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THIS BUSINESS OF OURS A Mike Hemming

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s winters go, this one has been all right. Except for items such as hollies and other screening materials like
a hard blast of Arctic air right around Christmas, arborvitaes and pines. There is also a demand from
Ait’s been a mild winter. No snow at all, really, is landscapers for seven and ten gallon hydrangeas and
always a good thing. We don’t need a snowpack in the other shrubs. David Tankard’s nursery near Exmore, Va.,
mountains like in California. excels in growing those sizes and is often sold down in
quantity or sold out. So doing more of that yourself is
All this nice weather allowed us to do just about all the
winter clean-up and repairs we wanted. Some areas a good idea profit-wise. Some areas that needed new
around the edges had gotten, well, kind of junky and ground cloth got it. However, we are awaiting delivery of
not looking nice at all, as well as all the liner potting more cloth to finish that up. Our bare root trees have been
and stepping up into threes, fives, sevens, and larger delivered; hopefully, we will start getting those potted up
containers. We are trying to grow the bigger stock of this coming week.

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