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Now, you're not there every day. There now? No, I just went. So it's how you, like semi-retired that I work every day? Yeah. Just doing a show. But you work for you. But cameraman But lots of times. Yeah, you've got time. So I'd like to say it's it's really neat the way you all come out there and sit there within a couple of minutes sometimes before you even do it. Sometimes just coming to talk about like, do the blizzard. You all were like in reacting a lot. Yeah. I mean, that's really to me, I feel like there's very little scripting done on it. No, it's all additive. Your name? Garland Williams. And your first name is Garland. God given. Why my mom. And my mom's turned her radio down. Please. You can turn it off now. Thank you. Things like that. But we tape in radio. Thanks, Claire. All right. Once again, your name is Garland Williams. So when he decided to name this place, he just called it my namesake here. Well, of course not that names. They call the Garland where you. You were born and raised in Irvington. Yes, I was. And not too much grass in that neighborhood, Especially not in our yard. My mom was two brothers or three of us all year apart. So three big young boys, you know, in a small old piece of dirt didn't last very long. And my mother concreted the whole backyard to make it a little more, actually for playing with our toys and stuff. When did you get the idea that you wanted to be in the floral business? Well, I actually we lived in England for a year. When I was 16, my family went over.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822#t=5.69,115.98"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822/transcript/71673/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My dad worked at Westinghouse. We lived in a big house and a whole lot of gardens. When we came back, my mom said, No more row house. We moved to Catonsville and we had three acres and all these rabbit hutches and piles of old manure, and we composted all this manure and made a big compost pile and then plant it. And I was on my way. Well, what did you learn about composting? I just been interested in it. And of course, my grandfather always would every year, much to the chagrin of my neighbors, would bring home fresh manure every year from Cleveland Dairy and spread it on the rose bushes on the front lawn where we lived in Irvington. And so I guess I got a lovely knack for gardening from him in that aspect. So when you weren't when you came home from England after all those wonderful English gardens, your mom's decided that it was time for you boys to get your hands dirty. Well, she she she really didn't push us to it, but it was. I guess I definitely decided and started gardening and chicken manure, all this good stuff. We made big piles of it and composted it in and made. And I planted actually an acre by hand the first year and grew all these pumpkins and didn't know what to do with them. So I set up a little pumpkin stand in front of my house to grow it in Gainesville and one in beach field and one in Gainesville Junction and made $300 that year. The sweet place the little pumpkin stands and said, this is pretty good stuff. So you saw an opportunity where money could be made from this soil? Well, I think so, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822#t=116.65,202.47"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822/transcript/71673/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know if I had any real far reaching plan, but I certainly was enjoying it at that time. Gardening and making over money certainly was a fun part of it, too. So then you started selling flowers? Yes, I was selling well, actually, Christmas Trees was next because that was the next segment of the natural progression when you in a garden business. So I sold Christmas trees here at the site Where? At the day. No, I don't mean you. You you weren't in the business then when you were selling pumpkins, were you? No, no, the pumpkins was my first stab at it. I went. I grew those. All those vegetables. And then you sell corsages or something on Mother's Day. But we started that the following spring, of course, because I was sitting out here in the corner. Some had bouquets with flowers like you see, and people inside the road. And we we had cut flowers in them. And then at Easter, Mother's Day, we try and make a table some we want a corsage. I said, I can do that, you know, And we made a corsage and there it was. So it was all about trial by fire. But we certainly worked if somebody else to do it, we didn't say no. And you know, I would try it. And the more I tried and pax8, the better I got at it. When did you actually open up garlands or put a stand out on a corner? 1904. We always use 1970, the spring of 1972. And how old were you then? I was at that time 19. And so how many years after that was the pumpkins? Well, the pumpkins were first, actually. Right. So pumpkins were first when in 70.