Commercial Plant Propagation

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Published August 15, 2019 at 3:31 PM EDT

Virginia Home Grown Host Peggy Singlemann talks with Tom Smallwood at Hanover Farms in Rockville, VA. This wholesale operation, now a part of Cross Creek Nursery, expanded from two Lord and Burnham greenhouses to 91 houses, plus acreage, and propagates multiple varieties of ground cover plants.

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