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April showers bring May flowers.Mayflowers bring Pilgrims.Winter production brings April liners.April liners bring spring and summer profits. Our prolific production teams kept the beat going all winter. Now that spring is in the process of springing, you can reap the rewards of their efforts with ready-to-rock starters! Perennials du JourDelosperma (Ice plant)Ignore the pooh-poohers who said it wouldn’t last: America’s love affair with succulents is still hot & heavy after all these y

April showers bring May flowers. Mayflowers bring Pilgrims. Winter production brings April liners. April liners bring spring and summer profits. Now that's poetry! Our prolific production teams kept the beat going all winter. Now that spring is in the process of springing, you can reap the rewards of their efforts with ready-to-rock perennials and grasses! Grasses du JourHelictotrichon (Blue oat grass)This versatile genus can handle full sun, full shade, and every level

If there’s a garden grass that your average gardener knows by name, it’s ‘Karl Foerster’. This eponymous creation of the legendary plantsman was the first ornamental grass named Perennial Plant of the Year.Naturally, we know (and grow) lots more, but this is the one to know if you know only one. It’s famous worldwide for its beauty, adaptability and ease of culture.Prolific breeder and author Karl Foerster (1874-1970) introduced over 600 plants and wrote two dozen books. His breeding motto was “

Geography Lessons in the GardenA good mixed perennial garden can be a trip around the world – or at least across a continent or two. Today’s tour involves a plant whose name sounds deceptively like a land it did NOT come from. Nepeta kubanica Neptune (‘Bokratune’ PP29556)Is that a funky way to spell Cuba, land of cigars and Castro? Nyet! The specific epithet refers to “big-leaf catmint’s” ancestral home on the Kuban Peninsula in Southern Russia, on the Black Sea. This particular beauty was bred

About the Rock Star AwardOur Rock Star award honors ECG employees who demonstrate a sustained high level of performance and inspire others. This month, put your hands together for Alysia Reed.Alysia started with Emerald Coast Growers back in 2006. She will have been with us for 15 years this Spring.Among Alysia’s nominators was Vice-President of Sales and company co-owner Cheri Markowitz. As for her job title, Cheri rattled off “Account Receivables/Credits & Claims Processing/Customer S