Greenhouse Management

Greenhouse Management has released its 2026 trial report focused on what it calls the Hopeful Consumer's Accidental Neglect, examining how buyers' good intentions with plants and garden products often fall short in practice. The report looks at trial results in the home and garden sector for the coming year and what inconsistent care habits mean for growers and retailers.

Greenhouse Management is highlighting an approach that lets growers operate their greenhouse production and their retail garden center through a single software system, instead of managing the two sides of the business separately. The idea is to connect crop planning, inventory and sales in one platform for operations that both grow plants and sell them directly to customers.

Suntory has announced its five strongest trial garden varieties heading into the 2027 season, as reported by trade outlet Greenhouse Management. The Japanese breeder, known for its ornamental plant lines, uses trial gardens to showcase new flower genetics to growers and retailers ahead of commercial rollout. Growers in the horticulture industry are watching the picks as a signal of upcoming trends.

Maine is looking to its 18 million acres of forest—the largest unfragmented tract in the eastern United States—to help meet its climate goals. The forests offset at least 60 percent of the state's total greenhouse gas emissions each year, making forest management a central piece of Maine's climate strategy.

A new study reports that brown lacewings, insects used in biological pest control, show better rearing results when fed storage mites rather than the traditionally used aphid diet. The finding could matter for mass-rearing programmes that supply lacewings for greenhouse and agricultural pest management, offering a more practical or effective alternative food source for commercial production.