 Believe it or not, we started in the starter business 20 years ago. If you missed our anniversary, don’t feel bad. It snuck up on us, too.
Milestones are fine, but ours is not a business that thrives on nostalgia. Propagators are by nature future-oriented. We project ourselves forward in time to your desired results, then work our way back to define the steps that will get you there.
It’s dangerous to drive a car by the rearview mirror, but since history plays a role in our projections, it’s informative to periodically turn and look back. Twenty years seems an appropriate perspective.
Most of our crops originate in the Florida Panhandle, a land blessed with hot summers, mild winters (mostly), and excellent light levels. When our weather is good, it’s very, very good. When it’s bad, it’s terrifying.
We’ve put up with some obnoxious guests over the years, especially a couple of blowhards named Dennis and Ivan. Everybody has trouble getting to work sometimes, but did you ever need a chainsaw and a winch just to clock in?
Fortunately, such ferocity is rare. The winds of change blow even harder, sweeping away customers, colleagues, and competitors. We miss them and salute them.
We’ve reacted to change in the marketplace, as businesses must. But we humbly submit that we’ve helped drive that change, too. By making available an ever-evolving menu of exciting products in easily managed forms, today’s propagators are moving horticulture forward.
We’ve had help. The green industries are the beneficiaries of unprecedented advances in hybridization, propagation, communication, and more. Yesterday’s theory is today’s fact. Tissue culture labs, unrooted cutting farms, breeding to order, patents, branding, Internet commerce — it’s all evolved around us from a potpourri of unconnected pipe dreams to the complex matrix of modern mainstream horticulture.
It’s been quite a ride. Our sincere thanks and congratulations to you, the loyal customers and brokers who’ve traveled the road and weathered the storms. We’ve come far together.
Let’s do it again.
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