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National Garden Bureau offers free resources for garden centers

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Managers can find e-newsletters, signage and more

| May 31, 2012

The National Garden Bureau is now offering articles, fact sheets, e-newsletters, signage and more for garden centers to repurpose for their own needs.

At ngb.org, garden center managers can find everything from Power Point slides to images to signage to help promote new varieties. Here’s a sample of what garden center managers can find:

1)      Today’s Garden articles – more than 50 full length articles to be used in whole or part

2)      Year of the Fact Sheets - also to be used in whole or excerpted in smaller parts

3)      Archived “Garden Inspirations’ e-newsletters that can be repurposed for a garden center’s e-newsletter or website

4)      Images of our member’s New Varieties for 2012

5)      Year of the images going back to 1997

6)      Year of the Geranium/Heuchera/Herbstri-fold brochures

7)      Signage to promote Year of the crops

8)      PowerPoint slide shows to promote Year of the crops and New Varieties

 

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