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  • From: "Jessie Stephens" <jessie@texoma.net>
  • To: "gardenwriters-on-gardening" <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Excess plants
  • Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:25:54 -0500

This is a fascinating subject, since many of us have plants we would like to sell without having to open a nursery. But I have a question.
If you invite people in to tour your garden or to buy plants, will your homeowner's insurance be enough to cover all the problems, like visitors stumbling over watering hoses or getting stung by a wasp? Or do you need extra liability? Okay, I'm paranoid, but having been in business and seen how people can behave, I would want to make certain all possible risks were covered. 'Cause, Melanie, if you think people seem unthankful after you've given them plants, just let one of them get hurt on your property and see how they act. Has anyone looked into this subject?
 
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Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: [gwl-g] Excess plants

Melanie: I live on Ontario, not far from Toronto. We have a very large country garden that we have had on garden tours, and open garden days, and as a result I have collected a mailing list (mostly e-mail now).
 
We have a plant sale once a year on a couple of days in mid-May, and people on the list get invited. They often bring friends, which adds names to the list. Originally, we grew a lot of perennial for our garden (particularly native plants), and we sold the excess. My husband still grows a lot of alpines.
 
Now it's a bit of everything: seed grown plants, divisions, and wholesale plants I buy for the sale. It works well for us and people are happy with the prices. There are bargains, but we have steadily increased the prices of the plants we grow, and the plants I buy for the sale have a regular mark-up. I think the fact that it's an invited sale of people interested in gardening that makes it different. It avoids that 'garage sale' mentality of getting people who are only interested in a bargain basement prices.
 
We don't want to be a nursery, but we open our garden to visitors regularly, and it's nice to have a few plants to sell. People seem to love to take something home with them.
 
Yvonne Cunnington


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