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[Music] so you know they don’t all look flawless all the time but so be it
no exactly that’s the That’s the nature of the beast i need I need definitely need some of this in my
The lickness is fun
this is lickness is fun and um there’s you know obviously we in we’re from I’m from Oklahoma City
and I can grow a lot of this but not all of it and the other thing is is the um the nature of growth here it just gets massive and where we are
things are just kind of naturally contained by the heat
well and we’ve also had an unusually wet cool spring too
so everything is everything is kind of extra bulky um you know they’ve they’ve liked the water
the water and then they they spllay from just the physical weight yeah i mean these nebas you know they they’re due for a divide and is this Walker’s Low
I think so yeah or Six Hills Giant is the um
another one that we use a lot we have a head gardener named Cheryl Whan who’s very talented and you know she knows what self- sewers to leave be which ones to edit
um
you know I don’t need to tell you this is it’s constant it’s a It Okay I love that i uh would you remember that
just say I would like to quote you on that it’s a constant edit at a certain point it’s no longer what you plan it’s just really it’s what you edit out
well and I say you know that could sound like a chore but that’s just that’s what we’re doing here
it’s artistry it’s artistry look at this what is this
this is a polyanthis type called pretty poly pink i I think I have that right
oh my gosh
pretty poly pink yeah um you know so that spray form and it does this year after year with without a beat
well the intensity the intensity of the color
especially with with a little cloud color really jumps out at you
but not you know look at this i just love this pre you know in some ways this is so much more enticing to me than even the bloom because it’s there’s got that sense of expectation
this plant’s just getting started yeah yeah
yeah it’s a nice
Now I had I have never had issues in growing aliens before this year really and this year we were so wet
oh interesting
and of course I even with additional supplemental drainage added
um you know we garden in heavy clay
yeah right
and and
at a certain point bulbs just tap out
they Well they do and you have to kind of just know that what is not good for one type of plant will be good for another type of plant and it will respond
better um this garden in the spring has is has a nice carpet of forget me knots which is you know one of the self seers that we kind of let go um
and and your ladies mantle the alchemilla yep
oh my gosh what I would give this is my my favorite thing
nice fresh color
the way this the raindrops
yeah bedazzled
the Oh it it’s just we often have aliium chrisi down sort of uh you know bouncing off of it which is a fun combo it does not it does not like our prairie soil no it does not like it or our prairie heat or
Yeah it wouldn’t be normal it wouldn’t normally be this big this early but again everything’s sort of extra lush this year
mhm
lots of salvas like I said we grow lots of irises tall bearded and otherwise
is this a GM
yeah I think that’s totally tangerine
okay how sweet is that do you sell seed
uh we don’t sell seed
we don’t sell seed just sell plants so I’m making a notation of things that I’m going to have to order we use one called M Thai which is not as tall and is a sort of less strong orange but they’re such a nice in between season plant and the way they you know they find their find their way between other things so nicely
one one um form of plant that I’m becoming increasingly obsessed with are are are plants that I call the hoverers they just hover delicately above
you know everything else and they kind of blow in the wind and they’re they’re almost stringy or or something that’s like you can see things insinuate themselves
through them and I’m I’m That is like a midsize hover
and oh my goodness look at the color
well I have a that’s at last is the peach one um I have a soft spot for yellow roses myself so um you know we’ll always have plenty of those and again the fragrance is just
Yeah you can just We’re just kind of
unbelievable we’re covered in it right now
just unbelievable yeah it’s delicious
have you had and I No one has said yes so far that I’ve interviewed had any problem with rose rosette we haven’t seen it here that I’m aware of
um although now that you say that that looks a little ominous um it’s funny i hadn’t even noticed that before you know they you might know Linda they is the multifllora rose is a reservoir of it
i I know that you know the knockouts really are particularly prone to it one thing where I have suspected I had it at my own home because it’s got this characteristic really dark color and the witch’s broom form and the excessive thorniness
but one thing about this is
however you’ve got a whole look at the whole
Yeah that might just be young
that might be young and the other the other thing is
is it growing straight or is it growing crooked and in a contorted way and this looks to be growing straight so that’s so that’s a good sign but um
I’m not aware that we’ve seen it on the property it has been seen in Connecticut
it’s been really bad in Oklahoma i believe that
really bad i mean and it has taken out even disease resistant roses really old-fashioned mammoth roses it’s It’s been heartbreaking
well and there’s there’s no tool right it’s just
