Sep 7, 2010
GCA Membership Meeting and Holiday Tour Quickly ApproachingSource: Garden Centers of America

There is still time to register for the GCA Membership Meeting featuring P. Allen Smith!

GCA is hosting a Membership Meeting in conjunction with the True Value Home & Garden Showplace Fall Market. This meeting will give you the opportunity to learn about new benefits of becoming a GCA member as well as learning new ideas from one of the best in the business, P. Allen Smith. Smith is an award-winning garden designer and host of public television program, P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home and the syndicated 30-minute show, P. Allen Smith Gardens.

This meeting is open to all! Members, non-members and potential members are all welcome to attend.

The meeting will take place this Saturday, Sept. 11, at 2 p.m. at the Las Vegas Hilton in the Pavilion 10/11. If you have not yet booked your room at the Hilton and wish to at this time, please contact the hotel at 800.635.7711. and identify yourself as a “True Value” attendee.

By popular demand, the host city for the 2007 Garden Centers of America Summer Tour, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn., has been chosen for this year’s holiday tour. The Twin Cities will get tour attendees in the holiday spirit from Nov. 14 to 17.

Both first-time and return visitors will experience an absolute mecca of garden centers, including:

  • Tonkadale Greenhouse
  • General Store of Minnetonka
  • Dundee Nursery
  • 101 Market Garden Center
  • Mickman Brothers Nursery
  • Gertens
  • Linder’s Garden Center
  • Tangletown Gardens
  • Bachman’s Lyndale

The holiday tour is an opportunity to discover new ideas, get merchandising tips and broaden your horizons with retailers from all over the country. It’s sure to be a magical holiday experience.

For more information, go to www.gardencentersofamerica.org.