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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Before we bought this place we lived in Eureka.  Roses love Humboldt County 
and our alley neighbor used to do testing for Jackson Perkins.  There was 
also another guy that did test growing for them that lived over by Safeway 
on the East side of town.  Both the frontyards were absolutely gorgeous. 
Just a riot of colors and big beautiful healthy plants.

About a year before we sold our place, the little house on the alley was 
sold.  I believe I mentioned that I got several hundred dollars in Italian 
porcelein 12" square tiles that the woman was going to take to the dump. 
Well, we weren't fast enough on the roses.  We came back from grocery 
shopping one day to see a dumpster being driven out and it was full of 
roses.  They dug up all those roses and had them hauled off to the dump! 
Just criminal.  And blessed if a year later, the house on the other side of 
town sold and the new owners did the same thing!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "clhw" <clhw AT infoave.net>

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> Recently, Jackson and Perkins opened a retail store with an outlet for
> Wayside Gardens in the same building, on the 72 By-Pass in the city of
> Greenwood. This is in the old Wal-Mart Plaza, before a super Wal-Mart was
> constructed. I'm really wanting to go see what they have. Most of the
> Wayside Gardens nurseries are in Hodges, which is a small Greenwood County
> town I travel through several times a week. They were mostly behind closed
> gates and operated as a catalog sales business only. I guess this outlet 
> is
> a trial effort to see how well it's received. It is about 1/2 mile from
> Jerry's Produce which sells Park plants in a big way. They hatch out Park
> seedlings and I like to buy my plants from them already on their way to
> growth.