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GARDEN COMM A Claire Jones
Best Place to Buy Plants
Everywhere that I look in the plants and many more choices to independents will also listen to you
horticultural news, people are pick from than a typical retail chain. if you ask them to grow a particular
thinking local. Local cut flowers, plant that you really covet, but do
Spotlight on Locals
local veggies from the CSA or local not have the time or energy to start
products from the creamery down There are many unsung nursery yourself. For instance, I wanted to
the street. I live in a part of northern heroes that have been in the grow different colors of notoriously
Baltimore County rich with many Maryland area for years flying below hard-to-start Lisianthus, for cut
choices for local products and enjoy the average gardener’s radar. Not flowers. I asked one of my favorite
the choices of nurseries available having a big advertising budget or growers, JoEllen Troy at Blooming Hill
to me. Small independently run social media presence, the smaller in Parkton, if she could help me out.
nurseries carry much better-quality nurseries have a history of producing I am happy to say that I picked up
good quality plant stock. The
Susan Iglehart’s
Flowers in
Reisterstown
grows “Intriguing
Annuals & Usual
and Unusual Plants
for Passionate
Gardeners!”
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