Good luck with your move to R.I. I am a southerner - born, reared, and hopefully will die here. I took a chance and married a wonderful gal who was born and reared in California. We celebrated our 40th anniversary in February so it looks like the the chance I took worked out well. I treated myself by spending my 69th BD in Ireland with wife, family and friends.
My expertise, if you can call it that, is with topical plants, but only a dozen or so species. I retired two years ago at the age of 67 (I had hoped to work until 70, but my hands went bad and a dentist with bad hands has no reason treating patients!). Since I have always had a knack growing plants, and an interest in exotic tropical plants, I decided to start a (tiny) cottage business that I have named "Tropical Plants & More". Previously I simply gave away or threw away excess plants, but I thought selling them made more sense. I built a web site last fall, not knowing what in the heck I was doing, and haven't touched the site since. My site is more educational than an actual business site, and I can't even sell anything from the site itself. I need to have someone develop this for me but have been lazy doing so. I can get around the computer pretty well but know little about the brass and tacks of site development or other web sites to market my plants. I literally sell one plant at a time and am about to ship out a fiddleleaf ficus and a plumeria (two different buyers). I can only ship when the temp. is above 40 F, so my shipping days are drawing to a close until spring get here. Check out www.tropicalplantsandmore.com when you have time.
Ken Ramsey, Certified Mississippi Master Gardener
