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Article: STALKING THE STRANGE IN THE PLANT KINGDOM UNUSUAL STRAINS FILL MICHIGAN NURSERY.(AT HOME)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 29, 1995
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Byline: MARTY HAIR Knight-Ridder
Not everyone in Fowlerville, Mich., knows the way to Arrowhead Alpines. The route is off a dirt road, down a long lane edged with sumacs and willows.
But plenty of non-locals have discovered this unique plant nursery, situated on 68 acres south of town.
``People from Japan have found us. The Countess Zeppelin from Germany has found us,'' says Bob Stewart, who owns the plant nursery with his wife, Brigitta.
Another visitor was writer Jamaica Kincaid, a long-time mail order customer. While in Detroit to give a speech, Kincaid took a side trip to Fowlerville and Arrowhead Alpines and wrote about it last ...