PlantAmerica – The Landscape Network

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.