landscapers are plant people, too

**f*@aol.com**

Charles,
too true -- the golden rule (he who has the gold makes the rules) still reigns. A question for you, and any other landscaper/LA/designer/installer who'd like to comment. First, a little background: 
My employer is a wholesale grower. We produce starter plants (liners, cells) of a wide variety of herbaceous perennials and ornamental grasses, plus a few shrubs. Nearly all of our product is sold to wholesale growers who fatten our liner up in gallon pots -- some smaller, some larger. But in the grasses especially, we grow a big meaty 21-cell tray that can go straight into the ground. Even the smaller sizes (72s) are great for covering large swaths in reclamation jobs or on slopes.
The question: Are your clients (homeowners, businesses, municipalities, highway depts. or ____________) willing to wait while smaller plants get established? (They can save money and have more plants this way.) Or are most customers interested in immediate impact, so you have to spec big, full-grown specimens? 
RSVP
John Friel
Emerald Coast Growers

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles W. Bowers <charlie@gardengate.net>
Subject: Re: [GWL] helping landscapers become plant people

Don't paint us all with the same brush. Scream at the consumer, they are in the  
rivers seat and we have to figure out how to walk a line in order to put food on our families table like everyone does.
And BTW the green movement is stuck in neutral because the consumer  won't fund it, even when they believe in it.  Don't blame me for what the customer wants and they don't want  
o hear that they can't have it, especially the ones with enough money  
o pay for services.

Charles Bowers, President
arden Gate Landscaping, Inc.

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