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Our staff consists of a small group of dedicated enthusiasts who care a great deal about growing great plants! Their backgrounds and interests may be varied, but their commitment to excellence and passion for what they do is not!
JASON AUSTIN, Greenhouse Manager, is a graduate of Delaware Valley College with a BS in Ornamental Horticulture. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of native plants and perennials. One of his passions is carnivorous plants, and we have added a wide selection of these unique plants. He lives at the beach so he can surf at 5 am and still make the nursery at 8 am. ANNE HAINES, Manager, She a BS in Horticulture from Rutgers and an MS in Entomology from the University of Florida. She has worked for several nurseries including Princeton Nurseries, and ran her own horticultural book company, The Book Tree. She is both our "Shipping Diva" (we shipped over 8,000 packages last year!) and our "Inventory Goddess" - no small job when you consider we carry 2,500 plants in multiple sizes. With excellent plant knowledge, she also helps in sales, and is an expert on the many woody plants we carry. KATHERINE "Kitty" HLUBIK joined us "part time" this year. She has a BS in Plant Science from the University of DE. She and her husband own Backacres Farms, a 1500 acre grain farming operation. She works in both the office and the nursery and has become a very valuable asset, working on our records, taking inventories, picking orders, sales and helping with the catalog. IRVING "Irv" J. PAULUS, Manager, He joined us four years ago as our office administrator and comptroller. He manages our books and keeps us up to date on all those things that the rest of us hate to do -we would rather be doing plant stuff. Irv is a retired executive with a BS in Economics from Wheeling, and an MBA in Marketing from FDU, whose plant knowledge is still growing. He has eased our organizational growing pains by expertly keeping our office procedures current -for example, he made us get rid of the shoe box in which we kept the accounts, and moved it to QuickBooks!!! RON RABIDEAU, Manager, has a BS in Plant and Soil Science from the University of Massachusetts, and has participated in four plant and seed collection expeditions: China (Spring, 2000), Tibet (2002), Arunachal Pradesh, India (2005), and the Altai Mountains, Siberia (2007). A rhododendron and daylily hybridizer since 1987, and member of the American Rhododendron Society, Ron puts his passion for new plants to work seeking out new and noteworthy plants. A. WILLIAM "Bill" SMITH, joined us "part-time" five years ago. His experience in the "University of Life" is very diverse, including a teaching degree in English and History from Glassboro State College. He operated Rainforest Orchids for 25 years, and was a national orchid judge. Bill collects a broad range of plants, including bamboo, daylilies, magnolias, Japanese maples and witch hazels. He is a key sales person, helps keep our inventory up-to-date and is now our chief seed grower. JERRY VAN DE SANDE, Propagator, has been a rhododendron grower and propagator for many years. He holds a BA in English from Rutgers, and taught for over 30 years. His retirement "job" is with RareFind where he does much of the propagation and runs seminars on the subject. K-9 COMPANIONS: Hank's daughters never met a dog or cat they didn't want to rescue. Over the years we have had five dogs and four cats in the "rescued" category. We are now down to two dogs, Inga and Gretchen, who take offense at the thought of a deer jumping the fence. After 10 years we have not had a deer track on the property. The dogs are kept penned when visitors are here, but at night they earn their keep by roaming our 11-acre, electricfenced property to insure that deer stay on the other side. When we hired Anne Haines we also hired her strange looking little dog "Mo" (also a rescue). Mo faithfully (obsessively?) follows Anne everywhere, and we've even caught her packing plants for shipment! We can't forget Eli, Jason's black Pug who is guilty of "terminal cuteness." He loves strutting around as a barn dog two days a week. |