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Danny Summers, Managing Director PO Box 801494, Acworth, GA 30101
Tel: 678-‐909-‐7770 • Fax: 678-‐909-‐7771 [email protected]
www.thegardencentergroup.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Retailers’ Choice Awards™ at SNA 2015 Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, July 24, 2015 – Retailers’ Choice Awards™ at SNA 2015 were presented to nine exhibiting firms during a presentation on the SNA Stage. The Garden Center Group’s Sid Raisch led the retailer search. Products were selected specifically for garden retailers in search of the best new products both live goods and hard goods for their stores. Following is a list of firms and their products receiving recognition: Allied Award Winners:
Granite Industries Overland Electric Carts Website: http://www.overlandcarts.com With increasing labor challenges, this electric powered material mover has a place in the garden center as well as with the serious gardener. Available in 7, 8 and 10 cu.ft. models, plus 4wd and power dump hydraulic options. Can run up to 7.5 hours continuously on a single charge
GrowTech, Inc. – Booth 513 ARS General Purpose Hand Pruner Website: http://GrowTech.com/HP-‐130DX.html High quality hand pruner with consumer appeal. Available in six colors. Great for the serious gardener who doesn’t want cheap throwaway tools.
High Caliber Growing – Booth 608 Smart Pot Big Bad Bed Website: http://bigbagbed.com/ Growing fabric raised beds in various sizes. Currently available in black and purple with other colors to come soon.
Danny Summers, Managing Director PO Box 801494, Acworth, GA 30101
Tel: 678-‐909-‐7770 • Fax: 678-‐909-‐7771 [email protected]
www.thegardencentergroup.com
Silver Bait, LLC -‐ Booth 211 Wormganic Worm Castings 931-‐692-‐8001 Worm castings are a staple of organic gardening. America’s largest producer of worms and worm castings promises to bring the cost down competitive with other materials. 25# 1 CF bags.
Plant Award Winners: First Editions -‐ Bailey Nurseries – Booth 501 Vitex ‘Blue Puffball’ Website: http://www.firsteditionsplants.com Unique to the world of Vitex, this compact, 3 foot by 3 foot, densely branched shrub, produces copious blue flowers in summer. Foliage is a rich glistening blue-‐green with resistance to leaf spot. Flowers develop on new growth, so prune spent flowers to induce another flush of bloom. Quantum leap forward in Vitex breeding and will be available in 2016. Ball Ornamentals – Booth 613 Mandevilla ‘Summer Romance Double Pink’ Website: http://www.ballseed.com/Growers/plant_info.aspx?phid=040507000004085 Summer Romance Dipladenia and Mandevilla offer a fresh take on this tropical looking plant! Mandevilla Summer Romance Double Pink is truly a unique option for growers and gardeners. This varieties has a large, double pink flowers that instantly catch the eye of any gardener. Summer Romance Double Pink growers very similar to Mandevilla Alice Du Pont. The vigorous viner, will agressively climb any trellis or structure close to it and will thrive in the heat and humidity all the way until fall! Proven Winners/Spring Meadow/Hackney Nursery – Booth 521 Lorepetalum – Jazz Hands Variegated Website: http://springmeadownursery.com/plant/53420 http://www.hackneynursery.com/ Jazz Hands Variegated is the first ever variegated Loropetalum; its new growth is splashed with pink and white variegation, while mature foliage is a rich purple color. This distinctive plant may be used as a specimen or a hedging plant.
Danny Summers, Managing Director PO Box 801494, Acworth, GA 30101
Tel: 678-‐909-‐7770 • Fax: 678-‐909-‐7771 [email protected]
www.thegardencentergroup.com
Plant Development Services Inc. – Booth 721 Mahonia ‘Marvel’ Website: http://plantdevelopment.com/ Statuesque and upright, Marvel’s large frond-‐like leaves develop in whorls along coarsely branched stems. Gorgeous sprays of fragrant, yellow flowers appear in late fall or early winter. Flowers develop into grape-‐like clusters of wax-‐coated black berries by late summer and autumn. Walters Gardens – Booth 704 Hibiscus ‘Starry Starry Night’ Website: http://www.waltersgardens.com/plants/view/?plant=2597 Dark, almost black foliage. 7-‐8” pink flowers produce along the stem rather than just at top.
A special thank you to Tom Kegley and all retailers participating in the Retailers’ Choice Awards™ selection process. The Retailers’ Choice Awards™ presented at SNA 2015 was a joint presentation by SNA and The Garden Center Group. The Garden Center Group, an alliance consisting of over 150 companies, is the industry’s business development resource for garden centers and suppliers. The Group focuses on business solutions designed to help garden centers increase sales, improve operations and retain more profit. With a support team of leading industry professionals offering business management, financial, marketing, merchandising, HR services, facility design, and more, the Garden Center Group provides retailers innovative resources to maximize their potential for success. For information about The Garden Center Group and the services it provides visit www.thegardencentergroup.com or call Danny Summers at 678-‐909-‐7770. For more information about the Southern Nursery Association visit: www.sna.org or call SNA at 678-‐809-‐9992.
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