Look: OFA 2013

OFA 2013: A photo gallery of highlights from this year's Short Course in Columbus, Ohio.

Garden Center Tour

Before OFA 2013 officially kicked off, retailers had the opportunity to tour different garden centers in Ohio. Black Diamond Nursery with locations in Toledo and Perrysburg,  Hoen's Garden Center & Landscaping in Holland and Oak Park Landscape and Water Garden Center in Swanton were stops on the tour. Photos with highlights from the tour are included in the slideshow above. For more OFA coverage, click here.

Below are captions for the photos.

1. Birdbath display at Black Diamond Nursery.

2. Black Diamond Nursery, part of the 2013 OFA Garden Center Tour.

3. Black Diamond Nursery promoted social media within displays.

4. Dennis Snow, keynote speaker at OFA 2013.

5. Rustic birdhouses at Hoen's Garden Center & Landscaping.

6. Hoen's uses simple wooden signs to label departments.

7. Hoen's offers more than 100 varieties of herbs.

8. Fairy gardening is big at Hoen's, part of the OFA 2013 Garden Center Tour.

9. A place for kids at Hoen's Garden Center.

10. Oak Park Landscape & Water Garden Center specializes in fairy gardening.

11. Employees at Oak Park build fairy gardening houses.

12. Oak Park makes these garden beads in house. You can stack them to create various water and light features, tables and more.

13. Oak Park offers an array of pond plants and supplies, and tests pond water for free.

14. The GIE Media Horticulture Group competed in the BASF Growers Pyramid.

15. Trade show floor at OFA 2013.

16. A display in Garden Center Live! at OFA 2013

17. New retail booth concept for the 2014 Short Course.

18. Trade show floor at OFA 2013.

19. Ron Cramer, new president of AAS.