Table 34. Value of Land, Buildings, Machinery, and Equipment; Total Land Area; Area in Production; and 
Marketing Channels by Kind of Business: 2014 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Total 
Annual 
bedding/ 
garden 
plants 
Potted 
herbaceous 
perennial 
plants 
Potted 
flowering 
plants 
for indoor or 
patio use 
Foliage 
plants 
for indoor or 
patio use 
Cut 
flowers 
Cut 
cultivated 
greens 
Nursery 
stock 
(see text) 
Propagative 
horticultural 
materials, 
bareroot, 
and 
unfinished 
plants 
SHADE STRUCTURE AREA IN PRODUCTION 
- Con. 
Foliage plants, hanging baskets 
.operations 
100 
35 
5 
4 
38 
- 
- 
2 
- 
square feet (1,000) 
7,446 
170 
5 
194 
5,423 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
Cut cultivated greens 
.operations 
190 
- 
- 
- 
1 
19 
150 
6 
- 
square feet (1,000) 
167,687 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
1,313 
165,585 
689 
- 
Nursery stock (see text) 
.operations 
1,583 
105 
58 
8 
28 
1 
3 
1,229 
46 
square feet (1,000) 
All other horticultural specialty 
78,095 
1,430 
2,669 
442 
2,398 
(D) 
(D) 
68,467 
715 
crops 
.operations 
336 
33 
8 
8 
2 
- 
2 
26 
33 
square feet (1,000) 
NATURAL SHADE AREA IN PRODUCTION 
4,492 
214 
(D) 
87 
(D) 
(D) 
251 
1,040 
Cut flowers and cut lei flowers (see 
text) 
.operations 
89 
9 
4 
- 
- 
67 
- 
5 
- 
acres 
68 
5 
(Z) 
- 
- 
61 
- 
1 
- 
Cut flowers, anthurium (see text) 
.operations 
3 
- 
- 
- 
3 
- 
- 
- 
Cut flowers, dendrobium orchids (see 
acres 
(D) 
“ 
“ 
“ 
~ 
(□) 
" 
“ 
~ 
text) 
. operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
" 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cut flowers, all other (see text) 
.operations 
10 
- 
- 
- 
- 
6 
2 
2 
- 
acres 
12 
- 
- 
- 
- 
9 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
Potted flowering plants (see text) 
.operations 
114 
10 
1 
22 
3 
5 
34 
1 
acres 
76 
2 
(D) 
10 
1 
1 
14 
(D) 
Potted flowering plants, dendrobium orchids 
(see text) 
.operations 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Potted flowering plants, all other 
acres 
(see text) 
.operations 
2 
1 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Potted herbaceous perennial 
acres 
(D) 
(D) 
” 
(D) 
“ 
” 
“ 
“ 
plants 
. operations 
494 
80 
210 
3 
2 
4 
- 
118 
3 
acres 
418 
23 
252 
(Z) 
(D) 
(Z) 
- 
92 
(Z) 
Annual bedding/garden plants 
.operations 
159 
88 
3 
3 
2 
2 
- 
28 
acres 
163 
83 
(Z) 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
48 
- 
Foliage plants, pots 
.operations 
58 
11 
4 
3 
18 
- 
2 
15 
- 
acres 
72 
4 
3 
(D) 
45 
- 
(D) 
7 
Foliage plants, hanging baskets 
.operations 
21 
8 
2 
- 
4 
- 
- 
2 
1 
acres 
11 
6 
(D) 
- 
(Z) 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
Cut cultivated greens 
.operations 
155 
4 
- 
- 
- 
8 
138 
1 
- 
acres 
2,139 
1 
- 
- 
- 
19 
2,110 
(D) 
- 
Nursery stock (see text) 
.operations 
871 
77 
32 
2 
3 
2 
3 
679 
18 
All other horticultural specialty 
acres 
1,922 
71 
23 
(D) 
1 
(D) 
11 
1,653 
75 
crops 
.operations 
132 
11 
3 
2 
1 
- 
1 
17 
12 
AREA IN THE OPEN IN PRODUCTION 
acres 
177 
9 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
18 
14 
Cut flowers and cut lei flowers 
(see text) 
.operations 
1,349 
182 
27 
23 
4 
721 
18 
30 
3 
acres 
14,349 
242 
35 
49 
5 
13,047 
132 
53 
8 
Cut flowers, anthurium (see text) 
.operations 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
- 
- 
- 
Cut flowers, dendrobium orchids (see 
acres 
3 
“ 
“ 
~ 
“ 
3 
” 
— 
text) 
.operations 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
- 
- 
- 
Cut flowers, all other (see text) 
.operations 
93 
- 
- 
1 
- 
84 
4 
- 
- 
acres 
464 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
444 
12 
- 
- 
Potted flowering plants (see text) 
.operations 
565 
185 
16 
152 
19 
11 
2 
70 
1 
acres 
2,836 
271 
(D) 
1,047 
217 
(D) 
(D) 
293 
(D) 
Potted flowering plants, dendrobium orchids 
(see text) 
.operations 
1 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Potted flowering plants, all other (see 
acres 
(D) 
“ 
(D) 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
text) 
.operations 
9 
2 
- 
6 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
Potted herbaceous perennial 
acres 
11 
(D) 
“ 
9 
“ 
“ 
“ 
(D) 
“ 
plants 
.operations 
2,448 
993 
526 
52 
13 
23 
4 
478 
18 
acres 
6,739 
1,545 
2,134 
93 
67 
57 
3 
2,164 
33 
Annual bedding/garden plants 
.operations 
1,279 
901 
49 
45 
8 
9 
- 
66 
6 
acres 
2,962 
1,939 
138 
112 
18 
9 
- 
393 
19 
Foliage plants, pots 
.operations 
302 
45 
4 
34 
140 
2 
2 
29 
2 
acres 
1,514 
49 
2 
185 
1,141 
(D) 
(D) 
82 
(D) 
Foliage plants, hanging baskets 
.operations 
35 
17 
- 
6 
7 
- 
- 
3 
- 
acres 
31 
9 
- 
8 
12 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
Cut cultivated greens 
.operations 
370 
8 
6 
- 
1 
124 
117 
34 
3 
acres 
6,484 
6 
16 
- 
(D) 
1,348 
1,834 
2,720 
(D) 
Nursery stock (see text) 
.operations 
6,870 
402 
203 
43 
44 
10 
12 
5,313 
194 
All other horticultural specialty 
acres 
316,241 
2,428 
2,598 
133 
373 
35 
238 
285,527 
9,017 
crops 
.operations 
6,422 
218 
62 
30 
6 
66 
31 
447 
113 
acres 
659,682 
10,433 
292 
206 
17 
1,933 
374 
21,605 
41,741 
MARKETING CHANNELS 
Consumers (direct sales) 
.operations 
15,406 
4,389 
702 
524 
135 
475 
52 
3,240 
207 
Retail florists 
.operations 
2,907 
706 
73 
243 
91 
381 
64 
497 
21 
Retail garden centers/nurseries 
.operations 
7,605 
1,870 
370 
313 
250 
61 
24 
2,668 
156 
Supermarkets/groceries 
.operations 
3,025 
625 
51 
138 
77 
201 
55 
456 
26 
Other mass marketers 
.operations 
2,668 
545 
67 
102 
97 
56 
14 
654 
49 
-continued 
44 2014 CHS - United States Data 2012 Census of Agriculture 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
