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MARCH 21, 2006
Trends: Tabletop
Fount of information... Among life's great mysteries — well, besides that meaning of life stuff and the notion that someone actually ate a snail on purpose and then talked others into doing same — I contend that there's a certain high-ranking slot for that steam that rises from tabletop fountains. Admit it: You've gone to trade shows and stood dumbfounded at the fountain booths trying to figure out, "how do they do that?" — especially after a booth proprietor assured you it has nothing to do with dry ice. Well, I don't know that answer, but I can steer you toward some good resources for tabletop items that might draw a crowd at your booth (and garden center). While some of these sites cater to consumers directly, they also serve as an excellent barometer for gauging "what's out there."

For example, Touch of Class markets a variety of home and gift items, from candle holders to decorative lighting, from clocks and centerpieces to vases. Likewise, the Yahoo.com store, specifically, the "room" that specializes in tabletop water features. This site has online wholesale directories of dozens of new products and updates regularly. Finally, we would be remiss if we didn't mention our friends at Alpine Corp., who do a remarkable job of marketing tabletop products by keeping their online catalog fresh and pertinent. Maybe you, too, know your tabletop from your top of the table. Or maybe you know how that aforementioned water feature steam is formed. If so, log into our blog and spill the beans. And, while you are at it, please check out the rest of these GCP&Se-Zone features.

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Riddle me this...
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
(Scroll down for the answer.)

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March by category
Here, here... Wow, look at all the products... This month, while you're celebrating the springing of Spring, you'll want to check out the items found in the following categories, which appear in the March GCP&S ProductZONE.

 

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Puzzling pictures
Pick me! Pick me!... One of the pictures below is a puzzle. Find the right one and then piece the product together again. If you do, you will become the rave of cool people the hort world over. Or something like that.

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Pick 'n Click
Instant service... Looking for the latest on the latest garden/gift products? These suppliers are geared up to send you the info you need. Click the company for e-reader service.

Achla Designs
Agraquest, Inc.
Allsop, Inc.
Alpine Corporation
Anamese Garden & Home
Aquascape Designs, Inc.
Asian Ceramics
ATLAS Glove Consumer Products
Bamboo Accents
Bar Harbor Cedar
BC Landscape & Nursery Association
Biedermann & Sons, Inc.
Biosafe Systems
Blue Ridge Fish Hatchery
Bottman Design, Inc.
Brass Baron Fountains & Statuary, The
Braun Horticulture
Brook & Hunter
Cedar Creek Products
Charlie Cook Associates, Inc.
Collier Metal Specialties, Inc.
Crescent Trading Group, LLC
Danove Corporation
Discount Pond Supplies, Inc.
DMC Products
Dorothy Biddle Service
Ecological Laboratories, Inc.
Fabriscape
Fast Forward Concepts
Featherock, Inc.
Gardenware
Growers Supply
H & H Manufacturing
H. Potter Conservatory
Haddonstone
Hines Pottery
Horticopia, Inc.
Jackson Pottery
Keystone Steel & Wire
Keystone Wholesale
Kinsman Company, Inc.
  Listo Products
Little’s Good Gloves
Macore Co.
Maine Bucket Company
Messina Wildlife
Michael Gordon LTD
National Lawn & Garden Show
Pacific Northwest Christmas Tree Assoc.
Parker Davis Company
Pharm Solutions, Inc.
Poly-Tex, Inc.
Pond Filtration, Inc.
Red Carpet Studios
Replications Unlimited
Riverside Enterprises
Ruibal’s Topiary Systems & Ironworks
Savio Engineering, Inc.
Schrodt Designs
Sherman Nursery Company
So Cool Products, Inc.
Spec Cast
Spring Meadow Nursery, Inc.
Stonesmith Garden Vessels
Stoney Creek
Strong Marketing, Inc.
Structural Plastics
T-Mate-O
Topiary Art Works & Greenhouses
Triformis Corporation
Trunk Mat Company, The
VAL-CO Environmental & Greenhouse Systems
Water Quality Science International, Inc.
Wellmaster Carts
West County Gardener
Winston Company
Woods International, Inc.
Woodstream
Yard Decor
 

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Oh, yeah, the riddle answer...
(Insert rim shot here)... Mt. Everest



 
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