by Grower Direct Farms | May 15, 2026 | Firefly Petunia, Garden, Grower Direct Farms
New Firefly Petunia Grower Direct Farms is growing the first ever glow-in-the-dark flower for your own garden! The Firefly Petunia is a genetically engineered petunia developed by synthetic biology startup, Light Bio. Light Bio used genes from bioluminescent tropical...
by Grower Direct Farms | Apr 9, 2026 | Grower Direct Farms, New England Gardening, Ornamental Trees and Shrubs , Southern New England Plants
GDF is now supplying Southern New England with a variety of ornamental species of shrubs and trees! Our trees come in a range of sizes, from low-growing Spruce to towering Birch and Yoshino Cherry. We are pleased to also offer popular branded cultivars of shrubs, like...
by Grower Direct Farms | Mar 16, 2026 | Connecticut Flower and Garden Show, Spring Flowers
Weeks before the official first day of Spring 2025, Grower Direct Farms has already been gearing up for warmer weather. As the earliest Pansies began to bloom in the greenhouses on February 19-22, GDF employees, Sofia Murzin and Connor Shults, ventured out to...
by Grower Direct Farms | Feb 11, 2025 | AI in Agriculture, Corvus Drones, Drone Crop Inspection, Greenhouse Automation, Greenhouse Inventory Management, Grower Direct Farms, New England Gardening, Plants, Protecting Plants
At Grower Direct Farms, we are always striving to implement new ideas and technologies in our greenhouses, keeping up with the fast-paced modernization of the industry. In 2024 we began working with Corvus Drones in the Netherlands to implement the world’s first...
by Grower Direct Farms | Dec 1, 2024 | Christmas Decoration, Christmas Plants, Grower Direct Farms, Holiday Flowers, Plants, Poinsettias, Temperature-Controlled Delivery
At Grower Direct Farms, we start preparing for Christmas long before the holiday season arrives. Our journey begins in July, when our team carefully plants more than half a million poinsettias from small cuttings. Watching them grow and transform over the months, we...
