Weekend Reading 10/25/24

Welcome to Garden Center magazine's Weekend Reading, a weekly round-up of consumer garden media stories meant to help IGCs focus marketing efforts, spark inspiration and start conversations with consumers.

This week: Rock gardens, electroculture, pallets turned portable gardens and barriers to shopping local.

Rock gardens offer landscaping that can withstand drought and poor soil, Virginia Cooperative Extension expert says, Virginia Tech News

Problematic landscape features such as moderately steep slopes, dry soil and rocks are the perfect environment for a rock garden, according to Virginia Tech.

The ‘Electroculture’ Gardening Trend Is Making a Comeback. Here’s What to Know About It, Sunset Magazine

Sunset Magazine says electroculture, the century-old gardening technique, is making a comeback, thanks to social media’s obsession with quirky garden hacks.

Freedom High School students re-engineer pallets into portable gardens for New Bethany transitional housing, Lehigh Valley Live/The Express-Times

A class of high school engineering students in Pennsylvania created portable gardens out of wooden pallets. Is this something you could do with all your extra pallets, or encourage your customers to do?

Americans want to shop local, but 65% can’t do it as often as they’d like: survey, Retail Brew

Cost, convenience, and product selection are barriers, according to a LendTree survey, Retail Brew reports.

Enjoy your reading, have a great weekend and we'll see you next week!