"Twenty-two years ago, Paul Phelps opened an orchid nursery with his wife Patricia on their five-acre Keystone property. Today they sell and breed 30,000 plants.
... Paul and Patricia Phelps began selling orchids from a single greenhouse... Today, the couple spend eight to 12 hours a day watering and feeding their stock of 30,000 plants... Tucked away in a rural residential neighborhood, the nursery lacks walk-in traffic and instead relies on word-of-mouth business and a strong Web presence. The couple breed and sell orchids... the award-winning, $350 "Brassia Sunrise Glow" spider orchid, with its 18-inch-long flowers... is a special Phelps Farm variety, one of the nursery's 818 orchid hybrids and an Award of Merit winner from the American Orchid Society... In March, the couple won the American Orchid Society trophy for best display at the annual Tampa Bay Orchid Society show. ... The couple built a second greenhouse in 1992, with a third, designed solely for hanging plants, currently under construction." URL : http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jun/08/pa-orchids-a-fertile-business **************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
