The Greenery connects growers and customers through a broad range of fresh fruit and vegetables. As a cooperative, we help growers build stronger businesses and customers succeed.
Everything starts with our growers: their expertise, entrepreneurship and ambition to move forward. We bring their strengths together, providing access to markets, knowledge and investment support. Through personal commitment and transparency on costs and returns, we create room for entrepreneurship and greater value from every harvest.
For our customers, we combine growing expertise with an understanding of consumer needs. We work together on range, quality and availability, managing the journey from grower to shelf to help grow the fruit and vegetable category.
Together with our growers, colleagues and partners, we develop new varieties, improve logistics and advance sustainability. Building a strong supply chain and growth that reaches beyond the next season.
The Greenery. Where growers grow.
Gardens Alive!®, Inc. provides home gardening solutions and more direct to the consumer through a family of catalog and online brands. In fact, we are proud to be one of the largest distributors of gardening products serving the United States and Canada. Gardens Alive! grows and ships millions of plants, seeds, trees & bulbs on an annual basis, our brands offering exclusive and specialty plant varieties grown both directly as well as sourced through our corporate partners in Holland and elsewhere. We also offer a full line of environmentally responsible fertilizer, weed control and pest relief products under the Gardens Alive! brand name.
Our Family of Brands include:
Brecks® www.brecks.com
Spring Hill Nursery ® www.springhillnursery.com
Gardens Alive! ® www.gardensalive.com
Gurney's® Seed & Nursery Co. www.gurneys.com
K.Van Bourgondien & Sons www.dutchbulbs.com
Michigan Bulb® Co. www.michiganbulb.com
Weeks Roses www.weeksroses.com
Iseli Nursery www.iselinursery.com
Gardens Alive also owns and operates a number of non-horticultural brands, featuring puzzles, games, home decor, linens and apparel. These product lines ship across the United States, Canada, and Europe:
Bits & Pieces www.bitsandpieces.com
Spilsbury www.spilsbury.com
Help Us Grow
With 10 corporate locations across the U.S. and internationally, we employ 1000+ full-time and seasonal team members and are currently looking for more.
Terra Firma drives value creation. Founded by Private Equity pioneer Guy Hands in 1994, Terra Firma has a 30+ year track record of investing in transformational private equity, operational real estate and infrastructure plus. Since establishment, Terra Firma has invested €18 billion in 43 businesses with an aggregate enterprise value of over €52 billion.
Terra Firma means ‘solid ground’. It reflects our consistent and distinctive approach to investment. We buy asset-rich businesses in essential industries that can be transformed through fundamental change in the long term. As such, we invest time, money and expertise into transforming the strategy, operations and finances of the businesses we acquire, recognising that long term success is not achieved purely by focusing on short-term objectives but through dedicated partnership, integrity and tenacity.