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To: carriage_hill

Sorry to hear that Obama forced you in to retirement.

Also sorry that your customers lost a source for good products and service.

Those things are hard to come by these days.

I am fortunate to live in an area with quite a few good nurseries. A couple give the kind of service you describe.

But the competition here in that field is fierce.

On five mile stretch of road here there are at least that many nurseries.


22 posted on 12/23/2018 2:27:20 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac

All the large nurseries here, either went bankrupt, saw the writing on the wall and got out, or liquidated and retired.

The small, operate out of a pole bldg on their existing property, landscapers survived all the new usury taxes on plant material, climbing insurance premiums, and higher operating costs. My 50-60 vendor nurseries all over the US, did the same thing: went out of business.

My West Coast (Oregon) supplier of 1,300 Jap Maples died, and his son & daughter sold the 1,200ac property to a developer, who promptly bulldozed 1,000 specimen Jap Maples - larger collection even than mine - and built a massive housing development.

My rare, unusual, and hard-to-find conifer supplier, also in Oregon, was sold and resold 3x, and had to sell-off 100 of 200ac, just to pay new usury taxes on leftover inventory, and try to survive.

Small businesses mostly survived.

It was a sad year for the rest of us.


31 posted on 12/23/2018 3:04:22 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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