Leading the all-new 2019 line of Monrovia annuals is the ground-breaking, award-winning and outstanding new addition to the Monrovia family, SunBelievable™ Brown Eyed Girl.

SunBelievable™ Brown Eyed Girl produces 1,000 blooms during the growing season and is super easy to grow. It is the first sunflower plant to continuously bloom from spring to the first frost of the year.

SunBelievable™ Brown Eyed Girl blooms best on shorter days. It is a seedless variety that puts all its energy into flowering!

SunBelievable™ Brown Eyed Girl is heat tolerant and performs great in pots and hot, sunny borders. Flowers rebound quickly after hot/dry spells. And SunBelievable is perfectly and compactly sized at 32 inches high by 40 inches wide.

With our “Spring is SunBelieveable” trade program, you get our free “Spring is SunBelievable” Sales Kit which includes a poster, bench tape and a baseball cap to tie into our extensive print, digital and social marketing campaign.

For more information, visit www.monrovia.com

As a leading wholesaler that provides garden centers across the country with everything from fountains and planters to decorative accessories, Melrose International understands how complementary items can increase profits for our customers.

In fact, we’ve been designing on-trend collections to create a set of unique and sellable items that will appeal to your shoppers since the early 1990s.

Because each collection contains complementary items, garden centers are shopping them to create a lifestyle look that appeals to shoppers and increases basket ring. Four of our top-selling items below showcase how a look can come together:

1. Lanterns: Having a look of salvaged wood, our large lanterns feature a tapered design, glass side panels, and curved, open tops. Decoratively scalloped feet lend added charm. Each has a loop for hanging. Accessories shown are not included. 20.5”H; 29.5”H; 39.75”H Wood/Glass. (Product #74327 SET OF 3)

2. Planter stands: Modern design planters lend an industrial vibe to any space. Long lines of the metal frames taper upward to hold triangular wood plant boxes. Rustic metal inserts are included. Plant not included. 28.25”H; 32.75”H Metal/Wood (Product #74095 SET OF 2)

3. Pots in stand: Galvanized metal vessel pots add interest to outdoor spaces. Each rests on a three-legged stand, having a look of hand-forged ironwork. Plant not included. 13.25”H; 15.25”H Iron (Product #74310 SET OF 2)

4. Table: Our substantial metal table provides durable and stylish versatility both indoors and out. From a potting station, to the focal point of an outdoor gathering, the usefulness of this table is endless. Sturdy metal construction with an “X” pattern arbor. 94.5”L x 35.5”W x 79”H Iron/Wood. (Product #74351)

From wall to floor, Melrose has the items garden centers need to create lifestyle product collections that will inspire shoppers. Inspire them to dream a little bigger. Inspire them to create beautiful outdoor spaces and invest in more items from your store.

Melrose’s collection of products extend beyond the outdoors into the home. That means you can extend outdoor collections into your shop — from candle holders to floral to home decor — to get add-on sales and increase basket ring.

When you shop Melrose, you are buying from more than just a wholesaler. With a mission to provide customers with superior service, quality products, expert design and outstanding value — we believe that by achieving these goals, we can enhance the potential for the success of our customers, representatives and employees. From our reps to our customer service team, we truly care about your success because we know that the more you succeed, the more we will. Visit our website to discover our high-quality products.

For more information, visit www.melroseintl.com

Some years you’re lucky to be in one hot category, but it’s amazing when you get to be in the top three.

David Schemenauer, president of Marshall Home and Garden, says it has been their best year in 27 years as they have been able to ride the crest of the hottest trends in garden.

We all know that succulents are this season’s must have category; what Marshall has brought to the market is the most realistic permanent succulents in the market. “We have even watched retailers who grow succulents become huge advocates of the permanents (artificial) as they find it serves an entirely different customer base from the buyers who love the live goods. Pieces range from a $1 to $3 for most goods and are available in low minimums of 10 pieces per style. What’s fun for me is to have a customer pick one up and still have to ask if it is real or artificial; the quality of these has become almost indistinguishable from the real plants.”

“Fairy gardening and our Woodland Knoll collection continues to be a surprise to us as to how popular it has become. When we first got into this category, we thought it was going to be just a hot, quick trend — now six years into it we are still seeing strong growth. This season we have added over 50 new designs just for spring alone,” Schemenauer says. “Because most of our retailers are now treating it as a permanent category in their stores, it’s our job to keep it fresh — and we do. We will pull back on adding new designs if we see it slow down — but we certainly haven’t seen a sign of it yet and are bringing out our biggest introduction ever.”

Rounding out the hot list for Marshall is their line of wind sculptures. “Our strength is that our pieces are designed to handle windier environments. It’s not just the quality that’s built into the pieces,” Schemenauer says. “But it’s our designs themselves that make the difference. We try to avoid the big flat faces designs that are all over the market, as they can break in higher winds. Ours are designed to work with the wind instead of fighting it — and it makes all the difference.”

For more information, visit http://www.marshallhomeandgarden.com

Epicor’s retail management software provides solutions tailored specifically for garden retailers. Epicor retail solutions gives you the tools you need to resolve stock issues, move inventory quickly, increase margins, and improve cash flow.

We know garden retailers have unique challenges, such as seasonal inventory. This is where our solutions have been customized to support retailers like you to manage your business needs from anywhere in your stores, yards, greenhouses, warehouses or grow sites.

Consumers today are used to getting what they want whenever and wherever they want it. Your lawn and garden retail store can more easily meet these customer expectations with help from updated technology that enables productivity and makes it easier for your employees to deliver top-notch service.

Our tools allow you to go where the work needs to be done. Our mobile technology streamlines your operations so that you can better track and run other parts of your business. Employees can use mobile tools to access real-time inventory data to quickly find specific products, and mobile POS stations can perform customer checkouts anywhere in the store or garden center. When technology boosts your employees’ efficiency, you can do more without adding staff.

You can also make better business decisions if you have better data. Real-time insight into your stock levels, detailed reports about customer buying habits, and access to competitor pricing can help you increase profits and reduce or eliminate dead inventory. With our inventory management tools such as the Inventory Planner, Eagle Mobile+, and Pricing Planner, your organization can reduce your IT efforts and instead focus on serving customers.

With Epicor, users can make purchasing decisions on seasonal products with help from easy-to-use forecasting and analytics tools that will help you determine the right quantities and pricing to drive profitability. Our Eagle N Series solution empowers you to:

• Provide fast answers by using modern, intuitive screens and queries to check inventory, location, pricing and more
• Seamlessly handle credit, debit and card-not-present transactions, while securely capturing electronic signatures when needed
• Save time and improve customer satisfaction with streamlined, automated processing of special orders
• Increase profits with integrated inventory management, purchasing and receiving
• Connect with customers anywhere, anytime through electronic commerce, mobile and wireless channels
• Reduce costs with digital document management capabilities

Make fast, informed management, inventory, pricing and other decisions using intuitive, on-screen reporting and analysis. Eagle software makes all this power remarkably easy to learn and use. Even temporary and seasonal employees become proficient in no time.

Epicor software delivers fast, personal service at checkout with advanced POS and mobile technology. It also pampers customers with streamlined, automated processing of special orders; helps increase profits with integrated inventory management, purchasing and receiving; enables optimized pricing, margins and other aspects of business performance by making fast, informed management decisions using intuitive, on-screen reporting and analysis; and it helps reduce costs and stays connected with customers using electronic commerce, wireless, and document management capabilities.

For more information, visit www.epicor.com