National Garden Bureau (NGB) and All-America Selections (AAS) have merged the two nonprofit organizations into one, with NGB the parent organization and AAS the plant trialing program under NGB.

National Garden Bureau (NGB) and All-America Selections (AAS) have merged the two nonprofit organizations into one, with NGB the parent organization and AAS the plant trialing program under NGB. The sister organisations have already worked closely to vet and promote great growing material, support the green industry and connect with the gardening public. All committees that were part of the two organisations are now programs run by vice president board members. The following organizational chart explains this in graphic form.

Externally, the general public will not see much of a change after the merger as the two separate websites (aaswinners.com and ngb.org) will remain, with NGB doing even more promotion of the AAS Winners. The organizations said that there are three key benefits of the merger:

• Operational efficiencies and overhead cost savings.

• Minimize duplicate efforts in similar activities and more easily identify synergies.

• Create more opportunities for leadership by professionals in the industry.

Source:ASC