No there’s nothing other than uh shovel shovel pruning
shovel pruning yeah look at that so you know this is a we’re sort of past the foot traffic peak for our for our store um which is kind of a shame because the gardens just keep getting stronger here you know
we’re sort of just getting started this is a cool plant Linda i don’t know if you grow arenums but um you know looks like nothing else um
like a sea holly
yeah yeah yeah yeah and you know from from silvers to these sort of steelely blues just a cool
and it it demands pretty good drainage does it not and that’s that’s always an issue where where we are but boy it’s spectacular and
once you get it going
it’s a very popular cut flower
yeah right filler in the vase like you said it will it’ll rot out on you if uh with wet feet Yeah yeah well I’m not sure whose adage it is that you don’t know a plant until you kill it three times
i think that’s so true
but uh we’re not afraid to kill plants around here you know that’s just Okay could you say that again we’re not afraid to kill plants around here
we’re not afraid to kill plants
quote unquote we you know people we don’t have all the answers you know we know what we know about gardening here in Connecticut and uh and so we try to help people wherever they are and you know and we ship plants to the lower 48 but we we certainly can’t know it all much as we wish we did
well and isn’t every garden a trial garden
exactly when is it it it never ends in my book
yeah i think every garden is a trial garden oh my goodness this long view
yeah it’s nice
of that i think probably my favorite color combo is this yellow purple
lavender white i think it’s my favorite color combo we use this companula quite a bit just you know sort of plays nicely with everybody
it is and the bell-shaped flowers and it seems like we haven’t passed one thing that doesn’t make a good cut flower
no it’s it’s a good point yeah so do you have your own favorites
um that’s a great question um I’m interested in grasses we’re using more grasses in the gardens um I’m interested in things that have interesting foliage you know that are sort of interesting to look at all year
um you know I remember Kelly Norris saying you know if you take a photograph of a garden is it still interesting if it’s in black and white
different shapes different textures i think that’s a pretty uh sophisticated that’s more sophisticated gardening than I’m capable of but it’s a nice way of thinking about it do you have um a list of greatest hits perennials that you would say for the most part look really good at three three seasons if not four
uh well we don’t have four season gardening here so um four would be a reach i mean we have we have perennials that we think of as super tried and true you know uh rubecia um and lucanthemum and uh you know the the woodies um hydrangeas and
um
the salvas maybe
yeah lots of perennial salvas the nepidas uh you know we we’ll never be accused of being a super progressive nursery because we like the classics you know right right and the classic English gardening type
it is yeah we that’s a little bit our heritage um now you were saying earlier oh I I love I’m I’m I’m really obsessed with pinston now i I think there are so many and there are some that are natives there are so many that are just
really really lovely and one of one of my favorite design things is just great color echoes and the color of them make such great color echoes with other parts of other plants like I’m looking in this with is Frangelica over here and it’s just it it’s just glorious um
dark foliage is always kind of
dark yes it it’s interesting and it has an emotional quality
that I think some others don’t oh this is wonderful don’t
Yeah who is this tell me about this purple rain
so you know perennial form low lower growing
oh I love this
and we grow a lot of the tender salvas as well including in containers but uh the perennials we find they you know they reliably overwinter for us here this leaf form is very distinctive different
okay along with that GM this is another one I’m adding to my shopping list i’ll I’ll try to share um my shopping list with all of you of the things that I’m going to be ordering
so that you can know but I mean look at the drama of this look at just the drama
yeah it’s funny that mother plant comes back reliably for us um
Wow wow and you know nothing else like it in the garden that’s for sure
well it’s just it’s so statuesque and it’s it and it is so modern great ar you know great architecture great form
so you said you really are into grasses and things what type of grasses are you particularly drawn to we’re using blue stems both big and little more um we’re using sedges not grasses technically but more sedges in the gardens
mhm
um we use Carl Forester quite a bit um
which almost always looks nice
um and it’s a you know that’s a giant plant pallet that I had a lot to learn about and it’s fun to fun and it’s um it’s one that
in in my opinion
it really needs room to romp though i mean in a in a really small garden I don’t think it you can do it justice typically
u maybe in a container but even that is kind of confining well and a and a seven foot calamrastus looks strange in a eight square foot garden you know yeah
you think oh my goodness loopins yeah we like our loopins
you’re not going to find that
we like our digitalis um we like our
loving love i love this color and this for me it blooms fairly early and then you just cut it back and it will just
