Home Annual Reports Overview Cooperators Accomplishments Usefulness Work Plan Publications	ANNUAL REPORT OF COOPERATIVE REGIONAL PROJECTS Supported by Allotments of the Regional Research Fund,  Hatch Act, as Amended August 11, 1955  January 1 to December 31, 2002  PROJECT S-290 (formerly S-103): Technical and Economical Efficiencies of Producing, Marketing, and Managing Environmental Plants  USEFULNESS OF FINDINGS Each of the projects have provided benefits to the public, whether they be supplier, production, wholesale, or retail businesses, political entities, or consumers of landscape and ornamental plants. Some relevant examples include the examination of late season establishment of bedding plants for fall color, the evaluation of plant sales by market outlet type and state, and the analysis of consumer preferences for particular plant characteristics. This type of research can assist plant breeders and retailers in developing new varieties of landscape plants and marketers in delivering the high quality products consumers want most.