lately so i had gotten interested in orchids so that they was kind of like a hobby and like a hobby gone wild and we both had different jobs and about seven years ago the jobs finished and someone had come to us at the farmer's market and said we have this little space why don't you think about opening up a store and we said no we're going to have a store and you know it just kind of happened so being an historic burned square we're kind of under the radar we're off of main street so we're kind of sleepy little area a lot of people find us because they're going to the movie theater and on the way they kind of see the store we don't advertise so a lot of it's always were by my word of mouth and so when you come to the store on the outside what you see is you see a lot of different plants you see are hanging orchids and a lot of the plants that we carry we do a lot of croutons a lot of are merely adds a lot of big succulents that kind of thing so we have a nice assortment of outdoor type of things for people with patios or homes or lanai and then when you come into the store you probably get the full just we have tons of or fresh they've got great count if they've been here too long we scarf him up and we put them on sale at the farmer's market so other people are really happy there so when they come in they're probably overwhelmed with the amount of work is that we have a lot of the time and then takes them usually a while to realize that we have a lot of a huge variety of pots i mean that's probably the major comment that we get that we have such a variety of really nice containers for people to work at because a lot of times you go to garden store and it's just some kind of version of a a chair or caught up more of an outdoor thing so we had we carry a huge line of pots and then we have a lot of accessories a lot of beautiful accessories we really try to get american made type of products we really to have a relationship with the with the lines that we carry the people we only carry one kind of fragrance line we carry one kind of two kinds of cards was card and paper goods but we in and a few jewelry vendors but we love the people and we really have a great relationship with them everything has to have a but tannic all inspiration otherwise it doesn't come into the store so people are usually surprised at what they find in here we sell small amounts of furniture we've got lamp success stories all that kind of thing we've got a great loyal group of customers we have a a really loyal local following that's year round we have a fabulous seasonal group of people i kind of think of us sometimes like like your butcher or your baker because people have to come in for fresh orchids every couple of months so we always see our customers so you really get to know them so it's not like a store where you come in for you know like you visit once and you go it's really nice but you don't go back so this people always come back and we really really get to know our people i've known you know we are the most wonderful customers on the farmers market our have really turned out to be best friends i like orchids because they are very long lasting and they're tough everyone thinks that they're just like delicate you have to be really careful but truly in florida you can grow most of them outdoors benign neglect is what it's all about where you're not babying them you're not watering them all the time they like to almost dry out between waterings and then they like to get like a rain forest watering so you know they're they're way tougher than people think and usually the kinds of workers that we bring in and you can read bloom them here in florida so most people are really excited when they re bloom their orchids a lot of people you know don't necessarily want to wait that long because a lot of them are only once or twice a year blooms but in general if you want to put them outside and you've got the right location with some good air circulation and that's a that's a tough job and you're always depending on a lot of other people to bring things together and it's just like construction is pounding especially when the economy was really going and there was a lot of pressure and we like a second career that just been the best and we all fit our nation really well so you don't have to do everything but together we all really enjoy what we do