Episode 766: Adding a flower farm and floral shop to a retail nursery center with Delisa Hiel of Gardenwerks in Helena, Montana

About this episode

Delisa Hiel discusses the integration of a flower farm and floral shop into a retail nursery center.

Back in 2018, we included Retail Garden Centers Adding Floral Design Services as one of our trends to watch in the annual Slow Flowers Floral Insights and Industry Forecast. I noted the early wave of retail nurseries and garden centers opening or reviving in-house floral shops with a distinctly local emphasis.As it turns out, that’s […] The post Episode 766: Adding a flower farm and floral shop to a retail nursery center with Delisa Hiel of Gardenwerks in Helena, Montana appeared first on Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing .

People in this episode

Host: Debra Prinzing

Guest: Delisa Hiel

Topics covered

• flower farming
• retail nursery
• floral design
• local emphasis
• business trends

Keywords

• flower farm
• floral shop
• retail nursery
• Gardenwerks
• local floral design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gardenwerks

Places: Helena, Montana

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