28 Jul 2016

Landscaping with Purpose Creating a purposeful landscape is a surefire way to increase the beauty and comfort of your home. Landscaping helps blend manmade fixtures like your front walk, swimming pool or your house itself into the natural surroundings and gives you the opportunity to let your creative juices flow. How do you create a […]

10 Jun 2016

2016 Trial Garden Open House Earlier this month, Young’s Plant Farm hosted its annual industry Trial Garden Open House. During this event, breeders, growers and other members of the floriculture industry from around the world joined us to tour our trial garden and see firsthand the true garden performance of a vast variety of plants, […]

05 Apr 2016

North America: Young’s Plant Farm Obtains MPS-A Qualification Started in 2015 with the MPS registration, now the first qualification has been awarded to Young’s Plant Farm: MPS-A. A family owned and operated business, Young’s Plant Farm has been aggressively growing since 1961 when founded by Gene Young. Still a family run company, Young’s has grown […]

03 Mar 2016

Our Trial Garden is Turning 4!   Young’s Plant Farm is about to enter our fifth season of spring and summer annual trial garden evaluations. We developed this program to determine various plant varieties’ true garden performance, which gives us firsthand knowledge about what homeowners might experience when purchasing one of these plants. From the […]

22 Jan 2016

Young’s Hires David Conley as Logistics Director Young’s recently hired David Conley to serve as our new Logistics Director. David is leading the implementation of Truckmate, a new transportation management system that includes Peoplenet software, used by all of our trucks’ on-board computers. Young’s has also installed GPS units on all trailers, in conjunction with […]

05 Jan 2016

Young’s Partners with Software Companies for Replenishment Young’s Plant Farm has partnered with software companies Demand Link and Practical Software to create a replenishment model, which allows us to maximize the retail potential of weekly farm inventory across the 87 Lowe’s stores we service. Demand Link specializes in demand planning and replenishment for seasonal and […]