Whois & Analysis for gardensalive.com

Gardens Alive!, Inc. is a privately owned multi-title catalog company founded in 1984.

It sells garden and lawn supplies, specializing in organic products under its namesake catalog.

The company has expanded by aggressively purchasing other catalog companies, including expansion into gift and games after acquiring the assets of defunct catalog company BlueSky Brands in 2008.

As of 2010 has annual sales of approximately $170 million, 60 percent of which was from garden-related business.

Operating about a dozen seed catalogs, the company was roughly four times larger than the second largest seed cataloger in the United States as of a 2011 report.

Organic horticulture is the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants by following the essential principles of organic agriculture in soil building and conservation, pest management, and heirloom variety preservation.

A pest is "a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns (as agriculture or livestock production)"; alternative meanings include organisms that cause nuisance and epidemic disease associated with high mortality (specifically: plague).

In its broadest sense, a pest is a competitor of humanity.

Ecology (from, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the scientific analysis and study of interactions among organisms and their environment.

It is an interdisciplinary field that includes biology, geography, and Earth science.

Ecology includes the study of interactions that organisms have with each other, other organisms, and with abiotic components of their environment.

Topics of interest to ecologists include the diversity, distribution, amount (biomass), and number (population) of particular organisms, as well as cooperation and competition between organisms, both within and among ecosystems.

Ecosystems are composed of dynamically interacting parts including organisms, the communities they make up, and the non-living components of their environment.

Ecosystem processes, such as primary production, pedogenesis, nutrient cycling, and various niche construction activities, regulate the flux of energy and matter through an environment.

These processes are sustained by organisms with specific life history traits, and the variety of organisms is called biodiversity.

Biodiversity, which refers to the varieties of species, genes, and ecosystems, enhances certain ecosystem services.

Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe.

"Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general.

The study of nature is a large part of science.

Although humans are part of nature, human activity is often understood as a separate category from other natural phenomena.