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Spruce It Up Garden Centre - Calgary, Alberta

Standing Strong in Our Commitment to Canadian Growers and Garden Centres

It’s no secret - Canadian pride runs deep, and rightly so. Perhaps more than ever before, your customers are seeking reassurance that their hard-earned dollars are going towards local, often family-owned, Canadian businesses in their communities. To help you share your story with them, we’ve amassed a bevy of resources about how Proven Winners are grown in Canada. We’ll talk about that in more detail below but first, as has always been the case with our brand, let’s consider the relationships we’ve cultivated together through the years.

Meet Your Fellow Canadian Growers

Proven Winners' roots run deep in Canada. For more than 30 years, we've developed and nurtured our network of more than 1,500 growers, garden centres, trial gardens and Certified Landscape Professionals across Canada. It has always been our practice to partner with the best Canadian businesses to produce our plants to our exacting brand standards. It is only by working together that we have become The Brand Gardeners Trust^™.

Meet the two exemplary Canadian family-owned licensee propagators behind Proven Winners annuals. Ed Sobkowich of Ontario and Glenn Andersen of British Columbia have been an integral part of the Proven Winners family and our trusted brand partners nearly since the inception of our brand more than 30 years ago. Together, their Canadian businesses have cultivated millions of young plants with passion, precision and purpose to supply to finished plant growers and garden centres.

At every step of the production and retail journey, Proven Winners is working to support Canadian businesses. Young plant producers from around the world ship starter material, plugs and bare root plants to Canadian-owned growers and grower-retailers across Canada. Using their knowledge of how best to handle plants in Canadian climates, they produce, ship and sell retail-ready Proven Winners plants. Every step of the journey requires the highly specialized expertise of people like you – proud Canadians.

Support for Canadian Retailers

For over two decades, we’ve been committed to supporting Canadian garden centres. In this extraordinary time in our history, when it is vitally important to communicate the “Grown in Canada” message to Canadian consumers, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to share your story. That’s why we’ve worked alongside our brand partners to create the following suite of marketing assets for retailers:

• Certified Garden Centre Training Program - Take advantage of our free bilingual staff training program!
• Find a Retailer Listing - Helping consumers find Canadian garden centres
• Grown in Canada benchcards - English and French versions available
• Shrub POP signage - English and French versions available
• Grown in Canada icons - Use these bilingual design files on your own POP and other communications
• Certified Garden Centre logo - Announce your completion of the Certified Garden Centre Training Program

When you partner with Proven Winners, you gain the benefits of the most comprehensive marketing efforts in the industry. We've summarized our efforts in our full marketing report for Canada, including most popular plants sold in Canada, consumer insights and trends, digital marketing efforts, and much more. Prefer to see how we are marketing in your specific province? Download your individual province report on this page.    

Hear from two outstanding Canadian retail partners:

How We Are Sharing Our Story with Canadian Consumers

In addition to the incredible efforts being made by Canadian growers and retailers to tell their stories of how Proven Winners are grown and sold across Canada, our own marketing team is hard at work every day connecting with Canadian consumers.

114,000+ Canadian followers

27,000+ Canadian followers

6,700+ Canadian subscribers

1 Million+ Canadian website visitors

25,000 copies distributed in Canada

49,000+ Canadian email subscribers

We Are Here to Help!

Thank you for trusting Proven Winners to provide your business with plants and products to help Canadian gardens flourish. We look forward to growing our relationship for many more years to come. If we can be of any assistance, please feel free to reach out to our network.

Grower Contacts

• Western Canada Proven Winners Propagator: Nordic Nurseries - nordicplants.com, 604-607-7074
• Eastern Canada Proven Winners Propagator: Ed Sobkowich Greenhouses - sobkowich.com, 905-945-8870
• Find a Broker

Retailer Contacts

• Western Canada Retail Solutions Manager: Caitlin Hupp – Email Caitlin, 785-766-5726
• Eastern Canada Retail Solutions Manager: Heather Poire – Email Heather, 603-286-0121
• Director of Retail Accounts: Jessica DeGraaf – Email Jessica, 616-706-7970
• Find a Wholesaler