The Plant Ranch wholesale foliage was established in 1981 as a wholesale/retail greenhouse. In 1982 it converted to

wholesale only. The Carr Street location was purchased in 1993. We have 10,000 square feet of foliage ranging from 3" starter plants to 14" specimen plants from Florida, California and Hawaii.

You must be a licensed dealer earning your living selling agricultural products to purchase from The Plant Ranch. We supply Florist Shops, Garden

Centers, Interior Designers, Interior Plantscapers, Exterior Landscapers, Schools, Colleges, Churches and Government agencies.

Our Customer Area is password protected. Please call or e-mail The Plant Ranch and provide us with your company information, including your state sales tax license number. We will then give you the passwords to enter the customer area.

April Specials

Scale Insects

10% Off

of all green plants during April

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To get to The Plant Ranch

From I-70 and Wadsworth go North to 52nd Street. Go West (Left) on 52nd to Carr. Then North (right) on Carr to 5468. We are at the top of the hill on the right; if you cross the train tracks you’ve gone just a little too far.

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Monday thru Thursday 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Friday 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m.

Is your floor or furniture feeling sticky these days? That could be a sign of an insect pest on your houseplants, one you'd hardly notice otherwise. That sticky stuff is a sugary "honeydew" secreted by so-called scale insects that typically multiply faster and faster as spring approaches.
Let's offer scale insects some sympathy for the drab lives they lead. After hatching from eggs or being born live, the babies crawl around for a few hours or days until they find a place on a plant to settle down. There they sink their mouthparts into the plant and start sucking. And that's about it for many female scale insects: Walk around a
little, find a place to eat and then stay put for the rest of your life. You'd think that the adult males, having wings, might have a bit of sparkle in their the lives. Hardly. They don't even eat. They just fly around and mate - but for only a few hours - and then die.
Look for nothing more than an occasional shiny, brown bump about an eighth of an inch across. Flick at a bump with your thumbnail to tell whether it's supposed to be there; scale insects come off easily. Use your fingernail to flick scale off or a cotton swab dipped in alcohol to rub down infested leaves or stems. Dislodging a scale insect breaks its mouthpart so it can never feed again.
By Lee Reich AP, RMN 02.23.08