News

2020

Larger Photos When You Need Them

9/15/2020

When a nursery has uploaded a plant photo, you can now magnify it from the listing — useful when you need to see form, caliper, or a canopy, not just a thumbnail.

A Responsive PlantANT, in More Languages

8/15/2020

The site now works on phones and tablets without sending you to a separate mobile site, and we added multilingual support. Sponsored listings let a nursery appear more prominently when a buyer searches a plant they grow.

Summer Shows

8/1/2020

Farwest, The Landscape Show in Orlando, and TNLA's Nursery/Landscape EXPO were cancelled this summer. We missed seeing you on the floor and kept PlantANT running as the place buyers and growers still found each other.

NTNGA Trade Show

2/12/2020 -

Arlington, Texas

We were in Arlington February 12 for the Northeast Texas Nursery Growers Association show, just before the rest of the year's shows shut down.

Gulf States Horticultural Expo

1/23/2020 -

Mobile, Alabama

We were in Mobile for GSHE as the Gulf Coast winter show opened the year. Landscape contractors and growers from Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana stopped by the booth.

Tropical Plant International Expo (TPIE)

1/22/2020 -

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

TPIE ran January 22–24 in Fort Lauderdale — the last in-person TPIE before the pandemic. Interiorscapers and tropical buyers searched foliage and palms at the booth.

PlantAPP 5.1

1/20/2020

PlantAPP 5.1 shipped for growers who update inventory and photos from a phone. Same PlantANT listings, taken in the yard instead of at a desk.

Green & Growin’

1/16/2020 -

Greensboro, North Carolina

Green & Growin’ was January 13–17 in Greensboro. We exhibited in the Marketplace with Carolina growers and landscape firms.

MANTS

1/8/2020 -

Baltimore, Maryland

MANTS opened 2020 on January 8–10 at the Baltimore Convention Center. We were there with Mid-Atlantic growers and buyers for what became the last full in-person MANTS until 2022.