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About the Rock Star Award Our Rock Star award honors ECG employees who demonstrate a sustained high level of performance and inspire others. This month, that description fits Jonathon Simmons, who joined us in the autumn of 2020. He has become a valued member of our Grass Production Crew at Milton. Here’s what his peers and managers had to say in selecting him for the honor.“I would like to nominate Jonathon Simmons. He has become a key player in grass production. Jonathon is also extremel

Here’s a perennial you may not have considered. Colorful, easy to grow, drought-tolerant once established – and with eye-catching fall colors, to boot! ‘Ascot Rainbow’ lives up to the colorful part of its name with striking, yet subtle, gray-green leaves edged in gold. Come cool nights, the foliage becomes suffused with ever-deepening reds. It’s an autumn display worth waiting for. Culture NotesThey don’t come much simpler. Give it full sun or very light shade, and keep it irrigated until it’s

Isn’t it great when a bunch of friends drop by? You know, like two or three busloads?That was the situation at our northern growing location recently: We hosted a tour of our greenhouses and trial gardens as part of the Perennial Plant Association’s National Symposium in Lancaster, PA.A good time was had by all despite high temperatures and humidity. Growers, designers, educators, writers, bloggers, retailers, customers and competitors alike strolled the grounds until they felt at home. We made

Recently, the Perennial Plant Association held its Covid-delayed 2022 National Symposium in Lancaster, PA. Emerald Coast Growers is pleased to announce that the Association chose to honor our Marketing Manager, John Friel, with the Garden Media Promoter Award.PPA says, “This award distinguishes a nominee … whose educational and promotional efforts result in heightened public awareness of the work done by the perennial plant industry.” John’s efforts include the Emerald Coast Growers starter

Known variously as creeping phlox or moss phlox, early-flowering Phlox subulata is a familiar friend, a welcome harbinger of spring. Its cheerful five-petaled blooms blanket slopes and spill over walls. We hear you: It’s hard to even imagine spring, let alone plan for it, while the dog days are still raging, hot and humid. But this really is the time to do just that.A crop of Phlox subulata planted in late summer / early fall has oceans of time to fill its containers with vigorous roots. So