Awards program will give $5,000 in plants to nonprofit groups and organizations that are “greening” their communities Omaha, Nebraska (Vocus/PRWEB) January 05, 2011 Nominations are now being accepted for the 2011 Nature Hills Nursery Green America Awards, which are designed to give national recognition and $5,000 in plants to community groups and organizations that are improving their local environments.

SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers (CANGC) announced today that combined impacts of the homebuilding collapse, recession, drought, and other factors hit hard in 2008-2009 to reduce annual farm-gate sales of nursery products by California nurseries by $688,000,000 to $3.3 billion compared to $4.0 billion in 2007-2008, down 17.5%, according to Hoy Carman, an agricultural economist at University of California-Davis.

NEW YORK, June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Griffin Land & Nurseries, Inc. (Nasdaq: GRIF) ("Griffin") announced that its landscape nursery business, Imperial Nurseries, Inc.

By Rebecca McCarthy, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Mar. 27--From diversifying services and products to reducing inventory, Gwinnett's small plant nurseries are working hard to survive Georgia's historic drought. Last fall was a disaster for many in the green industry.

By Dave Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Feb. 3--It may not look like it at first glance, but January is a very busy time for those in one of Whatcom County's largest -- and often overlooked -- agriculture industries.