ScottsMiracle-Gro Completes Acquisition of Rod McLellan Company

6 October 2005

The Scotts Miracle-Gro
Company (NYSE: SMG), the world's leading marketer of branded products for
consumer lawn and garden care, has completed the previously announced
acquisition of the Rod McLellan Company, a provider of soil and landscape
products in the western U.S.
"We're pleased to add the Rod McLellan Company's Supersoil(R), Whitney
Farms(TM) and Black Magic(R) brands to The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company family,"
said Jim Hagedorn, chairman and chief executive officer of ScottsMiracle-Gro.
"The business adds important regional brands to our growing media portfolio
and allows us to improve our supply chain infrastructure to better serve our
retail customers."
The purchase price of Rod McLellan Company is approximately $20 million.
The transaction is expected to be accretive to earnings in fiscal 2006.

About ScottsMiracle-Gro
With more than $2 billion in worldwide sales and more than 6,000
associates, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, through its wholly-owned
subsidiary, The Scotts Company LLC, is the world's largest marketer of branded
consumer products for lawn and garden care, with products for professional
horticulture as well. The Company's brands are the most recognized in the
industry. In the U.S., the Company's Scotts(R), Miracle-Gro(R) and Ortho(R)
brands are market-leading in their categories, as is the consumer Roundup(R)
brand, which is marketed in North America and most of Europe exclusively by
Scotts and owned by Monsanto. The Company also owns Smith & Hawken, a leading
brand of garden-inspired products that includes pottery, watering equipment,
gardening tools, outdoor furniture and live goods. In Europe, Scotts' brands
include Weedol(R), Pathclear(R), Evergreen(R), Levington(R), Miracle-Gro(R),
KB(R), Fertiligene(R) and Substral(R). For additional information, visit us at
http://www.scotts.com.

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