Your Garden Center Buyer Guide 2021 www.luurtsema.com 1-800-253-2052 Luurtsema Sales Staff

Dean Luurtsema David Luurtsema [email protected] [email protected] VP Finance VP Production

Ryan Weaver Chuck Timmer Jason Ritsema [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sales Manager Account Manager Transportation Manager Phone: 1-800-253-2052 FAX: 1-800-238-1681 1-616-669-9301 1-616-669-9678

Web: www.luurtsema.com

We would love to sit down with you and discover how Luurtsema Sales can help your Garden Center grow! Getting Acquainted with Luurtsema Sales

fresh Our Story:

In 1946, Henry Luurtsema established Luurtsema Sales and it has remained a family business for three generations. Relationship building has been at the core of our business plan. Many of our customers have been with us for over 30 years. The foundation of our business is consistently delivering high quality and innovative products.

Our Goal: We are here to be your garden center solution. Every retail location has unique needs and opportunities. We will help meet those needs and opportunities with our product line and services. Allow us to work with you to create a customized program. Since 1946 the Luurtsema family has been known for our quality, service, and integrity. We are committed to the USA, so we have invested in molds to move an increasing portion of our container production to USA. We offer a recycling program with POP, free of charge to our customers to encourage recycling.

Our Solution: We offer a full line of annuals, perennials, vegetables, succulents and much more. Our quality, and our service gives you an advantage over your competition. We have small minimums, short lead times. *We never charge delivery fees, drop charges, or fuel surcharges. We have 2,285,000 sq ft of greenhouse space near our 51,000 sq ft distribution facility designed to provide the best quality and freshest product on the market. We have invested in technology to improve our process from order to delivery. This has increased our ability to provide quality and accuracy of your orders.

* When minimums are followed www.luurtsema.com 1-800-253-2052 Shipping Schedule, Minimums, Racks Shipping Schedule Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicago Indiana Central IL Southern, MI Southern, MI Southern, MI Quad Cities Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana Southern, MI Wisconsin Quad Cities Northern, MI Kentucky Northern, MI Eastern, WI

Minimums We have a two rack minimums* *Check with your sales rep if you have questions on determination of racks

Racks • Four types of racks • All racks are the same size: • All racks have a metal sign 90” Tall x 32” Wide x 61” Deep with our name and phone number • All Racks have 4 swivel casters • Galvanized silver 5, 6 shelf racks 2 with wheel locking levers

11 - Shelf Bedding 6 - Shelf Specialty 5 - Shelf Specialty Adjustable Shelf Rack Rack Rack Specialty Rack

Number of shelves: 11 Number of shelves: 6 Number of shelves: 5 Number of shelves: 2-11 Avg. shelf height: 8” Avg. shelf height: 16” Avg. shelf height: 20.25” Avg. shelf height: adj w/n 4” 2021 Limited Products Instant Gratification for Dianthus Coronet New Gardeners! Great Impulse Purchase Biggest blooms of any dianthus Tomato, or tomato combo with White pot makes flowers pop, pepper or herb. Great support and come in a palette of show cage and makes moving easy stopping color choices

Garden’s were tried by many in Hardy in cool weather, so great 2020 and surveys say they will early season product with long try them again in 2021 shelf life.

Be ready to inspire and promote Dianthus re-bloom all summer with this Container Garden long. producing fruit weeks ahead of 3.6 Qt 3.4L 12” 2.26G/8.56L Item #747 other gardeners! Item #682

Luurtsema Sales goal is to be in the forefront of our industry. We look for new varieties that will perform well all season long for our customers. We trial the industries 2022 plants and containers with the simple goal to bring you the very best! We listen to the customer and try to anticipate the trends and colors to keep you current and edgy.

New symbol used in book to indicate #1 Pot Landscape Plants - pk 6 New container or 3 Grasses, 3 Shade Textured, 5 Flowers Item #623 product!

We Recycle! Return your plastic containers Recycling to us!

