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"US: April is the "Black Friday" for wholesale nurseries"

Located in the rolling hills of northern Baltimore County, Hershfeld’s wholesale nursery has 15 greenhouses, with a total of four acres under cover. The houses range from simple plastic-covered-frame structures — poly houses — to vast, state-of-the-art glazed greenhouses with computer-controlled venting, misting and shading systems. The company does about 75 percent of its business between late winter and May, he said.

“When the winter breaks, anything that’s healthy, with a flower, we can sell,” he said. Actually, forget about the flower bit. One greenhouse full of cool-season vegetable transplants is already empty. “People are so anxious to get out and start gardening.”

Read more at The Washington Post