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	<title>The Blogging Nurseryman by Trey Pitsenberger</title>
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		<title>Narcissus instead of daffodils?</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=826</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We have all the bulbs at the nursery for half price. Another lousy bulb season, exasperated by poor decisions by the bulb company. For some odd reason they decided to re-label all the daffodils as narcissus. So we get in packages of daffodil bulbs and they come labeled as narcissus. No mention of the word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lying to make a sale?</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=825</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you don&#8217;t think the indie nursery business has enough to contend with these days, your not going to like this post  over at Doug Green&#8217;s  Blog. The post titled, &#8220;Six White Lies Garden Centers Tell Customers&#8221;, lists the various lies that garden centers tell their customers to make a sale.
Perhaps in Doug&#8217;s corner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The customer as garden center consultant</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=824</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Small business has worked on the assumption that if business is good, then whatever we are doing to earn that business is the correct thing. I would have to agree with that analogy. People do vote with their wallets. In the past some business would put out &#8220;suggestion cards&#8221; or what not, trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden writing, and garden centers</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=822</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just five years ago garden writers, and the garden center business we&#8217;re generally unaware of each others presence.  That&#8217;s changed, thanks to blogs and Facebook. Among my friends on Facebook many are garden authors, whom just five years ago I wouldn&#8217;t have known about. This cross pollination is exactly what the garden center business and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College student + dorm room + garden = future customer</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=821</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[our backyards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The headline, &#8220;College student finds creative outlet in dorm room garden&#8221;, got my attention. Gee, I wonder what he is up to? Well it turns out Matt Lehman, &#8221; has two tomato plants, beans and a cucumber plant doing quite nicely under the artificial lamps he has installed above the 1-by-3-foot wooden box he built.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s True!</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=814</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My question from yesterday has been answered.
Greenhouse Grower Magazine confirms that Color Spot Nurseries has purchased El Modeno Gardens Nursery. According to Greenhouse Grower, &#8220;El Modeno Gardens will close its doors after Oct. 31 and Color Spot Nurseries is purchasing the operation’s equipment, raw materials and inventory.&#8221;
It&#8217;s interesting how the nursery industry is fragmenting. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Color Spot, El Modeno, and the box stores</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=813</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been hearing rumors that Color Spot has bought El Modeno Gardens Nursery.  If it is true, Color Spot is emerging as the number one supplier of plant goods for the chain stores in the west and southwest. By purchasing El Modeno, Color Spot moves into the shrub and tree category along with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suddenly hydroponics is going mainstream, in Saigon!</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=812</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of my blog know we have been discussing bringing hydroponics into my garden center since July 2nd, 2008. Here is a list of articles I have done on the subject since then.  My latest post on the subject was just this week. It seems like the idea is somewhat less than welcome with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden Centers, Garden Clubs, and New Media</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=811</link>
		<comments>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=811#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Had a great talk yesterday in Carmichael for the district meeting of the California Garden Clubs. We had people from Lake Tahoe, Truckee, the Sacramento Area, and Foothills.  Talking to this group, and others over the years one theme I have reiterated is to get a web page up. A lot of younger people might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a garden center?, part 2</title>
		<link>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=808</link>
		<comments>http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=808#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Pitsenberger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the responses to my last post. I wanted to address a couple of them, since I have also asked some of these same questions. As to Christian&#8217;s concerns about an unsavory type of person buying this equipment, I am sure it happens. I wonder if nursery people back in the 70&#8217;s had the [...]]]></description>
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