Sunny days

For nearly 30 years, brothers Craig and Scott Roth and their staff at Sunshine Growers have combined sweat equity, trial and error and good business practices to outlast competition in a crowded industry.

The result: a wholesale plant nursery that deftly survived the recession and had $5.5 million in sales last year. “Sales are starting to come back after seven years,” Craig Roth says. “I think we've turned the corner.”

Sunshine has an enviable customer list filled with familiar household names such as Publix, Walmart and Costco. Those chains sell Sunshine's unique potted flowers, vegetables and plants.