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822#t=202.71,288.51"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822/transcript/71673/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I see a graduate school at 17. Then I was 18 then. Okay. Actually was 71 then because I graduated 70 high school and I grew pumpkins a year. I was in high school, so my senior year I spent in Kate at Kate's old high school. And so what we had, we were living there. And so when I grew the pumpkins, it was spring summer of 70. And so 71 is when I had my first stand here in 1970. And that was as a result of not selling the pumpkins at my mother's house and in cages or in beach field. So how did this corner become available? Well, I kept it was a long job getting the landlord to give me permission to give him a few token dollars to rent it, to set up a stand at it like ten times going to his office. I guess perseverance paid off if I said, okay, young fella, you can go ahead and rent for Easter and weekends. And so that's how I got it. It was lucky, I guess, and perseverance. That really helped a lot. So you put a lot of work into the building? Yeah, well, the corner. The corner. Yeah, sure. It was a lot like, you know, a little roadside produce stand with the telephone poles and just anything we could salvage for free to make stands. And our little canvas, often all red truck I bought. And then it grew and grew and grew. Every year we added more and more things. Says People like what we had and you just kept adding more and more product. And just when you had it the way you thought, you always wanted it, what happened? Well, we had a severe fire that completely wiped out our whole store and put over 25 people out of work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822#t=289.74,377.78"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822/transcript/71673/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that the fires that was the day before Thanksgiving, early in the morning. And your station covered it several times. And what was great about that, as far as the aftermath that we had such great community response. And also Don Hutchison responded with the county support for getting an IRP so that the wheels were rolling with all the community support, as well as the political support to help get us an IRP and to help us refinance to build new at those times finances. If rates were like 18% after the fire, how long did it take you to reopen? Nine months later, we reopened. Actually, almost no is almost a year. Almost a year? A little over a year. We opened December 1st and our fire was November 23rd or so. So you built it bigger and better? Yep, we built it. Thank goodness. We built it bigger because we certainly grew into it. And then some. And now. And now we're a company with over 55 employees and of which probably 10 or 12 have been with us for over 15 years. And lots of, you know, forward growth in our different departments. And we're quite respected in the community and in say, as a, you know, first class quality business, garden center, plant kingdom. What's next? What's next is seeing what the consumer wants in the year 2000. There's a lot of changes going on. And as far as retailing, you know, it hasn't been good retailing for any any segment of the retail sales because of the the change in people's shopping habits. We certainly have been competitive, but it's certainly not as easy as it was when we were smaller. You know, mom has store now. We have a significant cost that we have to meet.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822#t=379.01,479.24"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822/transcript/71673/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so the difficult competition that we meet all the time. So we have to be much more businessmen and women as well as being more aware of the technology that's changing the way we do business here and the way we sell the P Very complicated. It is. And plants are so easy. Gosh, you're right. Spring is here finally. Yes, we got through another one. Well, it's going to come smarty about that T is what what brings your customers here at this time of the year. Well the customers always come the garlands we feel because of this, the people who work here first and foremost real friendly, professional help. Secondly, the quality and the selection. We have so many plants and there's so many different varieties that people can always satisfy where they want to sell unusual type of lettuce or snow pieces. Of course, all the spring gardening for lawn and garden mulching, composting, of course, the sprays, the fertilizers, there's now strawberry plants, your spring blooming annuals, perennials, of course, at our perennial apartment is significantly increasing every year too long. This time at this time of the year. I suppose people who are interested in gardening, they come here and pick up their supplies. Yes. And we and we have a lot of a lot of old customers who have been with us for since we started and a lot have been with us at ten, 15 years. And it's really great to see all our customers who are really a lot of our become our friends. So you can drive up and down the streets in Gainesville and this whole area. And if you see a garden, chances are it started off right here. That's right. Or at least part of it and hopefully a lot more of it as time goes on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822#t=479.6,579.68"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822/transcript/71673/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So what are what are what are your plans for the future? Well, my plans I'm I'm real happy that I have a newborn three week, three month old little boy. Jeremy and I have my three and a half year old, Amanda and my wife and I, we're teaching them the garden because they have a lot of fun and growing the business to be more successful as far as women. Don't do that. Please. Jace I'm sorry. Who's who's hammering? Asking that? Yeah, Just ask him to knock it off just for a second. All right, I'll start over. That. So you're raising something now besides flowers? Yes. And it's wonderful. It's a whole new adventure. And I just had a little blossom recently. I see a little Jeremy, who's who's three months old. And, of course, his big sister, Amanda has been a great big sister. So. And with my wife working at home, it helps a lot because, you know, she's home with the children. And it's so it's the schedules are there's no free time for hobbies, but it's of course they're wonderful to be with. And now that we're outside gardening, