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The PlantAmerica marketplace is scheduled to launch in February 2001.
We’ve provided a list of valuable links to industry related sites.
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Ever know the exact plant you’re looking for but not know where to purchase it? Regardless of the sector of the industry in which you work, you are no doubt aware of plant locator services. Here is a run-down on what you can expect.
With the boom that’s being taking place in our industry and with some of the devastating weather we’ve had over the past few years, it’s become less and less safe to count on getting the plants you want. Even long standing relationships between grower and buyer are becoming strained as some plants are in a high-demand/low-supply situation. There’s not much to be done about the facts. There is a set amount of need for a given plant and there only so many of those plants available.
If you’ve bumped into this problem of counting on an order of plants from one of your regular vendors only to be told “sorry, can’t fill the order” then you’ve no doubt turned to new sources. Clearly, the most efficient way to go about this is via one of many plant locator services available on the Internet. There are a lot of different such sites out there (and we’ve provided a list and links at the end of this article). That’s the good news.
The bad news is that through exploring these sites and having used and tested some (but not all of them) we’ve discovered there is a wide range of performance and overall satisfaction. Things to watch out for – our come out and ask the company this yourself – is how often the site information is updated. In one case we saw plants listed as being available. Signed up went through the time and hassle of registering and placing the order then two days later got word that they were out of the plants. We were only testing, but if you really needed them by a certain time that two-day lag could be problematic.
Another caveat to this extremely useful method of locating plants is the potential cost. Some of these services are completely free. Some have a flat membership fee. And some you pay a premium according to what you order. Be sure to check out all costs from start to finish of signing on and placing and receiving an order.
Below you will find a series of listings and links to 22 different plant locator services. PlantAmerica is no endorsing any of this services and has not investigated or tested each one. Each individual will need to determine for themselves if this is a service that meets your needs and gives you the service and performance you desire. We view this as a service of compiling a list you can have in one place. This list will always be in our feature article archives if you want to refer back to it. And if you know of a service that is left off of this list, please e-mail us at [email protected] and let us know and we’ll add it to the list.
Plant Locator – Wholesale nurseries, wholesale plant growers, buyers guides for landscapers and lawn and garden professionals. Plantlocator.com – Monthly buyers guides, wholesale nurseries, wholesale plants, plant growers, planting materials, nursery supplies, gardening supplies, plants, trees, shrubs, landscape materials, horticultural supplies, catalogue, listings.
http://www.plantlocator.com
Plant for the Cure: Plant Locator Service: Where to Find Plants in Your Area Where to Find Plants Welcome to the Plant for the Cure Locator Service! The Plant for the Cure TM program involves a network of independently owned retail garden centers, supporting growers and corporate sponsors. Look for the Plant for the Cure TM.
http://www.plantforthecure.com/locator.html
Plant and Supply Locator Horticultural information, plant availability, growers, nurseries, allied supplies, HortSearch, HortDigest. Everything for the Green Industry professional.
http://www.hortworld.com/scripts/hortworld/PsLocator.asp
Plants Unlimited – Grower to wholesale, nursery, landscape plants: rhododendrons, azaleas… Plants Unlimited represents over 100 growers and over 100,000 products from Azaleas to Rhododendrons and all plants in between, focusing on growers to wholesale, nursery, and landscape.
http://www.plantsunlimited.com/
P-PODS Seed supplier and seed/bulb and plant locator. Gardening information services, including guide for attracting pollinators to your yard, and best recommended vegetable and fruit varieties for growing along the Gulf Coast. Specializing in sales of
http://p-pods.com/sys-tmpl/door
plantlocator.net-Wholesale plants wholesale trees growers trees shrubs plants nursery listings Find wholesale plants,trees,woody ornamentals,greenhouse supplies and more. Plant & Supply Locator Magazine is your resource for wholesale plants and trees
http://www.plantlocator.net/db/searchplants.html
Find Plants Locator Service If you’re a wholesale plant buyer, nursery owner, grower or landscape designer, look here first to find the plants and trees you need.
http://www.findplants.com/
Source Central Welcome to Source Central , your complete product locator and purchasing tool for the flower, plant and related industries!
http://www.sourcecentral.com/
Exotic Rare Plants and Species. Succulents, Caudiciforms, Cycads, Bulbs, Bromeliads, Orhicds, Other Genera – Guy Wrinkle International provider of rare, hard to acquire exotic plants. Hundreds of species from all over the world. Succulents, Caudiciforms, Cycads, Bulbs, Bromeliads, Orchids, other genera. Many unavailable anywhere else.
http://exotic-plants.com/
Betrock’s Hortworld: The horticultural site for plants, shrubs, nursery, landscape, horticulture, botany Horticultural information, plant availability, growers, nurseries, allied supplies, HortSearch, HortDigest. Everything for the Green Industry professional.
http://www.hortworld.com/turf.htm
MTNHP Plant Searches Search for status, county and managed area distribution (with links to maps), and, if available, links to photos and additional information for a selected plant species of special
http://orion2.nris.state.mt.us/mtnhp/plants/searches.html
e-Greenbiz.com Buyers and sellers of “green industry” products can securely buy and sell goods and services at this exchange marketplace.
http://www.e-greenbiz.com/
http://www.plantfind.com/default.asp
http://www.growit.com/
http://www.findplants.com/
It’s a low-cost, low-risk opportunity for both buyers and sellers to explore the benefits of eCommerce utilizing powerful and proven technology. Buyers also benefit from access to PurchasePro’s community of 20,000 product suppliers covering virtually every product category and suppliers benefit from exposure to 9 million small business AOL users.
The PlantAmerica marketplace is scheduled to launch in February 2001.
Plant Database PlantAmerica offers green industry firms a well-organized, thorough database of over 38,000 plants (and growing) that includes information on when and how to plant, photos, and care instructions. Included as a feature of the onlinegardener, this database can also be easily added to your existing web site for as little as $9.95 per month. It’s a great customer education/loyalty tool and a valuable resource for employees, as well.
onlinegardener PlantAmerica’s onlinegardener provides an opportunity for any size garden center to have a state-of-the-art, “instant” web presence without the cost and time-consuming maintenance. For only $69.95 per month, a garden center will have a professional web site that offers six seasonal graphic changes, fresh content supplied by the garden center marketing experts at Sunrise Marketing, and the ability to add, subtract or edit in minutes without any special tools or Internet knowledge. Best of all, new visitors to your site will see a fresh, updated site each time they visit-without any effort from you.
Coming Soon-A professional, “instant” web solution for landscape service providers.
Job Link
We have partnered with a couple of companies to help make it easier to find good employees or to find a job for yourself.
Plant for the Cure (PFTC)
Plant for the Cure is a great way to increase sales while serving a worthy cause. For information on this program and how to benefit, click on the link above to see the Plant For the Cure section of the homepage for the Garden Center Management Group.
PLANTAMERICA MarketPlace powered by Purchase Pro Both buyers and suppliers can benefit from participating in the PLANTAMERICA marketplace, a state-of-the-art tool powered by PurchasePro, a leading eCommerce marketplace enabler, and AOL partner. It’s a low-cost, low-risk opportunity for both buyers and sellers to explore the benefits of eCommerce utilizing powerful and proven technology. Buyers also benefit from access to PurchasePro’s community of 20,000 product suppliers covering virtually every product category and suppliers benefit from exposure to 9 million small business AOL users. The PlantAmerica marketplace is scheduled to launch in February 2001.
For the latest on this service, click here.
The Garden Center Management Group
The Garden Center Management Group (gcmgroup) is a management company established in 1996 by professionals with deep independent retail garden center experience. The focus of the company is to return higher profits to its clients by providing assistance with services that either don’t exist in the garden center’s marketplace or are not offered by the garden center’s existing providers.
We’ve provided a list of valuable links to industry related sites.
For the latest on this service, click here.
It’s a low-cost, low-risk opportunity for both buyers and sellers to explore the benefits of eCommerce utilizing powerful and proven technology. Buyers also benefit from access to PurchasePro’s community of 20,000 product suppliers covering virtually every product category and suppliers benefit from exposure to 9 million small business AOL users.
The PlantAmerica marketplace is scheduled to launch in February 2001.
Plant Database PlantAmerica offers green industry firms a well-organized, thorough database of over 38,000 plants (and growing) that includes information on when and how to plant, photos, and care instructions. Included as a feature of the onlinegardener, this database can also be easily added to your existing web site for as little as $9.95 per month. It’s a great customer education/loyalty tool and a valuable resource for employees, as well.
onlinegardener PlantAmerica’s onlinegardener provides an opportunity for any size garden center to have a state-of-the-art, “instant” web presence without the cost and time-consuming maintenance. For only $69.95 per month, a garden center will have a professional web site that offers six seasonal graphic changes, fresh content supplied by the garden center marketing experts at Sunrise Marketing, and the ability to add, subtract or edit in minutes without any special tools or Internet knowledge. Best of all, new visitors to your site will see a fresh, updated site each time they visit-without any effort from you.
Coming Soon-A professional, “instant” web solution for landscape service providers.
Job Link
We have partnered with a couple of companies to help make it easier to find good employees or to find a job for yourself.
Plant for the Cure (PFTC)
Plant for the Cure is a great way to increase sales while serving a worthy cause. For information on this program and how to benefit, click on the link above to see the Plant For the Cure section of the homepage for the Garden Center Management Group.
