We are currently in
the process of compiling our 2020-2021 specimen sales list. I go up
and down each row and in and out of all greenhouses, examining every
plant and deciding what goes on the menu and at what price. It's my
40th year of doing so, and the goal is to charge a
reasonable price, one that will keep the customers coming back year
after year, but also where we have made a modest profit in the end.
No one else here at
Buchholz Nursery wants my job, but I would love to find someone who
does. The task takes hundreds of hours because it is accompanied by a
detailed work list for the crew: pot up, prune, stake etc., but sadly
a number of instances where it's best to throw the plant away. The
practice of horticulture is an unusual dance with nature, and most of
the time I feel as if I'm being consumed with the relationship.
Except that I can't think of anything better to do.
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