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Re: Perennial Flower news

Doug,

Congratulations on your great new job!

My good friend, Dennis Swartzell, who has been the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas Arboretum, Landscape, and Grounds Director for the past 20 years has
just accepted a position as marketing director for Mountain States Wholesale
Nursery in Arizona.  That is way Southwest, but the responsibilities of the
two jobs sound very similar.  I wondered if the two of you might find some
useful information to share.  With your permission, I would like to forward
your announcement to him.  Will wait to hear from you, though.

Linda Schaffner
Columnist, Southwest Trees & Turf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Green" <dgreen@simplegiftsfarm.com>
To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 8:44 AM
Subject: [GWL]: Perennial Flower news


> Hey guys:
>
> I thought I would let my fellow garden writers list now of an exciting new
> development.  Valleybrook Gardens, Canada's premier supplier of herbaceous
> perennial flowers made me an offer I simply couldn't refuse.:-)
>
> Many of you will know of Valleybrook's "Heritage" Perennials - they're the
> ones grown in square blue pots - in 1500 different varieties. While
> Valleybrook is a wholesale nursery with no direct consumer sales, part of
> my new job is to help you discover whatever you need to know about
> perennials plants.
>
> They needed somebody to work with customers and garden writers in the
> Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes States and I'm it.  :-)  Sort of a one-stop
> shopping for perennial information.
>
> I'll still be writing my syndicated column and books but I'll also be
> offering fellow garden writers some special services related to perennial
> flowers.
>
> For example, if you need a speaker for a horticultural event, Valleybrook
> is willing to pay my expenses to do the talk.  You simply have to have one
> of our dealers ask me to do it and involve them in arranging/ sponsoring
> the event.  If you're interested, I can provide you with the names of
> dealers in your local area that carry the "Heritage" Perennials and can
> work with both of you on this.
>
> If you're in the trade, Valleybrook will also sponsor me to talk to trade
> association meetings on a variety of retailing and business topics.  I've
> written about these things for the past twenty years in a variety of trade
> magazine articles and am more than willing to share 23 years of retailing
> experience.
>
> Fellow Canadians will know John Valleau (he wrote the "Perennial Gardening
> Guide" now in its third revision) - both John and I are now working
> together to provide gardening information about our "Heritage" perennials
> to you guys as well as our trade customers.  In fact, if you go to
> http://www.perennials.com  (that's pretty easy to remember) you'll find
one
> of the best searchable databases of perennials on the Net.
>
> I'll be in touch with other perennial news on a regular basis.  And if you
> need to contact me, you can still get me *offlist* at
> dgreen@simplegiftsfarm.com until I figure out how to use my new
valleybrook
> address. ;-)
>
> Doug
>
> ps. I was at the nursery this past week and a few pots simply jumped into
> my car and followed me home.  I tried to stop them - I really did - but
> they overpowered my gardening resistance.  That double flowering primula
> (in full bloom of course) simply didn't give me a chance.
> Douglas Green,
> Freelance writing: You've got a story to tell - I can write it.
> http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com/clips/clipmaster.htm
>
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