Free • Great for the environment Promotional eco friendly - reuse of plastics

All plastic pots and trays returned to this location will be reused or recycled. Sign • Lowers disposal costs recycle instead of disposal, and keeps garden center clean and organized Luurtsema Sales will leave one delivery cart • Easy to implement at your location with the first delivery of the everything provided at no cost season. Use that cart to collect the plastic pots, trays, and baskets. We will pick up the recyclables with the next delivery and leave another empty cart. The plastics are returned to our facility where If Greentailing is your business, they are sorted; we reuse as many items as recycling should be your practice. possible, and recycle the rest.

www.luurtsema.com 1-800-253-2052 Geraniums Available in a rainbow of colors providing beautiful texture and color to your guests containers.

5” Cutting Geraniums pk 8 6” Martha Washington pk 6 6” Martha Washington 5” Geranium pk 8 4” Seed Geranium w/handle pk 6 Geranium Pk 6 Item #520 Item #603 10” Cutting Geranium Container 10” Cutting Geranium w/spike 12” Calliope Geranium

4” Seed Geranium pk 6 Item #420

10” Geranium Container Item #651

12” Calliope Geranium Item #6762 10” Geranium Container Item #651 Baskets

10” Premium Basket Item #310

Scroll Design Basket 12” Decostone Basket Item #336 Item #327

Coco-lined Cone Basket Item #328 12” Nature’s Premium 10” Fern Basket Item #331 Item #314

14” Deluxe Fiber Basket Item #323 Flower Pouches 12” Fiber Basket Item #325 Item #330 Proper spacing in the greenhouse, quality plant material, and careful handling during shipping make Luurtsema’s baskets the right choice for your customers. www.luurtsema.com 1-800-253-2052 Early Spring Products

Get your season started off right with early color and texture 6” Martha Washington Geranium pk 6 and the scents of spring! 10” Primavera Planter Item #603 Item #667

Available in: 5” Phlox 6” Pansy Planter 6” Martha Washington Geranium 10” Primavera Planter 10” Scrumptious Pansy 10” Early Spring Annual Bowl 6” Scrumptious Pansy 5” Phlox Item #604 Item #6073 5”

Available Mid March to Mid April

10” Early Spring Annual Bowl 10” Scrumptious Pansy Bowl Item #698 Item #6681 Containers

10” Red, White 8” Square Planter Premium Planter Box Blue Pot w/Flag Item #6401 Item#670 Item #654

Great selection of size, price, color, and texture to ensure your customer’s 12” Butterfly Planter satisfaction 24” Deck Rail Planter Item#657 Item #6381

12.5” Petal Planter 14” Mixed Color Item #653 10” Annual Pot Bowl/Insert Item #650 Item #662

10” Sunflower Planter 15” Premium 10” Zinnia Planter Item #6375 Combo Planter Item #656 Item #642 www.luurtsema.com 1-800-253-2052 Specialty Annuals

#1 Pot’s are all Award Winning varieties or plants requested by the customers. Sized to be great as stand alone or to use in combinations 50 per shelf

#1 Pot Night Sky #1 Pot Premium Vinca Designer Petunia Item # 614 Item #619

#1 Pot Lemon Grass Item #800

#1 Pot Pollinators - 7 Varieties Item #617 #1 Pot Landscape Plants - pk 6 3 Grasses,3 Shade Textured, 5 Flowers Item #623 Living Textures

Living Textures Watering Can 11” Succulent Planter Item # 8083 Item #8081 Trending Succulent products to differentiate you from your competitors!

10” Premium Ceramic Succulent Planter Item #8079

12” Premium Succulent Planter Living Texture Planter Item #8089 Item #8082

3.5” Delospema 3.5” Living Texture Starters Item # 8075 Item #8087 www.luurtsema.com 1-800-253-2052 Premium Designer Begonias

8” Designer Begonia Item #6591 Great as desktop planter or great size to create your own container around.

Premium Designer Begonia Fern/Begonia Combo 2.38 gal 9.0l Item #6594

Available Colors Proven Winners

Inspiring your customer’s to make their world more beautiful. Proven Winner is nationally advertised.

#1 Plant Brand, follow them on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, for great gardening videos and DIY Ideas. .

