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Originally Posted by Rickitikkitavi
No matter what happens with the economy my friend - a unique plant nursery is gonna work. Trick is keeping costs down. With craigslist here in PDX - this is easy stuff. A storefront? Pure overhead! Pure overhead unless there is lots of foot traffic or customer base is not internets (sic) savvy.
In our area - there have been several nurseries going out of business for months now and on c.l. Some regular brick and mortar nurseries post on craigslist for extra traffic. Gotta love c.l. You can find your next job, your next love, your next home, your next cold hardy banana tree - all on it.
I find that the defacto offer of a 'Shangri La Tour' gets them over here and paying customers every time. You could do it too. duh! The three sets of Tibetan Prayer Flags are popular. C.l. ad got me to them btw.
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Well the major draw would be the exotic nature of the business, such as isaw at plant delights, although the conjuncture with Juniper level botanical. People come to see the "jungle type atmosphere" but then the first thing i hear is b/c someone killed something there hard to grow. My local garden center is a large one but when they try to introduce new stuff the first thing they here is " i heard its hard to grow b/c. people tend to think something spectacular is going to happen from a stella d oro daylily and some boxwoods. someone told me once told me 90% of the time something dies is you did something wrong, not the plant
alex
