Who owns Miracle-Gro?
Miracle-Gro is owned by Scotts Miracle-Gro (the United States, NYSE: SMG).[1]
Evidence: The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-25, SEC EDGAR, 25 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Marysville, Ohio
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1951
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Home improvement › Lawn & garden
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: SMG
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Miracle-Gro
Miracle-Gro is a water-soluble plant food developed in 1951 by a New York garden centre owner, sold as a blue crystal dissolved in water. It is the largest plant food brand in the United States and gave the merged company half its name.
What Scotts Miracle-Gro's annual report says about Miracle-Gro
Sentences about Miracle-Gro from Scotts Miracle-Gro's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In fiscal 1995, through a merger with Stern's Miracle-Gro Products, Inc., which was founded by Horace Hagedorn and Otto Stern in Long Island, New York in 1951, we acquired the Miracle-Gro brand, the industry leader in water-soluble garden plant foods.
How often Scotts Miracle-Gro names Miracle-Gro in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Miracle-Gro
- Current owner Scotts Miracle-Gro [1] verified
Where Miracle-Gro sits in Scotts Miracle-Gro
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Scotts Miracle-Gro
Scotts Miracle-Gro controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
- Scotts (1868)
Other brands in lawn & garden, and who owns them
The 29 brands in lawn & garden on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Bioceres, with 5; Scotts Miracle-Gro has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bioceres Semillas | Bioceres | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Flymo | Husqvarna Group | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Hayter | Toro | 🇺🇸 United States |
| AMES | Griffon | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dolphin | Maytronics | 🇮🇱 Israel |
| BASF Agricultural Solutions | BASF | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Roundup | Bayer | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Pennington | Central Garden & Pet | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Scotts Miracle-Gro
Scotts Miracle-Gro is a publicly listed company headquartered in Marysville, Ohio, United States, founded in 1868. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: SMG.
Scotts Miracle-Gro traces to an Ohio seed business founded in 1868 and is the largest lawn and garden company in North America. It merged with Miracle-Gro in 1995 and later built a substantial business supplying equipment and nutrients to hydroponic and cannabis growers.
Scotts Miracle-Gro: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Miracle-Gro and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Miracle-Gro is not one of them.
- 3 Day Blinds — Hunter Douglas 🇳🇱
- 7-Eleven — Seven & i 🇯🇵
- AMES — Griffon 🇺🇸
- AZEK Exteriors — James Hardie 🇮🇪
- Alamo Cement — Buzzi 🇮🇹
- American Olean — Mohawk 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Miracle-Gro?
The parent company of Miracle-Gro is Scotts Miracle-Gro, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Miracle-Gro American?
Yes. Miracle-Gro originated in the United States in 1951 and its owner, Scotts Miracle-Gro, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Miracle-Gro still owned by Scotts Miracle-Gro?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Miracle-Gro is still owned by Scotts Miracle-Gro. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-25 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 25 November 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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