All enthusiastic gardeners have the potential to turn their hobby into a profitable business, and it can be achieved with very little capital. Author Melanie Harrison, a former teacher, turned her passion for gardening into a successful plants-for-sale business, and in this inspirational book explains how to start your own plant business by selling from home or at the markets. The plant-seller can continue to operate on a small scale, or expand to operating an "open garden" with a nursery, a tea-garden, or a mail-order business.
Plants for Sale contains useful information on the art of potting, increasing your stock, increasing your profit, gardening-oriented money matters, expanding your business, and sidelines that can be sold (such as cut flowers, dried flowers, hanging baskets, bulbs, herbs, and indoor plants), as well as seasonal planting guides and comprehensive propagation notes.
Harrison writes: "If you have ever wandered through a beautiful garden and dreamed a dream like mine but felt you were incapable of achieving it, I hope this book will give you the inspiration and support we all need but are so rarely given. It is written to make your path a little smoother and prevent you from making some of the foolish mistakes I made as I fumbled along the plants-for-sale business road."
Plants for Sale is an indispensable guide for those who wish to make a living from their gardening skills.