahlia grower in the U.S., Swan Island Dahlias has been in operation for over 85 years. The Gitts family has owned and operated the business for more than 40 years. They hybridize their own new varieties, planting over 30,000 seedlings each year. From those original seedlings, it […]