Table 31. Value of Land, Buildings, Machinery and Equipment; Total Land Area; Area in Production; and 
Marketing Channels by Value of Sales: 2014 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Total 
$2,500,000 
or more 
$1,000,000 
to $2,499,999 
$500,000 
to $999,999 
$250,000 
to $499,999 
$100,000 
to $249,999 
NATURAL SHADE AREA IN PRODUCTION 
Cut flowers and cut lei flowers (see text) 
operations 
89 
_ 
5 
2 
3 
2 
acres 
68 
- 
17 
(D) 
3 
(D) 
Cut flowers, anthurium (see text) 
operations 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cut flowers, dendrobium orchids (see text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
" 
- 
- 
" 
" 
Cut flowers, all other (see text) 
operations 
10 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
12 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Potted flowering plants (see text) 
operations 
114 
2 
8 
7 
10 
11 
Potted flowering plants, dendrobium orchids 
acres 
76 
(D) 
12 
11 
7 
11 
(see text) 
operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
“ 
Potted flowering plants, all other (see text) 
operations 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
acres 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Potted herbaceous perennial plants 
operations 
494 
5 
20 
29 
43 
72 
acres 
418 
(D) 
33 
54 
(D) 
40 
Annual bedding/garden plants 
operations 
159 
3 
3 
21 
15 
27 
acres 
163 
51 
(D) 
45 
9 
14 
Foliage plants, pots 
operations 
58 
1 
4 
1 
4 
12 
acres 
72 
(D) 
9 
(D) 
15 
9 
Foliage plants, hanging baskets 
operations 
21 
1 
- 
1 
1 
6 
acres 
11 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
3 
Cut cultivated greens 
operations 
155 
6 
6 
8 
19 
39 
acres 
2,139 
647 
141 
147 
211 
264 
Nursery stock (see text) 
operations 
871 
21 
42 
47 
107 
158 
acres 
1,922 
87 
169 
151 
250 
333 
All other horticultural specialty crops 
operations 
132 
5 
6 
5 
9 
19 
acres 
177 
4 
23 
3 
26 
41 
AREA IN THE OPEN IN PRODUCTION 
Cut flowers and cut lei flowers (see text) 
operations 
1,349 
32 
45 
41 
61 
144 
acres 
14,349 
5,838 
1,789 
1,708 
1,064 
972 
Cut flowers, anthurium (see text) 
operations 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cut flowers, dendrobium orchids (see text) 
operations 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cut flowers, all other (see text) 
operations 
93 
- 
2 
- 
1 
8 
acres 
464 
- 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
57 
Potted flowering plants (see text) 
operations 
565 
60 
35 
65 
61 
88 
Potted flowering plants, dendrobium orchids 
acres 
2,836 
1,633 
190 
614 
103 
98 
(see text) 
operations 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
- 
- 
" 
Potted flowering plants, all other (see 
text) 
operations 
9 
- 
- 
1 
- 
2 
acres 
11 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
Potted herbaceous perennial plants 
operations 
2,448 
174 
151 
159 
245 
437 
acres 
6,739 
2,835 
1,238 
462 
504 
695 
Annual bedding/garden plants 
operations 
1,279 
85 
76 
103 
129 
238 
acres 
2,962 
1,352 
261 
500 
191 
175 
Foliage plants, pots 
operations 
302 
22 
41 
38 
32 
48 
acres 
1,514 
588 
350 
204 
101 
81 
Foliage plants, hanging baskets 
operations 
35 
3 
2 
3 
3 
9 
acres 
31 
9 
(D) 
2 
1 
12 
Cut cultivated greens 
operations 
370 
9 
12 
18 
34 
58 
acres 
6,484 
879 
362 
922 
3,119 
298 
Nursery stock (see text) 
operations 
6,870 
390 
525 
569 
777 
1,301 
acres 
316,241 
104,470 
57,677 
42,518 
31,463 
32,918 
All other horticultural specialty crops 
operations 
6,422 
222 
338 
412 
496 
919 
acres 
659,682 
174,778 
119,784 
91,296 
59,813 
50,168 
MARKETING CHANNELS 
Consumers (direct sales) 
operations 
15,406 
297 
521 
744 
1,194 
2,485 
Retail florists 
operations 
2,907 
145 
191 
266 
277 
521 
Retail garden centers/nurseries 
operations 
7,605 
580 
727 
816 
919 
1,404 
Supermarkets/groceries 
operations 
3,025 
294 
254 
264 
256 
473 
Other mass marketers 
operations 
2,668 
405 
273 
271 
238 
387 
Interiorscapers 
operations 
1,523 
92 
147 
162 
129 
247 
Landscape contractors 
operations 
8,096 
479 
747 
888 
1,066 
1,574 
Wholesale florists 
operations 
2,631 
176 
216 
221 
235 
437 
Landscape redistribution yards 
operations 
3,029 
270 
366 
349 
369 
526 
Non-profit groups 
operations 
3,255 
157 
206 
261 
318 
597 
Other marketing channels (see text) 
operations 
4,518 
264 
340 
361 
376 
658 
-continued 
36 2014 CHS - United States Data 
2012 Census of Agriculture 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
