Diana, You have described what I aim to become almost exactly. I fell in love with a cream clivia almost 15 years ago and started collecting. I decided six years ago that I wanted a hobby nursery specialising in bulbs I sold my first plant last year and can still count the number of plants I have been able to sell in total on body parts (ie fingers and toes). I have had a job full time job over these years and have just gone part time two months ago to twenty five hours per week so I can spend more time in the garden building some infrastructure as I planned to have finished four years ago. It has been a long and hard journey but also a passion. I once read the problem with small nurseries is that they are run by plant lovers and that is their problem they don't always love the plants that sell to the mass markets. One day I will retire and be able to spend more time in the garden with the hope that I will be able to supplement my income with some plant sales. Kind Regards and Best Wishes Ron Redding Hervey Bay Australia >From: "Diana Chapman" <rarebulbs@cox.net> >Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >Subject: Re: [pbs] Bulbs for India/ mom n pop / specialists >Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:48:21 -0800 > >Dear Jim and all: > > > So here's my thoughts... why aren't there more new mom-n-pop > > nurseries that sell specialty plants really well? > >We've seen a big increase in small specialty nurseries in the past two >decades, and I hope this is the wave of the future, but land prices and >competition from big enterprises both here and overseas is putting a real >dent in this. > >Diana >Telos Rare Bulbs > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Fresh jobs daily. Stop waiting for the newspaper. Search now! http://www.seek.com.au/ http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx/…