Check out our sample order form Grande Pot pk 10 for complete list of varieties and Item #445 colors. Wave Petunias

Inspiring Gardeners Since 1995

4” Wave pk 12 EZ Wave 3/06 with handle Item #454 Item #458

10” Wave Basket 12” Wave Container Item #310 Item #676

Easy Wave Series Shock Wave Series Wave Series • Grow beautiful containers • Petite flowers in high voltage • Creates a ground-hanging and beds fast and easy color for small spaces carpet of color • Height: 6 to 12 inches • Height: 7 to 10 inches • Height: 4 to 6 inches • Spread: 2.5 to 3 feet • Spread: 2.5 to 3 feet • Spread: 3 to 4 feet

Easy Wave Colors Easy Wave Colors Cont. Blue The Flag Mix Silver Berry Velour Violet Burgandy Star White Burgandy Velour Yellow Shock Wave Easy Wave Tidal Wave Wave Great Lakes Mix Lavender Sky Blue Shock Wave Colors Coral Crush Wave Colors Neon Rose Opposites Attract Mix Denim Purple Classic Pink Passion Pink with a Vein Plum Pudding Mix Purple Deep Red Purple Tie-Dye *Rose Fusion Rose * Indicates New South Beach Mix Sparkler Mix Silver Volt Mix www.luurtsema.com 1-800-253-2052 Essential Accents

Thrillers: Fillers: Big bold accents that Build the bridge between use their tall height and the tall, bold accents and distinct form to create the cascading or spiller the “centerpiece” plants. Fillers add lush of a combination shape, texture, and visual balance to the pot.

Item #363 Spillers: Accents that cascade over the container and soften its edges while connecting the Pk 18 per flat 13.0 oz 384 ml per unit plants to the pot.

Gazania Purslane Zinnia Zahara Hypoestes Gypsophilia Mexican Heather Mix Magenta (shown) 7 Colors Pink (shown), Scarlet, Yellow Red, White

Coleus Sweet Potato Vine Grasses Spikes Sprengeri Vinca Vine Raspberry Tart (shown) 4 varieties Optical(shown) 2 colors 11 varieties 10 varieties

Assorted Ivy Licorice Wandering Jew Goldilocks Lamium 3 varieties White (shown) 3 varieties Purple, Lysimachia White Nancy Licorice Petite Red, Green/Yellow Bedding Annuals & Vegetables Assorted Veggies Hot Peppers Beans- Habanero Broccoli Cayenne Long Slim Brussel Sprouts Hungarian Hot Cabbage Jalapeño Cantaloupe Red Chilli Cauliflower Poblano Celery Serrano 6/06 Bedding Annuals 8/04 Fruit/Vegetables Pk 4 Cucumber Tomatoes Item #250 Item #258 Eggplant Beefmaster Greens - Big Beef Ageratum Kale Alyssum Better Boy Kohlrabi Better Bush Asters Lettuce, Begonia Bronze Big Boy Onion Big Beef Begonia Green Parsley Celosia Celebrity Pickles Champion Cleome Spinach Coleus Early Girl Squash Jet Star Cosmos Sweet Corn Dahlia Jubilee Swiss Chard Juliet - Dianthus Watermelon Dusty Miller Lemon Boy Zucchini Patio Flowering Cabbage Sweet Bell Flowering Kale Pineapple Gazania Better Belle Red Cherry Impatiens Golden Cal Wonder Roma Lobelia California Wonder Rutgers Marigold Keystone Giant Green Super Fantastic Moss Rose Purple Beauty Sweet 100’s Nicotiana Red Beauty Yellow Pear Pansies Yolo Wonder Red Petunia Sweet Non Bell Salvia Banana Sweet Snap Dragon Cubanelle Stock Pimento Torenia Verbena Vinca Viola Zinnia Item #258 Premium Annuals 4” pk 12 & 5” pk 8

Angelonia Archangel Non-stop Begonia Caladium Osteospermum Coleus Flame Thrower Petunia Dahlia Dahlietta Portulaca- Dahlia City Lights Sunpatiens - Dragon Wing Begonia Thunbergia Fiesta Double Impatiens Whopper Begonia Fuchsia Upright- Sunbeam 4” pk 12 Premium Annuals Gerbera Daisy Item #448 Geranium Cut Geranium - Ivy Gryphon Begonia Kong Coleus Lantana New Guinea Impatiens

5” pk 8 Premium Annuals Item #501 Check order form on line for current availability! www.luurtsema.com 1-800-253-2052 4” Classic vegetables & herbs Grown for generations!