keep pushing
come back again and one thing I love about the sages is I think they’re so beautiful in a dried form every bit as beautiful as dried lavender or anything and I I even like the fragrance in a dried state
we grow a lot of clemetus
yes
yeah thealis is fun we’ve got clemetus kind of tucked away in a lot of the gardens um there’s of course a million nice ones
oh there’s a million nice ones i I used to have a million nice ones until Clemetus will arrive
yeah right another plant I I need to use more i I just love it i think tukrium is just has so much to commend it and I used to grow it and I don’t so now that’s reminding me that I need to I need to um
not the most dramatic twirl but it it it does what it does very nicely
it’s a stalwart and it and it’s and I love anything that’s has a tiny leaf or a small leaf or that in any way kind of resembles boxwood and two cream is just wonderful and I love its kind of glossiness like this combo of just the matte gray leaf of the stackus
right [Music] [Music] yeah so this garden you know is still is still young but
So how you say it’s still young so how long has this been here
i think this is its fifth or sixth summer maybe
that’s all it’s fifth or sixth summer and we’re we’re learning things out here every day you know which is
So how talk a little bit about your assessment process and what what we’ll give it a three strikes and you’re out rating
yeah well I I don’t want to I don’t want to make it sound like we are as rigorous as you know the RHS or Mount Cuba or Chicago Botanic but
or even extension center in your local university oh this is okay what is this that is is this too a kind of scabiosa
yes thank you the word was escaping me
okay so I need I need desperately some of that yeah great color but I interrupted you go ahead
no I you know so our trial process is is less formal we don’t do row trials here um and we’re not counting pollinator visits and that sort of thing it’s sort of a you know do we like it do we not like it do we like it for two years do we like it for three years
is it a good color combo is it a good color is it being successful in your client’s garden
what do Exactly what do we hear from customers about it you know something that’s routinely failing for customers you know we don’t want to keep keep pushing on people
right can we kind of veer off this
absolutely yeah [Music] we call this next stretch the Lloyd border um
the Lloyd border as in Christopher Lloyd christopher Lloyd
yeah so um this garden was originally designed and installed by uh Fergus Garrett um
Oh wow you know Christopher Lloyd’s protege and um and wizard of Great Dickster and and Cheryl looks after it and it’s evolved quite a bit this garden went in in the early 2000s and you know it has a lot of English gestures beach hedge as the backdrop
um woody plants as sort of cornerstones and then you know Cheryl has a bit of a tough job in that she’s constantly having trial plants you know dropped in her lap
right
um well what I love about this people often ask “How can I make my garden less highmaintenance?” And I’ll say “Plant shrubs.”
Yeah
plant blooming shrubs plant shrubs that have great
folar color to them um or great form even if it’s not you know your smoke trees up here get so much more massive than they do where we are
but it but glorious in the intensity of this
and plant densely yeah and plant absolutely I I often get this comment at my cottage garden that Linda you’ve got too many plant that the eye doesn’t know where to rest and I say well that’s the nature of a cottage garden and the other thing is that’s why I don’t spend a lot of time weeding because of that
well we don’t want to be in the mulch game you know we want to be in the interesting plant game
exactly and you want to spend your time with the plants and not time with the mulch if you can um boy that rud beckium maxima it’s getting ready to go
yeah it is getting ready to maximize to maximize
yep that’ll be tree high in not too long
and boy the degree of flowering
yeah i’m not sure how many people think of spyhea but it’s hard not to like them
they were used um so uniquely at Hollister House
oh yeah it’s such a beautiful
I mean they I don’t know if they had gone to seed and they were coming up at the base of the rise of the steps
oh how nice
and the effect was just unbelievable
that’s a special place i’m glad you guys visited
oh it was just incredible and the use of this and the intensity of the color of your bloom
is also very different here
uh
and boy look at that grass back there there yeah that is uh
uh uh Klein Spilber yeah yeah Miss Yeah that right
i’m sure the comment section will correct my pronunciation you know that’s that’s okay oh that Midnight Marvel all of this is exceptional just really exceptional and it’s so the scale is so brilliant
well we we’re not under any illusions that people are going to go home and plant 300t borders right
the hope is that there’s something in here that catches your eye that gets you excited that you’re not familiar with and you know you take a you take a small bite and take it home with you well I think you know I have as much avarice as any gardener and I I would love to have one of everything you have here but I have to be very discriminating in what my list will contain absolutely
because I only have so much real estate and
hours in the day and
