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Growing trend at California nurseries.

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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