Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2011
We at Gardenware would like to extend to you, our customers and prospective customers, our best wishes for the holiday season and a healthy, prosperous 2012. We have our fingers and toes crossed hoping our economy has begun to turn the corner in a positive direction. At a time when demands on finances are at their greatest, we thought you …
Season’s Greetings From Gardenware! (With an intro to something you might like to “give” yourself) We at Gardenware would like to extend to you, our customers and prospective customers, our best wishes for the holiday season and a healthy, prosperous 2012. We have our fingers and toes crossed hoping our economy has begun to turn the corner in a positive …
For many years we have used Serif Software’s Page Plus publishing program to make all of our price lists, handouts and other promotional materials. We had used Microsoft Publisher for some time and I came across Page Plus and gave it a try. It did everything that Microsoft Publisher did and more. It was easier to use and it cost …
Nursery Management Magazine’s newsletter for Sept 3 carries an article stating that in June 14 million Americans scanned QR codes. I don’t know how the statistics are compiled but the claim is that over 60% are likely to be male in the age group of 18-34 years of age and over 36% with an income of $100,000 or more. Click …
To all Version 10 users: I owe you an apology for not pointing out and emphasizing a new feature that helps make adding new price lines easier, quicker and even more accurate. When entering new price lines you are presented with this screen… You could fill in the blanks to create a new price line but … note the word …
We hope that everyone who inquires about Gardenware or purchases Gardenware is aware that photographs of the plants are not included with the program. There are a lot of descriptions (close to 7500 of them) included in the program. Since the mid `90s, the Gardenware program has allowed the user to attach pictures to items in the libraries for printing …
In the last few weeks we have received calls from Gardenware users who suddenly found that they could not get access to their pictures for printing them on Gardenware signs. In each case the operating system was either Vista or Windows 7. Also, in each case the user had stored their plant pictures in the Pictures folder that Microsoft so conveniently …
As some of you know, Mary Lee and I owned and operated a garden center at the North Oregon Coast for nearly 30 years. One of our “perennial” issues was the pricing of groups of items such as succulents, ground covers, annuals, basket stuffers, perennials and others. We couldn’t, or at least didn’t want to price each plant. We tried …
A number of our customers are not retail garden centers nor growers who sell to them (though a great many are). Hardscape suppliers are a typical example, landscapers who want to label stock with a simple BIG NAME on a label to help assure that the right plants get on the right truck and into the right hole at the …