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About the Rock Star AwardOver the past several years, our Rock Star award has honored ECG employees who demonstrate a sustained high level of performance and inspire others. This month we bestow our final Rock Star Award, as ECG adopts a new employee recognition program for 2023. Our last (but certainly not least) Rock Star Award recipient is Gwyn Engle.pictured, Gwyn Engle (left) with Grower, Tabitha Samuels Slattery.Gwyn started with ECG in the winter of 2016. She has worked in a var

We grow over two dozen varieties of this multifaceted, cosmopolitan genus. Why so many? Because no two are alike. Let’s inventory their assets and characteristics.Size: Our fountain grass offerings range from awww!-some cuties like ‘Little Bunny’, a mere 10 – 12” tall, all the way up to statuesque six-footers in the Royal Collection.Foliage: Name it! At one end of the color spectrum is the bright chartreuse of P. alopecuroides 'Yellow Ribbons’. On the dark side are the Royals, with big, rippling

GHSE 2022The Gulf Coast’s balmy breezes are beckoning us – and you! -- to Mobile, Alabama for the Gulf States Horticultural Expo!This two-day trade show is a Southern highlight. You’ll find your favorite ECG folks in Booth #630, January 20 – 21. There’s also a day of educational seminars on the 19th.It all happens at the Outlaw Convention Center. Don’t be alarmed by the name of the venue. Most of the attendees and vendors are law-abiding green industry folks like you.So swing by our booth for a

It’s practically blasphemy to rank any ornamental grass higher than world-famous Calamagrostis xa. ‘Karl Foerster’. It was the first grass ever named Perennial Plant of the Year, and rightly so. With sturdy vertical foliage and feathery plumes, it’s a handsome workhorse that makes a designer look like a genius. Not surprisingly, it’s among our top sellers. You’ll never hear us dis it.But we WILL say there are other options in the very same species that bring that same legendary reliability – all

Not every plant can look its Sunday best, covered in flowers, every day. Besides, smart gardeners know that the best time to buy is before a plant blooms, so they get to watch it come into its glory.That’s when a picture tag is at its most valuable: It tells a customer what that plant will become, right before their eyes, even if the pot in front of them isn’t loaded with color.We carry full-color, bilingual picture tags for every variety we grow. In addition to that eye-catching image, consumer