Check out Global Garden Friends’ founder Mike Donaldson on “Living in Style” sharing the Ultimate Plant Cage and Ultimate Plant Clip with a nationwide TV...

If you haven’t already read two of the greatest business books available titled, Good to Great or Built to Last, you must go and grab yourself a copy. They are both filled with amazing strategies and lessons to help any business owner develop a winning company. I want to briefly touch on one of these strategies that we have adopted here at GGF. It is called “clock building.” The idea of clock building is very similar to the...

The Best Teacher Your Plants Ever Had. Plant cages stink. They’re unwieldy, made of cheap metal, and they always seem to block the sun and stunt the growth of your plants. Bamboo stinks. But gardening WITHOUT cages and bamboo also stinks in its own special way. Your plants grow chaotically, they grow out instead of up, and you have no control over them. Tired of dealing with all the mess sometimes? So were we. That’s why we created...

December and January were very busy months at the Global Garden Friends headquarters. We were inundated with orders both domestic and international. We managed to pull it off even though our office looked much like chaos! We were doing all our own fulfillment to ensure that we had 100% quality control on all out going orders. This is all a learning process so we can better understand our shipping methods so when we change over to 3rd party...

From time to time we field complaints from our customers regarding the dreaded 4-pole Ultimate Plant Cages. They’re unhappy when they receive 4 pole units when they think they’re buy 6 pole units. There are many retailers out there selling the plant cages “online” without disclosing that they only come with 4 poles and not 6. You can see a previous post about this issue here and why they’re doing this.   You...

I’m sure we’ve all had that moment when we look at our garden and sigh. “Wow, it looks like chaos, I wish I took care of this weeks ago.” It’s a common thought nowadays, with the busy lifestyles many of us lead, it is often difficult to find the time to do what we love: gardening. A garden is easy to neglect because it’s something we think can grow itself. Which is true, in a sense, but I think it’s always...