A Grower Perspective

It’s hard to get people to agree on nearly anything, including plants. We all have our favorite plants yet what we love can be a nightmare for others. For me it’s getting to know a person, place, plant or T. V. show, which allows me to make a decision on how I feel about them. I do make snap judgments, sometimes this is necessary, but I have found slowly learning to get to know things helps me make a more informed decision. We recently received a strong reaction back about one of our plant of the weeks. Many things I liked and admired about the plant were not at all appreciated by this reader. Fair enough.

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Every August we have a booth at the Oregon Association of Nurseries’ Farwest Show in Portland, Oregon. It is the way that we touch base in person with many of our customers and hopefully each year we meet new ones as well. We spend three long days standing in our booth, greeting visitors, handing out our marketing materials and trying to get a read on the year ahead.

At these shows, we get a variety of inquiries and questions. Sometimes it is someone wanting to know where they can buy a particular variety of plant. Sometimes they just want to

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