PLANTAMERICA MarketPlace powered by Purchase Pro Both buyers and suppliers can benefit from participating in the PLANTAMERICA marketplace, a state-of-the-art tool powered by PurchasePro, a leading eCommerce marketplace enabler, and AOL partner. It’s a low-cost, low-risk opportunity for both buyers and sellers to explore the benefits of eCommerce utilizing powerful and proven technology. Buyers also benefit from access to PurchasePro’s community of 20,000 product suppliers covering virtually every product category and suppliers benefit from exposure to 9 million small business AOL users. The PlantAmerica marketplace is scheduled to launch in February 2001.
For the latest on this service, click here.
The Garden Center Management Group
The Garden Center Management Group (gcmgroup) is a management company established in 1996 by professionals with deep independent retail garden center experience. The focus of the company is to return higher profits to its clients by providing assistance with services that either don’t exist in the garden center’s marketplace or are not offered by the garden center’s existing providers.
We’ve provided a list of valuable links to industry related sites.
For the latest on this service, click here.
There’s something going in parts of New York State that may have a ripple effect through the lawn care industry and beyond. It is called the Neighbor Notification Law and is commonly referred to as the 48 Hour Notification Law.
The Neighbor Notification Law of 2000 added new provisions to Title 10 of Article 33 of the Environmental Conservation Law in New York regarding posting of visual notification markers for residential lawn applications, posting of signs at certain retail establishments, and mandating neighbor notification of certain commercial lawn applications. The Neighbor Notification Law as it applies to commercial or residential lawn care is currently only in effect in Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and Albany Counties in New York State, that have adopted a local law to “opt into” the Neighbor Notification Law. This Law became effective on March 1, 2001. This law requires that commercial lawn applicators involved give 48 hour written notice to any abutting properties or other properties, which have a property boundary within 150 feet of the lawn pesticide application site. So how can Pesticide Applicators comply with the Neighbor Notification Law? The Department of Environmental Conservation in New York State has compiled a list of products that are legal for certified applicators or technicians to use that would be exempt from the Neighbor Notification Law. This list includes reduced risk pesticides, biological pesticides and other minimum risk products. Retailers need to comply with the Neighbor Notification Law. Any retailer that sells general use pesticides labeled for commercial or residential lawn application uses must post in a conspicuous place as close as possible to each display location of such pesticides that require the informational signage mandated by the Neighbor Notification Law. Trade associations in New York State are approaching this Neighbor Notification Law in various ways. In an effort to be proactive, some Associations have put together educational packets for their members. These packets include extensive lists of acceptable products that are exempt from the Neighbor Notification Law, how retailers and commercial applicators can comply. Many are kept inform through their newsletters and websites.
To see the law for your self, visit www.nysnla.org and go the members section and you will be directed to the appropriate link.
While this is affecting a relatively minor part of the overall industry, it will make news and other states may pick up on the idea, too. Understanding the law and how you and your industry should be prepared to respond to it (and to see it coming into legislation in your state) might well be worth your while.
We asked a few people associated with the industry their thoughts:
Mark Rupprecht, Executive Director New York State Nursery and Landscape Association –
“We are very concerned about this law. In particular, how it will impact Integrated Pest Management. It will force some procedural changes on the industry. For example, if you have a pest application you usually use which may be less harmful or biological but takes longer, if you have to go through all the trouble of doing the 48 notification, you’re probably going to use something that makes sure the job gets done. And a lot of businesses do pest management as a small portion of their work and they will probably just drop it all together which means more homeowners will be doing it and increase the likelihood of over application or the use of the wrong product. IN brief, this law is bad for the environment.
We favor notification. But we think it ought to be done through a registry which is a proven and successful method that is working in eleven other states.”
Fred Langley, Manager of State Government Relations for Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE) –
“This is a burdensome law and it is very confusing. Though it is a state law, one of the stipulations is that is has to be adopted on a county-by-county basis. The problem is, once a county adopts the law, there is no system of informing or educating the people it will impact. Usually when a law like this is passed, there is already an infrastructure to help the community comply. Now you have a regulated community without the tools or knowledge to follow the regulations. In addition, there is no uniform enforcement policy or mechanism. And there really aren’t any standards. It places an enormous burden on small businesses.”
When asked how this might have a ripple effect, Langley said,” Whenever an activist group that is resistant to the use of pesticides succeeds in pushing through this kind of regulation, it get networked very rapidly and nationally. These groups are very well connected. I’ve heard rumblings of similar legislation in New Jersey and Maryland already.”
Anthony Bedell, Director of Legislative Affairs for ANLA
– Though Bedell focuses his work on national legislative issues, we asked how he thought this might impact other states, Bedell replied, “These kind of issues have a tendency to be regional. I don’t think it will go national or if it does it will take time. It also depends on how strong each state association is. If they have a healthy and mobilized organization, these things can usually be stopped. So the best advice is that if you do have a lobbyist, make sure they monitor this so you can act swiftly and if your state association doesn’t have a lobbyist then you need to explore how you keep abreast of any such new legislation being proposed.”