Healthy lifestyle: the new craze.

Not only are consumers interested in healthy consumption, but the 2015 Garden Trends Report says they are becoming more conscious about the wellness aspects of their activities and purchases as well.

Consumers want to engage with brands that help to support their goal of achieving a healthy lifestyle and all around well-being.

Read on to learn about how your garden brand can market a healthy-lifestyle. 

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the past year and give thanks to the people and things that prove inspiring to you. 

Garden industry insiders are thankful for a lot of things: beautiful plants, loyal, quality brands and talented people who cultivate new ideas. 

In honor of the upcoming holiday, here’s a list of what we at Garden Media give thanks for every year.

Continue reading to learn what Garden PR Pros will give thanks to this Thanksgiving.

It’s no secret that Millennials have become the key influencers of new products across a wide variety of industries.

Gardening is no exception.

Brands looking to stay relevant in the garden industry and appeal to this powerful consumer must adopt what we have coined in our 2015 Garden Trends Report, a “portable gardening” attitude.

Whether developing a new market strategy or looking to appeal to a different target audience, it’s key for garden brands to remain flexible and keep looking ahead so that they can quickly fill the ever-changing needs of their consumers.

Read on to learn why garden brands must adopt a “portable gardening” attitude.

Uber, the ridesharing service best known for picking up patrons with the touch of an App, transported another type of precious cargo Wednesday, Oct. 29, - kittens.

Adoptable kittens.

Uber, Cheezburger and the ASPCA combined National Cat Day strategy purrrrrfectly. Their partnership demonstrates what brands can accomplish when they capitalize on relevant news stories and market to consumers in real-time.

Continue reading for tips on how your garden brand can take advantage what’s trending. 

Today is the official release of our 2015 Garden Trends Report:“Unearthing the Best Life."

“Unearthing the Best Life” identifies nine consumer trends that will shape the garden and outdoor living industry and resonate in the coming year.

The highly anticipated trends report, published annually since 2001, finds that gardening goes hand-in-hand with a healthy lifestyle.

Read on to find out the components that are fueling this sustainable lifestyle and contributing to eco-friendly gardens and outdoor spaces.

Garden industry jargon is sometimes as colorful as flowers themselves.

While insiders are familiar with terms like “annuals,” “nursery” and “landscape,” other words aren’t as common.

Recently, PR Daily released a list of made-up words useful for a variety of everyday situations.

In the spirit of sharing (and ‘making things up’), here is a list of terms Garden Media Group coined to describe what’s trending in our industry.

Keep an eye out for our 2015 trends report!

Keep reading to learn more about Garden Media Group’s trend jargon.

Great brands realize that sometimes the best ideas come from outside of the office.

Social media crowdsourcing can be used as a way to find ideas, content and solutions from a large group of people who care about your product. 

The goal of digital crowdsourcing is to obtain information or services from your digitial fans. Many brands are using social media crowdsourcing to expand their product line and engage consumers. 

For example, are you stuck between two flower varieties to bring to market in the next year? Have your garden brand fans vote on which they like more. They'll feel value and immediately become invested in what your brand is working on. 

Read more below to learn how your brand can benefit from crowdsourcing.

Looking to give your business a productivity boost as the dog days of summer roll in?

Well, it may only be a plant away. That's right! Add a houseplant to inspire productivity, create a calming work atmosphere and even reduce stress.

Luckily for your garden business, there are so many ways to use plants and the natural world at large to motivate and boost employee productivity.

Learn how your garden brand can become more successful by incorporating indoor plants and more greenery into the work day.

Digitally-driven Millennials may be more of a target audience for your garden business than you guessed - especially since they care about the environment. In fact, 29% want to make the world a better place. 

Millennials want to recycle, repurpose and up-cycle anything and everything. And let’s not forget, they are a huge up-and-coming demographic for retail; we're talking $200 billion in annual buying power.

Your garden brand needs to take advantage of this generation's interest in sustainability and show them how gardening can help them be better stewards of the earth.

Read on to find out what garden trends matter to Millennials in the garden and outdoor living world.

“What’s trending now" has always been a hot news topic.

Now, however, news segments are getting trends directly from social media sites.

Even the Today Show and Good Morning America, the two biggest morning news shows, both feature special segments on what’s trending, frequently driven by social content.

As audiences show they're continually interested in trend stories, it’s time for your garden businesses to help get the word out, too.

Discover how your gardening business can use social media trends to craft timely pitches and branded content below.