Re: Gardening profits

**" Peter Loewer"t*@earthlink.net**

I've been canvasing our local nurseries for three months and find that
Margaret's view is right on: Plant sales are on the up BUT not one of the four
big plants in my area of Western North Carolina is selling much of any
hardgoods; chairs, tables, umbrellas, tools, etc., continue to be on sale.
Also, because of an extended drought through much of North and South Carolina,
landscape designers and garden installers are having a hard time. A to garden
columns, the local daily went to using extension agents some five years ago
(Gannet Paper), a continuing problem that most professional agencies (like
GWAA) choose to duck. Extension agents cannot accept money for their work. 
Peter Loewer

On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 08:48:11 -0600 Margaret Lauterbach
<melauter@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I've just talked to one nursery in my area, but
> the perennials manager said 
> they're having a great year of sales.  Their
> greenhouses are nearly bare, 
> and they're awaiting a truckload of new plants
> to arrive next week. We are 
> in an area with several new chain stores that
> carry plant materials, 
> too.  I think people are staying home more, and
> gardening is far more fun 
> than watching vacuous game shows or gross
> ingestions in the name of 
> "survivorship."  I think the magazines and
> newspapers that cut gardening 
> columns were far out of line.  Margaret
> Lauterbach
> 
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