Re: Gardening profits

**"Gene Bush" g*@otherside.com**

Hello Margaret,
    I can not give you the reasons behind the sales, but there are, indeed,
there. When we paid our last quarterly taxes I received a note from our
accountant. We are up 32% above the same period over last year at this time.
We were caught short and ended up disappointing a few of our customers who
ordered late in the season. Plants simply were not there to ship. We has
holes in the display area that looked like we were going out of business.
Did a lot of scrambling to get some of the more popular plants in and then
sold out of some of those. We had to move the fall stock in early to have
something out there for a visitor to look at.
    We will be increasing the numbers on each plant sold from inventory by
at least 20 to 25 % in the coming catalog. Which means almost having two
nurseries. The one on display the will only hold so many of each plant, and
then the one in holding area waiting its turn to come out as needed.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Lauterbach" <melauter@earthlink.net>
> 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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