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Launched in 2018, their business is called

Garden sPOTS. Customers go online to www.
garden-spots.com, where they choose a pot
size and color, a plant type (sun, shade, herb)

and favorite plant combination from a colorful,

already-matched selection. As of July 1, of this
year, all three collections were nearly sold out.
Flower boxes are also offered but had almost

sold out. In addition to ready-made planters,

Garden sPOTS will plant their arrangements in
a customer’s pot, or design custom planters to
meet a customer’s personal preferences.

Launched in 2018, their business is called Garden sPOTS.
Customers go online to www.garden-spots.com, where
they choose a pot size and color, a plant type (sun, shade,
herb) and favorite plant combination from a colorful,
already-matched selection. As of July 1, of this year, all
three collections were nearly sold out. Flower boxes
are also offered but had almost sold out. In addition
to ready-made planters, Garden sPOTS will plant their
arrangements in a customer’s pot, or design custom
planters to meet a customer’s personal preferences.

“We had both had desk jobs, but we’d just had it!” Scanlon
said. “I wanted a life beyond the computer,” she insisted. The women started in Scanlon’s
She worked for a regular paycheck until her oldest child
married, then was able to go do something she wanted garage but quickly outgrew the
to do. Once each had seen her children to adulthood, space. They now have access
these two life-long gardening enthusiasts headed back
to school themselves, where they met in a class on to a hoop house, which they
landscape management at Montgomery College. They share with a couple.The couple
discovered they’d lived nearly parallel lives: each had
earned a master’s degree; each was married with two only needs the hoop house in
children. Each was looking for something that would the winter; Garden sPOTS needs
allow her to combine her passion for gardening with a
second career. it in the growing season. The
Lessne had become a University of Maryland Extension arrangement allows them to buy
Program Master Gardener, and to gain experience in earlier, store more and plan for
plant care worked part-time with a landscape designer/
installer and in a professional greenhouse. She also got a extended seasons.

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