and hours in the day and I grow in a different zone but this is just absolutely it’s just absolutely spectacular so you know light is every bit as important a player as anything in the garden and today we’ve got this soft English light
um what must it be when some of this is back lit in the morning or back lit in the evening
that’s my you know this is my 8:00 p.m stroll in the summer time
oh my gosh and this garden has a is has a long way to go to be fooled out um by you know by late September it’s just overflowing yeah yeah but just the just the shadows and the and I’m so envious of your soil
the quality of your soil is spectacular
this this you know this garden is worked regularly i think that’s part of it um we don’t do we don’t particularly fertilize we don’t particularly mulch but it’s you know you do get some control of the weeds over the years but there’s that you know there’s that thing if you mulch that suppresses weeds but it also suppresses some of the things that you want to selfseed and come back and so there’s that tension yeah friend or foe
yeah and you were saying earlier that you really don’t use chemicals me many chemicals at all here and look at how beautiful it is
even in our you know our greenhouse production which is kind of on the other side of this knob um we’ve gone a long way towards beneficial insects um and reduce chemical usage uh for all the obvious reasons
now this is an epida what does this bloom look like this is deer
little Yeah little white
oh that is deer yeah
and does it
smells great
may I yeah please yep
oh my goodness that fragrance is exceptional
it’s delicious yep
it’s nice
minty fresh yeah cat mint okay add that to my list
i mean among the many nice ones we grow this has been kind of a standout it’s cherry frost if I remember correctly and uh cherry frost yeah it’s again just just bulletproof not a lot of winter dieback for us and off to the races
and I’m not usually a big fan of red roses but this is a good one in a
I can really see this in a contemporary setting with other very very deep folings and it looks great with the stems of what all what is that
um that’s upum coming on yeah
wow look at how large it so this combination of this black almost black stem and this dark rose is just fabulous so te tell me about could because beach is something not common in my neck of the woods
and you’ve got these are these weeping beaches what are these down here
um
this is just crab apple
oh it’s a crab apple seriously and what what is this over here
that’s this is a weeping beach
okay yep the big shaggy guy and our uh our taxodiums the swamp cypresses for that have been here forever for some reason um I like that guy the scale is just
it’s a real exceptional you go in there and it’s sort of like you’ve
you know gone down the rabbit hole a different world in there
yeah yeah they went in when the garden went in so they’re only 20ome years old
okay but these trees will do four or six feet a year
and these are just common green giant
it works
you know what I have at home right in in a border i’ve got a a border of these and then in front of that I’ve got a beautiful stand of moon dance hydrangea from Southern Living Plant Collection and then white encoreas in front of it but I can keep that contained because things just don’t grow in my neck of the woods like they do here but that is absolutely fantabulous and just would be Oh gosh the cutings at Christmas time
there’s a little garden down here what is that
this is um I mean I always call it our tree peie grove it’s a little bit past um but uh we have some some tree panies that have been here for decades um and Siberian iris which we use quite a bit even the herbaceous pianies are mostly passed um and there’s you know our sort of more vaguely more
woodland
you know the hukeras and the turelas and the um the shades of apricot that you have here are very distinctive and really I don’t know if anybody cares about a juga but in the right in the right space if it it does its job
I think Juga is I think it’s invaluable and I know some people say it’s invasive but we have um in Oklahoma it will go where it wants to go and then large patches will die out and then but then it comes up someplace else and I think it’s indispensable as a ground cover particularly in areas where you can’t grow grass for one reason or another
and there’s different varieties now and that the little blue flower that comes out
yeah we don’t find it you know we find it controllable
um
now is this a different golden variety here
yeah what who are you
yeah this is
paradise different color palette
boy if you were playing up rust tones and Yeah it’s lovely
it is lovely so how much supplemental watering do you have to do in the summer
um quite a bit if it goes really dry yeah
you know we haven’t had that problem thus far this
I mean it’s rained I don’t know 16 Saturdays in a row or something but
um so this is you know the this is lab space if you will um we’ve got
Oh this is fun this is really fun so this is all Dalia at the moment we we’ve got I don’t know 75 Dalia in trial um both new varieties and old just to make sure that they’re
are what they’re supposed to be and who do we like who do we not like
right the uh the Martigan liies are you know firing on all cylinders at the moment
uh now this is something you rarely see in Oklahoma rarely see we have a bunch of all American selections
oh my word okay add this to my list
yeah they’re they’re fun and happy
pretty happy we have lily leaf beetle and uh and that is something that we will use spinus ad against if we need to
