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So You Want to Start a Nursery is an excellent introduction to getting going growing green plants for green money. Tony Avent of Plant Delights Nursery in Raleigh N.C. wrote it, and anyone who has seen his catalog or heard him speak can testify to his expertise.
It is also a very sobering book. Having a successful landscaping business which has grown more profitable as it has grown more specialized makes me wary of the "think of the money we'll save/make if we grow our own plants" mindset.
That said, my woman, Spiderlilly, is taking two courses on market-growing/flower farming this winter as we eye 7.5 acres adjacent to us that is for sale.
I dabbled in nursery production a few years back and found the conflicts between tending my own plants for sale and caring for my landscape clients' plants for profit a stressful, overly demanding place to be
But the allure of tilling the earth to bring forth beauty, bounty and bucks is hard to resist.
Good Luck!
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