2025 Year in Review: Growth, Innovation and Natural Pest Solutions

Sound Horticulture was very busy and active in 2025, completing 25 years of business. Our sales increased, we added new and exciting products and deepened relationships with both customers and vendors. 

People

With great sadness this October we lost our beloved office manager Karin to illness. She was the center of this organization and we have felt her loss deeply. She has stood by us for many years, through thick and thin, and taught us so many things about business and life as well. She cherished the values of love, loyalty and friendship from the Irish Claddagh. She patiently onboarded new employees, answering their millions of questions. She was always there to help problem solve orders, scheduling and more. She truly loved the work and the people and will always be a part of Sound Horticulture. 

Events

Sound Horticulture exhibited and gave presentations at several shows across the nation. The UNLA Green conference in Utah, ProGreen Expo in Colorado and the Farwest Show in Oregon. We also attended the IPPS western regional meeting, the IPPS Utah area meeting and PlantCon in Dallas. We partnered with WSNLA to provide a three part grower webinar series and Ali presented at the Oregon Pesticide Safety Education Program with rave reviews:

• This was the best/most interesting presentation I have seen in the PSEP webinars I have attended so far.
• She explained everything perfect
• Favorite presenter today...knowledgeable, but personable as well
• Awesome
• Loved this talk - it was my favorite!
• She had a great energy and clearly loved what she does and loves sharing her knowledge with us.  I loved the session
• Great presentation!
• Nice work Alison – thanks
• Just want to echo- I am loving this speaker Alison and her presentation focus!! So informative and holistic thank you!
• The speakers were all interesting, relevant, skilled. Overall, my OSU pesticide webinar experience today was better than any other pesticide credit webinar at other orgs I've attended in the past. Great work y'all, thank you so much!

Products

We've added some exciting new products to our lineup this year!

• Dramm tools for watering and spraying
• Predatory mite mixes from Bioline like Triline and PerCal
• Anystis the Crazee mite now available in more states
• Rhyzobius for scale now available in smaller sizes
• Steinernema feltiae pearls now available for small growers
• Pollen now available for supplemental mite food
• Arber Bio Insecticide and Bio Fungicide for small growers
• Amblydromalus limonicus from Applied Bionomics

These changes, along with better shipping rates outside of Washington state will set you up for success in the new year. Join us as we find organic solutions and work together to grow exceptional plants and exceptional people.

Happy Holidays from Sound Horticulture!