Welcome to Red Barn Perennials and Trim Tree Nursery

and Trim Tree Nursery

serving Western and Central Pennsylvania

NOTE: We are a 'Wholesale ONLY' nursery. We do not currently provide Mail Order or Retail Services.

We are currently hiring for spring/summer 2010. Click here for our application.

..Welcome to Red Barn Perennials

While whisking away the the thoughts of 2009 and clearing out my office, I pulled copies of trade magazines from five years ago. (Yes, I still have and read hard copies of magazines.)

Here are some of the more relevant topics of 2005 that I came across:

Floriculture was becoming more of a global industry with more offshore farms popping up everywhere. It is much less expensive to produce stock plants and cuttings off-shore, with cheaper labor and land.

The big-box stores were flexing their clout within the industry with new policies that delayed payment from 30 to 60 days, and initiating pay-by-scan programs.

Growers were looking for new plants and learning how to grow them.

Here are a few snipits from current readings:

Growing locally with an emphasis on being able to eat what you grow. Vegetable gardens are IN. An increased awareness of the ecological footprint in all buying decisions.

The big-boxes are limiting grower networks. Less growers in the big-box network means more supply and stagnate, if not shrinking, margins in the industry.

Growers are learning how to grow new plants and to share this info via social media (Facebook, Blogging, Twitter). The idea is to build that one-to-one relationship, to assist the retailer with more knowledge, to minimize shrink and to find ways to make the consumer more engaged with the plant they purchased.

A wise man once told me "The only thing certain about change is that it will happen." One thing that will not change at Trim Tree is our commitment to meet our customer's needs by providing high quality plants that sell.

We wish you the best weekend weather on record, new and innovative products with excellent sell through, and bushels of tomatoes in 2010!

John Cuccaro

Questions and comments should be directed to jcuccaro@redbarnperennials.com.

We're located on US-422, 5 miles West of Indiana, Pennsylvania, operating out of a big red barn, so we're hard to miss. Click here for directions.

Wholesale customers can check current Plant Availability by logging in through our Wholesale link.