We’re Green

There are a number of ways we practice sustainability at Drummers.

• Offer natural and organic products for pest control as well as fertilization and have staff on hand who know how to use these products and sustainable practices.
• Offer resources on natural and organic gardening best practices.
• In our greenhouses and our property, we grow as many of our own plants as possible to save transportation and other costs and inputs.
• Promote benefits of tree planting to commercial and residential customers.
• All writable paper has second use in-store for notes.
• Work to purchase as many locally-produced goods as possible and from as many local vendors as possible.
• The store’s cement walls conserve energy and reduce sound.
• We accept Drummers perennial plastic pots as well as large plastic pots to reuse year-after-year. Please recycle your plastic pots according to your city’s recycling ordinances.
• Offer our customers the opportunity to recycle glass floral vases.
• Maintain green spaces with display gardens.
• The rock surface on our shrub lot is a permeable surface that reduces stormwater runoff and heat.
• Retrofitted the retail store lighting in 2008 to high-efficiency fluorescent lighting that also saves on cooling costs.
• Reuse and recycle wood pallets.
• Use an energy curtain in our glass greenhouse to save and block heat or heat loss depending on the season.