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Re: [SG] Welcome Astri

Hello Astri,
        Boy!! Seems from your description on local nurseries no matter where one
travels the tale is the same. Same with many nurseries over here. In fact,
much of our perennial stock, catalogs, etc. come from The Netherlands. If
it can not be produced in the millions by mass production then it is left
by the way side. Also has to be so simple and easy to grow that you do not
have to know which end goes in the ground.
        All the big nurseries, shopping centers and garden centers carry much the
same plants. Even the supermarkets where one purchases groceries carry
perennials now. Many times they are used a give-aways to get you in to
purchase the food.
        While all of this is going on it is creating a market for we mall family
owned nurseries to specialize in service, experience and advice... time
with a customer to actually provide service. We can also stay out of the
mass area and offer plants that are slow to grow or difficult to propagate.
Most of us also offer display gardens to see the plants in active growth
with other interesting plants.
        One day, I too, will probably give in to the pressure of land becoming
worth more than the business sitting on it and sellout not to look back.
Nurseries take a tremendous amount of physical energy to own and operate.
Meanwhile I am having a good time and enjoying my plants... hoping that
others do as well.
        Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com

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> From: Astri Tverstol <astri.tverstol@JD.DEP.TELEMAX.NO>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SG] Welcome Astri
> Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 4:18 AM
>
> Hi Gene!
>
> Thanks for the welcome, I really enjoy this mailgroup. It's very useful,
and nice
> and friendly, too. I suppose it goes with gardening.
> You asked about plant nurseries in the Oslo area. Well, there really are
quite a
> lot, and a few good specialist nurseries as well. I believe most people
around
> here do their garden shopping at the huge garden centers. I used to do
so. too:
> but they're kind of dispiriting to me now. So many mass produced,
ordinary,
> partly mistreated plants! And no one to ask.
> So I've managed to find at least one well-stocked perennial nursery in
Asker,
> about 30 km west of Oslo, where I live. It's called Asker staudegartneri
> (staude = perennial), and is run by an elderly couple on land that is
threatened
> by road development. They stock about 600 different perennials, and
supply
> other nurseries both here and abroad (they grow seed for several of the
major
> European seed retailers).
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