To thrive in the present and grow in the future, garden brands need to market, target and build relationships. This is important to do with all customers, but particularly crucial in appealing to Millennials. 

Millennials have a desire to create their own path, influencing how and why they opt for one garden brand over a competitor. Often called the "DIY generation", this growing consumer base's preferences will become increasingly important to your garden business. 

Millennials are already extremely powerful - and their buying influence in the garden industry is only budding.

Continue reading to learn 5 tips and tricks to sell and market gardening to Millennials.

The relationship between your garden brand and Millennials is only just beginning.

Millennials, those 18-34, are just learning how to participate in the garden, but establishing yourself as the brand expert now can have benefits for years to come.

Gardening, however, in this generation's eyes looks differently than it has in the past. 

Continue reading to learn about exactly what Millennials want in the garden.

Millennials are unique in the way they communicate, making it necessary for garden brands to reach out in ways that continually appeal to this digital generation. 

On average, Millennials are connected with media 18 hours a day with large portions of those hours being spent browsing the internet and social networking.

Millennials are three times more likely to follow brands that appeal to them than a family member on social networking sites.

Luckily for your garden brand, the odds are in your favor.

Continue reading to learn the ins and outs of how your garden business can best connect with Millennials. 

Marketing, targeting and building relationships with Millennials will help your garden business to thrive in the present and grow in the future.

The question that needs to be answered first before your garden company can begin targeting this powerful demographic is:

Who are the Millennials and what do they value?

To fully connect and effectively market gardening to this powerful generation, your garden business needs to understand Millennials' demographics and psychographics. 

Continue reading to get to know this prominent generation a bit better in order to craft marketing messages that truly resonate.

Everyone in the garden industry wants to know: “How do we reach Millennials?”

Already, Millennials are a bigger generation than the Baby Boomers and have a collective buying power of $200 billion annually.

In Garden Media’s new eBook How to Market Gardening to Millennials, we’re sharing tips and tricks on how to reach this powerful demographic.

Starting now and continuing each Wednesday in July, our GROW! blog will be detailing who the Millennials are, what matters to them, and how to build a long-term brand relationship with this generation.

Let’s start with what you need to know about Millennials – and why this generation is integral to the future of your garden business’ prosperity.

With every trend, there's an anti-trend, also known as an antipode.

Especially in the realm of garden design and outdoor living decor, there's always a multitude of trending styles.

As such, while simple elegance's crisp lines and black/white flower combinations make a subtle statement, the trend's antipode "Frac'd Up" is breaking all the rules.

Frac'd Up garden design and decor rejects neat and tidy. Instead, this garden trend embraces geometric shapes, exemplified by fractions and dimensions with explosions of colors and textures.

Read on to see 3 ways your garden business can leverage the Frac'd Up garden trend to stay on the cutting edge in 2014.

Paperless billing practices, community recycling programs, and post-consumer paper products have saved countless trees.

That's something to get excited about!

We're not out of the proverbial woods yet, though. Over 4 million urban trees are lost each year, according to a study published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.

Revitalizing the tree canopy is important since trees provide a TON of benefits. Green consumers are in-tune to this, which makes planting trees a hot 2014 gardening trend.

Your gardening business can (and should) be the perfect place for garden customers to get started.

Keep reading to learn 3 ways you can capitalize on this scorching hot garden trend in 2014!

As the buy local, live local movement continues to thrive, this trend is still growing in 2014 with cultur-vating.

Gardeners are taking local to the next level this season.

Instead of simply buying local, they're growing local plants and flavors - and blending it with their international heritage.

Gardeners crave this duality of culture and plants for spring and summer 2014.

Discover how your garden business can use the cultur-vating garden trend to give your customers what they want this season.

From Google Glass to virtual reality headsets, the way we communicate as a society is ever-evolving. But, never before have the changes been so drastic or rapid.

As communication habits change, gardening businesses need to follow suit in order to stay current and continually resonate with customers. Plus, being at the forefront of these trends allows you to better attract younger, new gardeners to your business.

Read on to learn the top four ways communication is changing--and how your garden business can use these progressions to modernize the way you do business.

The localized food and healthy eating trend continues to grow and people are no longer limiting themselves to basic tomatoes and peppers in their yard.

Instead, home gardeners want to take their edibles to the next level — think quinoa, unique berries, kale and dandelions. In fact, food plant and seed sales have surpassed ornamental plant sales.

Superfoods are a growing trend (literally!), and your gardening customers are craving these healthy, disease-fighting fruits and veggies this year.

Learn how superfoods are impacting your garden business this season — and three tips on marketing the garden trend to boost your bottom line, too.