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The just-ended MidAtlantic Nursery Trade Show is the premier green industry event on the East Coast. It’s the winter show that jumpstarts the new season.Those who attended know that the 2022 show was like, and unlike, all previous editions. As usual, it was big, upbeat and optimistic. As always, Emerald Coast Growers was there with our industry-standard grass and perennial liners.Yes, attendance numbers were down, and numerous booths vacant, for several reasons: Travel restrictions, flight cance

It’s a Grass Grass Grass!The Perennial Plant Association has picked a Perennial Plant of the Year every year for over three decades. In all that time, only three grasses were so honored... until now!Next year, one of our favorite native grass species will join this elite group. Give it up for Schizachyrium scoparium, a.k.a. “Little bluestem!”We grow ten (10) outstanding varieties of this nifty number, and guess what? They’re ALL the Perennial Plant of the Year! The award is shared by the whole s

Put your hands together for the ECG supergroup!Our monthly Rock Star award came into being in 2020. It’s designed to honor ECG employees who demonstrate a sustained high level of performance and inspire others.Our winners don’t have an album. Their greatest hits are their hard work, day in and day out, and their names are music to our ears. Let’s hear it for them again!ROCK STAR WINNERS 2021December 2021Maria Garcia MateosPicking Supervisor“Maria has helped navigate some heavy pick lists, pickin

About the Rock Star AwardOur Rock Star award honors ECG employees who demonstrate a sustained high level of performance and inspire others.Our final Rock Star of 2021 goes to Maria Garcia Mateos.Maria Garcia Mateos with ECG's Pensacola Manager, Chris Brown  Maria first came aboard as an ECG employee in 2005, and has risen to the position of picking supervisor at our Pensacola location.In The Sound of Music, the cast sings, “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” At ECG, the song goes, “Ho

The color gurus at Pantone have anointed “Very Peri” as THE color for the coming year.In its usual flowery prose, Pantone describes Very Peri as a “red violet infused blue hue” that inspires “carefree confidence” and “bold curiosity.” It’s so cool, it’s “a symbol of the global zeitgeist.” Wow!At ECG, we pay attention to this annual decision. Why? Because your customers do. Confidently, curiously or unconsciously, home gardeners will see, and buy, Veri Peri even if they’ve never heard of the Col