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Updated: 7:30 PM Jun 7, 2007
Palm Trees in Wisconsin?
A local man is getting adventurous in the greenhouse, growing more than 80 plants you won't find in Wisconsin very often. Posted: 6:26 PM Jun 7, 2007Reporter: Lindsay Veremis Email Address: lindsay.veremis@weau.com |
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One local man is getting adventurous in the greenhouse, collecting more than 80 plants you won't find in Wisconsin very often.
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But, for Jeff Herdrich, owner of the Flower Farm in Eau Claire, it's not just a hobby, it's a full time relationship.
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Herdrich refers to his unusual plants as pets and has spent the last 27 years gathering them.
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Each one has a special memory and space in his heart and his greenhouse, where he grows everything from a palm tree to a pineapple, right here in Western Wisconsin.
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"My favorite of the pets would be a staghorn fern and I'd have to tie that with a ponytail palm and those are two of the plants that we purchased the first year that we were married and we've had them since then, about 27 years," Herdrich said.
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He says many of his pets come from warmer climates and he enjoys experimenting with them to figure out what will grow heartily here.
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