Two Years in the Retail Nursery Business. Rose Farm Results

We've been running a plant business as a side-hustle for a number of years now, but it was only last year (2022) that we opened the farm with regular hours as a sort of retail nursery. It's true that we don't look the part of a true garden center. Customers who are accustomed to big parking lots, retail displays, nursery staff and cashiers may look at us as unfinished: a work in progress. And they'd be right!

We haven't gone ahead and built the more familiar "from the ground up" version of a retail garden center. Partly that would be from a reluctance to sink big money into the effort. Instead, we're trying to bootstrap our reputation from local plant sales, garden clubs and social media - and the result is a less formal shopping experience. We're adding more plants as we can propagate them (with some bought in for additional assortment) and we're now working on the bones of our display gardens.

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Photos:
International Test Garden by Another Believer CC BY-SA 3.0
Salvia bulleyana by Mikeschgardener CC BY-SA 4.0