4” Diameter Pot (1.00 pt/473ml) Blue Pots Hybrids Item #753 Red Pots Herbs Item #718 Orange Pots Heirloom Item #697 6 pack with Flat Talker Tag • 6 Pack allows for more • Flat Talkers gives customers. diverse inventory. confidence to buy! • Broad selection of hybrid • Check out extensive list of and heirloom fruits and varieties on the order form vegetables. Tried and true varieties that ensure success

Heirlooms are dependable like many things created in the past. The seed has been passed down for over 50 years. It is open pollinated and has exceptional flavor.

Hybrids are birthed to be disease resistant. Produce uniform fruit in greater volume.

Gardening Stats for 2020 Tomato Types All tomato varieties fall into one of two types: Gardeners spent 42% more time gardening 2020 Determinate: bush tomato, more compact, plant sets all COVID improved garden interest by 48% fruit at same time, then plant dies. 2020 had young home owners garden more Indeterminate: Vine tomato, produces fruit till frost, People working from home gardened 39% more requires staking In 2020 82% of gardeners felt successful Good to plant some of each type in a garden. Axiom Marketing Survey 2020 Living Salad Bowl • 14” bowl 3.4 gallons (12.87 l) • Large Informative tag • Great for people with limited space • 4 great recipes, three with herbs, one kale • A unique impulse item • 8 to a shelf

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The Living Salad Bowl is an eclectic mix of popular herbs and lettuces growing in a large patio bowl. When placed in a convenient, sunny location and kept well-watered, the Living Salad Bowl will continue to grow all summer providing a full season of fresh salads! Item #6651 Tried and true varieties that ensure success Berry Bloom B X 8” 12” x 8” Berry Bloom Box Everbearing Strawberries Item #743 Great product for new gardener or the instant gratification crowd. Fruit will come earlier, so more This handcrafted wooden Berry Bloom Box will be time to enjoy! great on a patio or table top. Providing fresh, delicious berries all summer long!

8” Container Item #699 Container Gardening For the space confined or new gardener, this We offer 8“ Burpee product will give them fruit faster and with in great tasting frequent fertilizer feeding will keep fruit coming Tomato’s, Peppers, all season long. Vegetables and Herbs Durable caging provides great vining support, 12” 2.26G/8.56L and easy moving. Tomato or Combo w Herb or Item #747 Pepper

www.luurtsema.com 1-800-253-2052 Perennials & More

Qt. pk 12 & #1 Pot Qt. pk 12 Qt. pk 12 & #1 Pot Assorted Daylilies Assorted Perennials Assorted Hostas Item # 822 Qt Item #820 Item #824 Qt, #798 #1 Pot Item #797 #1 Pot

Creeping Phlox #1 Pot #1 Pot 5” Container, #1 Pot Assorted Perennials Asiatic Lily Item #8073 5” Item #806 Item #8063 Item #807 #1 Pot

We have worked hard to select the most popular varieties proven to perform well in the garden, assuring you the best selection #1 Pot for your guests. Ornamental Grass Item #804

Natural Pest

5” Citronella pk 8 Deterrents 4” & #1 Pot Lemon Grass Item #585 Item #718 4” pk 6 Item #800 #1 Pot

Variety lists available upon request or refer to the order form Fall Products

5” Mum Pk 8 Item #954

#1 Pot Aster, Celosia, Flowering Kale & Shasta Daisy 8” Mum Item #907 Fall Planter Box Item #625

10” Mum Basket 10”, 12” & 14” Mum Container Item #902 Item #909 10”, 904 12” Item # 901 14” 10” Fall Combo Planter

10” & 14” Harvest Mum 13” Fall Blooms Barrel Item # 9092 10” Item #9062 Item 9012 14” 12” Mum Combo Container *One rack minimums to customers in our Item # 906 fall delivery areas. www.luurtsema.com 1-800-253-2052 Helping Garden Centers succeed

Since 1946 Providing Quality

Bedding Vegetables Baskets Herbs Containers Perennials Potted Annuals Succulents

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