Yard Artists

For this category feature, I focused on an Iowa hardware store that offers a landscape “coaching and design” service. The store’s garden center manager shared with me the details of a few projects she’d worked on and how those projects helped to boost overall sales in the department. The story, which originally appeared in the August 2013 issue of Hardware Retailing, also offers advice for retailers looking to integrate a similar service and how landscape “coaching and design” could benefit their operation.

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