Garden Center 2024 State of the Industry Report

When the Garden Center team made the choice to become a digital-only publication, our world expanded. We were no longer tied to a monthly publishing schedule, and the print borders dissolved into the infinite canvass of the internet.

Today, I feel the promise of that transformation has come fully alive in Garden Center's first ever digital-only State of the Industry Report.

Our State of the Industry Report is a well-established franchise that has allowed us to track the health of the garden center industry for the past 12 years. We’ve documented highs and lows and trends that have come and gone.

In 2024, we find that our industry is starting to focus on its core business as profits and growth mellow with the COVID boom in the rearview. It appears that garden centers are getting back to what they do best: selling plants.

And we’re getting back to what we do best: presenting you the highest-quality data we can collect from our readers and presenting it to you in a way that’s engaging and easy to digest.

In the 2024 SOI, you’ll be able to scroll through and focus on the data that’s most important to you. This report is fully interactive, allowing the data to be as dynamic as the industry it reflects.

Credit for the work goes to the amazing Emily Mills, digital editor of Garden Center magazine, and art director Katelyn Mullen. Their eye toward presenting an amazing experience has created a report you don’t want to miss. So, check it out. Free and open to all.

-Patrick Alan Coleman, Garden Center editor

To read Garden Center's 2024 State of the Industry Report, click on the image below:

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