um but they’re cool plants
and this color and that modern garden I just can really see it if you want more of a masculine quality more of a modern Yeah that would be a beautiful combination look at the seed heads here look at
So we’re big on oriental poppies
oh my gosh
and in fact we’re uh we grow them in So we have a field growing operation down the road
oh my word okay
and we’re growing oriental poppies which you tell me i I feel like they’re not maybe as available as one would think they are not readily available um I would I would say almost unavailable yeah so we offer I don’t know probably more than a dozen varieties for for fall just even if you just grew them to get the pods look at how beautiful the pods look
even the pods in a vase is is pretty darn neat so that’s something we have a a soft spot for division crop and yeah so sunflowers and uh you know we have a bunch of all American selections out were we’re a sort of de facto trial site for them this year um oh you’ll uh we should go in here Linda you’ll get a kick out of this so we sell tubers they’re delivered in the spring they come out of the box these dinky little tubers you would never expect
that they make these unbelievable plants but they do
so what is the secret to them being happy
oh well they there is some specific culture and we’ve got enormous instructions online okay um it’s nothing terribly exotic they just you know they need a little monitoring and
no overhead watering and
No exactly the richness the intensity i mean these these beonas they they are the definition of voluuptuous in so much I think more dramatic way even than roses i think they they have this velvety quality look at that orange one oh my word yeah that one if I were if I were going to become a collector of sorts
I don’t think it would be orchids or probably even succulents i think it would be bagonas well Blackmore and Langden is a very cool nursery they do a lot of work with delphinium uh and of course they’ve won a bajillion gold medals at Chelsea and um
now this is a display garden but you do sell the tubers we sell tubers in the spring yep and so this collection will you know it’ll peak in another month or so and once it’s passed our head gardener will put it to bed and uh do it again next year
so when I purchase my tubers I will get literature that tells me everything I need to do to overwinter them
and we’ve got a a blog post on our website that is uh you know to the week basically what you need to do
very thorough okay great because this is I I can really tell a new pound found passion of mine
all the leaves are so unblenmished and
they’re really special and and we’re it’s a a 70-year relationship with this nursery in England that we’re really happy to
I don’t know it’s a very emotional rel and I think it’s um it bespeaks your connection and obviously your mutual love for this
yeah there’s also a certain kind of Victorian quality about them I think that isn’t present in other plants
oldfashioned glass house stuff yes yes but again it’s just And so many of the blooms are by colored and I back lit
there are a couple fragrant ones which I probably won’t be able to pick out on the fly but that does occur from time to time
may I please yeah give them a try
look at that [Music] okay so I’m going to ask you a question that I bet all of you out there are also wanting to ask it’s my question of the day if I want to order you know in the south sometimes we try to do most of our planting in the fall though certainly we can do it in the spring also and we are placing an order with white flower farm talk to me a little bit about your your fall and spring shipping policies habits etc
well we’re definitely on the northern gardener schedule so we start shipping in March most years depending on the weather
we ship by hardiness zone so we’ll work from you know starting in warmest zones
okay we’ll ship perennials and shrubs first we’ll ship annuals and tender plants as the weather permits okay
mostly you’ll see on our website ships at the right time for planting so we keep an eye on the weather and we try to put plants in the gardener’s hand at the right time for them
primarily spring planting do you do much
we do we do a lot of bulbs in the fall perennials and and shrubs um you know annuals for us is a springtime game up here so um and then in the holiday season amorillis and indoor flowering plants and
different I I have gotten many emerillas from my flower farm and I have gifted um many times what what was your your fabulous daffodil collection what was the name
the works probably
the works i have um not to be morbid but many times rather when someone when someone passes instead of sending fresh flowers I will get the works and sometimes even help people plant them
well they’re forever it’s a testimonial to you know to that versus Oh that’s lovely
yeah and I think um yeah it’s the works the infamous the works
the the best daffodil mix in the game i Yeah yeah yeah and and good by the hundreds better by the thousands there you go well said gardens you know these borders get a little mish mashy because that’s what we’re doing right um
but again there are some sort of cornerstone you know the willow the dogwood um some things that are that persist
uhhuh oh yet another cool cat nepida
mhm you could do a garden of nothing but nepa
you really could and I love the the setting and I love the concept i mean this is just traditional English stuff you know English border kind of stuff now for you it’s a pract it’s serving very practical business purposes
