Social media highlights your social skills, or lack of.
I just received the latest issue of a trade magazine where many of the articles deal with various trade shows and events that go on from time to time. My how things have changed over just the last year! Each and every show had seminars held by nursery consultants who have jumped on the social [...]

Narcissus instead of daffodils?
We have all the bulbs at the nursery for half price. Another lousy bulb season, exasperated by poor decisions by the bulb company. For some odd reason they decided to re-label all the daffodils as narcissus. So we get in packages of daffodil bulbs and they come labeled as narcissus. No mention of the word [...]

Lying to make a sale?
In case you don’t think the indie nursery business has enough to contend with these days, your not going to like this post  over at Doug Green’s  Blog. The post titled, “Six White Lies Garden Centers Tell Customers”, lists the various lies that garden centers tell their customers to make a sale. Perhaps in Doug’s corner [...]

The customer as garden center consultant
Small business has worked on the assumption that if business is good, then whatever we are doing to earn that business is the correct thing. I would have to agree with that analogy. People do vote with their wallets. In the past some business would put out “suggestion cards” or what not, trying to [...]

Garden writing, and garden centers
Just five years ago garden writers, and the garden center business we’re generally unaware of each others presence.  That’s changed, thanks to blogs and Facebook. Among my friends on Facebook many are garden authors, whom just five years ago I wouldn’t have known about. This cross pollination is exactly what the garden center business and [...]