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Growing trend at California nurseries.
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Record (Stockton, CA)
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September 18, 2005
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2005 The Record. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Reed Fujii
Sep. 18--San Joaquin County nurseries are growing in more ways than one.
County production of woody ornamentals -- trees and shrubs used in landscaping -- barely topped $1 million per year in the mid-1980s. But that has changed. Last year, farm officials estimated the value of such plants at nearly $55 million.
All of San Joaquin's nursery production -- woody ornamentals, bedding annuals, potted indoor plants, sod, fruit trees, grapevines, vegetable seedlings, bulbs, cactus and more -- were worth nearly $138 million in 2004, more than twice the value produced just 10 years earlier.
That makes the county one of the leading areas for ...
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