Eason Horticultural Resources
We are a customer service oriented national horticultural broker, servicing the needs of retail garden centers, wholesale greenhouse growers, nurseries, wholesalers, and landscapers. We partner and consult with our customers to fully understand their needs so we can advise them on purchasing high quality products at a fair price. EHR offers products from over 400 of the best vendors in horticulture, across all facets of the industry. We have the broadest selections of plants, from seeds to trees; from URC’s to container nursery stock; from perennials to tropical flowering foliage. We also offer greenhouse structures for commercial and retail sales. EHR has the products that will fit your needs!
Ellepot USA / Blackmore
At Ellepot, a subsidiary of Blackmore, we dedicate ourselves to helping our customers save money by becoming more efficient and productive, and to grow greener by eliminating plastic pots and bags in propagation.
Jack’s Classic by JR Peters
Made in the USA: The family at JR Peters has been hard at work building fertilizers that keep in mind sustainable practices, efficient manufacturing and local team members. We love our home! Our company has been based in Allentown, Pennsylvania for over 70 years. Our goal is to produce innovative fertilizers and nutrient blends whose quality is unsurpassed using new and traditional blending methods.
The Garden Center Group
The Garden Center Group is North America’s resource for solutions for garden retailing – benchmarking, budgeting, inventory and margins, marketing, merchandising, brand building, property and site design, human resources, team building, succession, and more. We offer direction, support, and step-by-step guidance in some of the most important aspects of operating a successful garden center today to reduce the time and trials of doing it alone.
Gardenex
Gardenex is the UK’s Federation of Garden & Leisure Manufacturers Ltd. Our role is to help UK suppliers to export round the world, and to help international trade buyers to source British gardening and leisure products. Founded in 1961 as a not-for-profit trade association, the Federation’s experienced team works closely with the UK government’s Department for International Trade to encourage and expand our country’s exports.
OrderEase
OrderEase is a technology solution connecting industry supply chains to make wholesale buying and selling fast and easy.
We have created a fully connected and integrated supply chain that provides innovative operational efficiencies, modern sales, and marketing opportunities, and familiar digital ordering experience for suppliers, distributors, and retailers.
The Garden of Words
For the last ten years, Katie Elzer-Peters has been working tirelessly to create an experience that is lively and welcoming for her team, as well as green industry professionals. Our mission here is to digitally shepherd the stewards of this beautiful earth towards marketplace viability and have a blast while doing it. In other words? Our tight-knit team helps farmers, gardeners, greenhouses, nurseries, and everyone who supports their existence to be able to stand out in a sea of large corporations by helping them reach their audiences through impeccable website design and engaging email marketing. By taking that burden on, our clients are able to focus on their businesses to brand new heights.
GardenComm
GardenComm, formerly the Garden Writers Association and GWA: The Association for Garden Communicators, is an organization of professional communicators in the green industry including book authors, bloggers, staff editors, syndicated columnists, freelance writers, photographers, speakers, landscape designers, television and radio personalities, consultants, publishers, extension service agents and more. No other organization in the green industry has as much contact with the buying public as GardenComm members.
Ball Horticultural Company
Proud Diamond Sponsor of the Garden Retail Conference.
Ball Horticultural Company is a leader in all facets of horticulture. Our global family of breeders, research and development teams, suppliers, and distribution companies has a strong presence on six continents in 20 countries. We live by our founder’s motto: “All the Best and Nothing Else.”
AmericanHort
AmericanHort truly represents the entire horticulture industry, including breeders, greenhouse and nursery growers, retailers, distributors, interior and exterior landscapers, florists, students, educators, researchers, manufacturers, and all of those who are part of the industry market chain.
ORGANIZZAZIONE ORLANDELLI
ORGANIZZAZIONE ORLANDELLI is a leading company in planning and manufacturing equipment to improve the handling and display of plants as well as flowers.
For more than 30 years the company has been engaged in the floricultural domain, proposing innovative, practical and efficient solutions like carts for all proposes, displayers for Garden Centres and flower shops , special containers, production benches, landscaping software and more.
We are also present in the US with our branch Orlandelli Group LLC.
Green Profit
Green Profit delivers the technology, consumer trends and eye-popping inspiration retail garden center owners and managers need to help them survive and thrive in today’s ever-changing retail environment. Combined with sister publication GrowerTalks, we cover it all, from must-have new varieties to consumer shopping habits.

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