YOUR ARE INVITED TO JOST GREENHOUSES OPEN HOUSE!

Professionals Only-You Are Invited To Wholesale Grower
Jost Greenhouses Fall Open House!

Please make time to meet with one of the best wholesale growers in the area. A family owned business that successfully provides quality plants and service to their customers in the central Midwest area including Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma, Jost Greenhouses have done reputable business since 1984. Their offices are located in Des Peres, Missouri, which is about 20 minutes outside of downtown St. Louis. At this location they have 24,000 square foot in greenhouse production with additional outdoor growing areas on 2 acres of land and they have an additional growing facility in Farmington, Missouri. Just 1-1/2 hours south of St. Louis, it has 87 acres of land with greenhouses, quonsets, perennial, woody ornamental and tree production areas!

WHEN: Wednesday, October 3, 2007
WHERE: The 87 Acre Growing Facility in Farmington, MO
TIME: 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Open Tour
9:00 – 9:30 Overview of Facility and recent Expansion/Improvements
9:30 – 10:00 Green Roof Plants and overview of projects
10:00 – 10:30 Plants that Fit into the Smaller Urban Landscape
10:30 – 11:00 Azaleas, Holly & Boxwood: Locally grown, winter hardy varieties including
Coffin, Glenn Dale, and Northern Lights Azaleas and American Holly
11:00 – 12:00 Guided Walking Tours of Greenhouses, Growing Areas and Tree Fields
Plus… Field Demonstration with 12” RootmakerTM Field Bags and Containers

Don’t miss their “New and/or Noteworthy” display area of plants and their “Bargain Barn” of odds and ends plants and discontinued items at huge discounted prices.


Bar-B-Que Lunch will be Served at Noon

Please R.S.V.P by September 19th by phone (314) 821-2834 or
email: sales@jostgreenhouses.com
If you are interested in carpooling to Farmington please let them know.

Driving Directions to Jost Greenhouses • Farmington, MO
From St. Louis, take Hwy. 270 to Hwy. 55 South. Go past Festus, take exit 174B. Stay to the right continuing on Hwy. 67 South. Go past Bonne Terre and take Hwy. 32 East. This is a left hand exit off of Hwy. 67. Go through Farmington. At the intersection of Hwy. 32 and Hwy. OO, continue straight at the stoplight onto Hwy. OO. Go 4 miles south, and Jost Greenhouses will be on the left at the top of the hill.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Bruce Butterfield
National Gardening Association
(802) 863-5251, ext. 113
bruceb@garden.org
Homeowners spend a record $45 billion on lawn and landscape services
(August 6, So. Burlington, VT) A new market research study by the National Gardening
Association, Residential Lawn and Landscape Services and the Value of Landscaping, found that
homeowners spent a record $44.7 billion to hire professional lawn and landscape services in
2006. These services include lawn care and landscape maintenance, landscape installation and
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percent of all households nationwide, or an estimated 34.5 million households, currently hire at
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of households that hire professional lawn and landscape services increase from 22 percent of
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households, in 2006,” says Bruce Butterfield, research director at the National Gardening
Association (NGA). The amount of money spent on lawn and landscape services has increased
from $24.5 billion in 2001 to $44.7 billion in 2006.
The Residential Lawn and Landscape Services and the Value of Landscaping survey was
conducted in June 2007, for NGA by Harris Interactive Inc., with a representative sample of
2,663 households nationwide.
Types of residential lawn and landscape services hired:
Lawn care and landscape maintenance services were hired by 27.8 million households
Landscape installation and construction services were hired by 6.9 million households
Tree care services were hired by 11.5 million households
Landscape design services were hired by 2.3 million households
NGA President Mike Metallo says, "The increased use of lawn and landscape services over the
past five years reflects the fact that homeowners appreciate the many benefits of a well-designed
and maintained home lawn and landscape but may not have the time or inclination to do this
work for themselves.”
In addition to tracking trends in the market for residential lawn and landscape services, the study
also researched how customers find lawn and landscape services to hire, what the most important
factors are in hiring a lawn and landscape service, customer satisfaction with services hired, the
benefits of a well-designed and maintained home landscape, and how much a well-designed and
maintained landscape adds to home value.
Continued
NGA Lawn and Landscape Survey, page 2
For more information about the Residential Lawn and Landscape Services and the Value of
Landscaping survey or to purchase a copy, please visit www.gardenresearch.com.
Founded in 1973, the National Gardening Association is a national nonprofit leader in plantbased
education, respected for its award-winning Web sites and newsletters, grants and curricula
for youth gardens, and research for the lawn and garden industry. NGA's mission is to advance
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