Wow! That is impressive Bill! How much did you spend on that collection if I may ask?

No more room to plant anything Barb & Jim the yard is to small 😯 I did plant some stuff though 🙄

Tim,
Since I'm working on a few years worth of good connections and a ton of time, transportation, and work that would be a tough number 😉

Bill

Bill
I've been looking at your pictures over and over again and just haven't had time to post. When I heard you were starting a tropical nursery in MA I was skeptical on what that would look like. Well, I am very impressed! Your nursery is as lush and beautiful as any I ever seen here in S.C. I love nurserys where the plants are packed in the areas and there are paths that meander through the stock. You can spend hours in even a small area just admiring everything! Congratulations on a great job. Small nurseries such as yours can be very successful once "word of mouth" gets around. That may take several years to get the word out, so hang in there! I am certain yours is unique to the area.

Everything looks great Bill !

Thanks Penny!
I wasn't really 100% sure what it was going to look like either but it worked out. I agree with you totally about once people start talking about it things will pick up. I knew going in this year was going to be a learning year and wasn't really expecting to make to much money, that just seems to come with most new businesses though.

One good thing that happened over the weekend was a local fruit and vegetable/ nursery owner right up the road stopped by and was very impressed with what I've done. He even offered to bring people over here if he's slow. He said "I know people who would like this stuff and I don't sell tropicals" I plan on hooking him up pretty good.

Thanks Cameron,
How are your plants doing up there so far this year? The weather has been perfect here how about yours?

Bill

Bill,
your basic business plan seems much like that of the old man I bought my cabbage palm from. He has been going to Florida each March for a few years now and trucking purchases up to Tulsa, a little more each year. Probably a semi-load each April.
He rents part of a parking lot in a high-traffic location as his marketing.
He also has a "plan B" of sending plants that don't sell in Tulsa to a friend in Dallas who can over-winter what he can't sell down in Texas.
--Erik