Clarity Connect welcomes its newest client, Babes Blossoms to the Clarity Connect family! Their retail greenhouse was founded in 1996. They sell annual plants, vegetable plants, perennials, and shrubs, as well as a large assortment of potted containers and water plants for ponds and water features. Babes offers the old favorites as well as what is considered to be new and unusual.
The beginning was small; a single greenhouse assembled from used greenhouse loops and equipment. Today they have grown to their present size of three retail selling houses and seven growing houses.
This joint venture came to fruition after four of them, (Doug, Marie, Jim and Eileen) had spent some years sharing farming equipment and labor. While they did not have much actual green house experience; they did have individual areas of expertise that were needed to make Babe's Blossoms work. Marie is the head grower with the talent for making the plants and containers look beautiful. Doug is the maintenance, construction, and repair department. Jim with a degree in agronomy is the science department, along with doing construction and repair. Eileen does the marketing, and is responsible for telling the public about our beautiful plants.
For several years, Babes did both farming and "greenhousing." However, the main greenhouse season is also the main planting season for farming. As the greenhouse grew, the time for farming shrunk. A few years ago, the decision was made to concentrate on the greenhouse and discontinue farming. So, they now "farm" on a smaller, condensed scale.
