FlowerShows&TheNewEconomy

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Hello Gardenwriterlistservers:

    In case you're not a regular New York Times reader, I'm passing along this link to a thorough account of the financial demise of the New England Flower Show and the state of flower shows across the country.
    Of interest, the layers of factors that affect success: from how much space greenhouses can afford to devote to forcing plants into flower for these shows, to the assessment that the next generation of gardeners value environmental benefits over aesthetics. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/us/07flowers.html
March Cheer,
~Cheryl Dorschner
Vermont Gardener...
...where the flower show is blooming in Burlington this weekend

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