BGI Affiliations & Memberships
FNGLA: Florida Nursery, Growers and Landscape Association
Florida Nursery, Growers and Landscape Association (FNGLA) is a member-driven association that recognizes the need for individual industry members to unify. FNGLA works to better the industry, raising the bar on professionalism by spearheading marketing programs, providing promotional and educational venues for members, taking a leadership role in protecting and promoting our members’ business interests, communicating the latest industry issues and providing professional accreditation to interested individuals.
BGI currently has three FNGLA Certified Horticultural Professionals:
- Tom Scannell, Founder
- Kellie Pilicer, Director of Sales & Marketing
- Scott Smith, Pine Island Nursery Manager
What is a FNGLA Certified Horticultural Professional?
The FNGLA Certified Horticulture Professional (FCHP) program is the industry's only standard for measuring horticulture knowledge on everything from plant and pest identification to landscape management.
FCHP promotes professionalism among horticulture professionals, including nursery, greenhouse, landscape and retail garden center employees. For more information, you can visit the FNGLA website.
SNA: Southern Nursery Association
SNA is a professional trade association encompassing the total nursery/landscape industry from nursery production through retailing and landscape installation in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. With this broad-based membership, including allied industry firms and organizations, the Southern Nursery Association can act with combined strength on those legislative or regulatory issues affecting any one segment of the industry. The SNA today consists of over 1,600 member firms. For more information, you can visit the SNA website.
TNLA: Texas Nursery and Landscape Association
TNLA is a trade association representing all segments of the Green Industry in Texas. Members are growers, landscape contractors, retail nursery, and allied green industry businesses. For more information, you can visit the TNLA website.
ASLA: American Society of Landscape Architects
Founded in 1899, the American Society of Landscape Architects is the national professional association representing landscape architects. Beginning with 11 original members, ASLA has grown to more than 17,000 members and 48 chapters, representing all 50 states, US territories, and 42 countries around the world. ASLA promotes the landscape architecture profession and advances the practice through advocacy, education, communication, and fellowship. For more information, you can visit the ASLA website.
Mail Order Gardening Association
The Mailorder Gardening Association is a member organization of mailorder gardening and garden magazine companies. The ultimate goal of the MGA is to provide the finest gardening products, information, and service through the catalogs and magazines of its members. For more information, you can visit the Mailorder Gardening Association website.
OFA: Association of Floriculture Professionals
OFA is the leading floriculture educational association in the United States.
It is a non-profit, all-industry, educational organization. Industry segments served include: greenhouses, nurseries, retail and wholesale florists, garden centers, and interior plantscape. OFA is especially known for its outstanding publications and its OFA Short Course, U.S. floriculture's premier educational and trade show event.
OFA's mission is to support and promote floriculture professionals through lifelong learning, career enhancement, and public awareness.
For more information, you can visit the OFA Website.