but but very much so and then look at at at a structure behind it and just how glorious
this concept
right
can be interpreted if if you have this kind of soil and this kind of expanse and this kind of expertise
yeah well just a few things just a few
prerequisites things boy I have seen a lot of this uh sumac
yep
this was very very popular uh and it may still be for a while but how beautiful does it look with the purple um with any kind of purple foliage plants and I and I would en encourage people to come visit White Flower Farm uh just to get planting ideas
just to rearrange your own gardens in perhaps some more effective color combinations because I’ve already gotten numerous color
combination experiments
it’s a never- ending game and that’s the hope that uh you know you something here catches your eye and you give it a try at home
you know and some of it is just accidental what is this orange lovely over here
yeah that’s another martigan lily
oh that’s lovely that’s my new I can tell that’s going to be a new obsession of mine love that just love that [Music] okay
this is very Klaus Dolby are you familiar with Klaus he’s he’s a a social media friend of mine we’ve done a lot of things together oh
wonderful
yeah and this is very Klaus Dolby
what What a gorgeous color and have you noticed that that you know not all pinks play well together you have to have just the right pink if it’s too coralally if it doesn’t have enough blue behind it or something then the whole thing can can be off but this composition is spectacular yeah i love Claus’s work we’re we’re not operating at his level but uh some
I don’t think many of us many of us are i wrote the forward for his second book oh did you i didn’t know that
yeah and um he is Yeah he he transcends what we mere mortals can do right
and then this is this is your
retail yeah so it’s uh you know it’s a little picked over at this stage of the game but um some of this we grow some of it’s bought in
um and uh you know try to have things that are easy easy for people to pick up and take home
now here’s something I just noticed annuals because because this is basically isolated to annuals they have a very distinct fragrance completely different from perennials
yeah it’s it’s a little vegetital in here
if they’re in isolation
a completely different fragrance and of course not all annuals are fragrant website resources if you’re a new gardener if if you’re a southern gardener if you’re whatever what other resources do you have on your website that they could tap into as a really just free content
no it’s it’s we have so we have a blog which we try to keep updated we have every category of plants you could think of pollinators natives sun shade deer resistant all grouped and available
um you know you can shop by hardiness zone you can shop by color let me ask you another question because when I first started to garden the White Flower Farm catalog was my Bible it was such a good reference tool does White Flower still Can you get on your catalog mailing list
yeah we we mail cataloges some people would say too frequently probably but
Okay so if you want to get Okay so where if people want to
you’ll find it on our website you can request a whiteflowerfarm.com request a copy you can join our email list we’ll uh yeah there’s a lot of ways there’s a lot of information on the site and um yeah people can find
and I I think digital resources are great but I think hard copy resources are something that you can take out to the garden with you you can circle that on the page you have uh a reference that you can cut and paste literally cut and paste into your garden journal to give you ideas on really exceptional compositions and plants that will do well in your area
yeah and we also have humans picking up phones you know so that’s a novel
it’s pretty exotic it’s a new technology we’ve been working on
um but if you have a plant problem if you have a question you give us a ring you know we don’t know we don’t know everything about gardening in Oklahoma but right
we can coach we can recommend plants we can problem solve
um you know we’re little and we need to do little company things and that’s that’s part of it is being a resource and I think conversely I think all of you out there that are southern gardeners like myself or garden in the southwest you too can be helpful to Elliot by saying “Okay I had an absolutely fabulous experience with this plant that I got from here i want you to know it it held up it performed brilliantly.” So that you can add that notation to your website saying “Oh Southerners approved or
and the reverse by the way this was awful.” uh and you’ve got this fact wrong or it’s it’s this not that we want to know all this stuff
i love this about small businesses i love this about small businesses no matter how um you know how iconic they are in the industry nevertheless it’s an exchange
we’re in the customer customer business
customer service well I have gotten great customer service here good i’m glad today thank you so much for doing this i do want to with your permission we’re just going to go down into the area and show where people people can actually come and shop here right now maybe pick up a catalog or two um and give you an idea of what the where the business side is after we’ve seen all of these spectacular borders thank you my friend thank you Linda appreciate it [Music]