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US (IN): Greenhouse owners can relax before mum season

With most of the spring’s flowers and plants long gone, the slow-down at Rexing’s Blumenhaus was expected and even welcomed by Becky Rexing. It was a chance to relax and catch her breath before the mum growing season hit.

“We opened April 11th,” Rexing said of the business she and her husband, Todd, have run for the past two years. All 14 of the Blumenhaus greenhouses were full with 1,000 ferns, 25,000 geraniums and various annuals when the selling began.

As of Thursday, less than a quarter of one greenhouse held plants and the house next to it was nearly empty. The other twelve houses sat devoid of everything but wooden slat tables, gravel walkways and some sparse weeds. “That’s how quickly we went through everything,” she said.

Once a full-time teacher, Becky Rexing decided to grow mums with her husband in a side lot of their Haubstadt, Indiana home.

Read more at The Washington Times