Welcome to Nurseries Across America: NMPRO's 2004 Great States Tour! Join me in visiting 12 of the top nursery states in the country.

Each month, guest editors from the featured state will write welcome columns, followed by Q&A-format articles with experts on hot topics from the state. It’s a great way to find out what nurseries in these regions are facing.

Next, you’ll find a fact box loaded with statistics and interesting tidbits about the state.

Finally, we’re going to wrap up the tour with three stops at nurseries that, we feel, give you a cross-section of what commercial horticulture in that state is all about. We’re going to feature growers big and small, producing a wide array of plants.

We’ll show you how they grow their crops and get them to market. These snapshot articles will get to the point and show you how these companies succeed, and what they plan for the future.

Let's get started! To view the topics in this series, select from the list of states on the navigation bar. Each link becomes active as we publish the tour stop in the magazine.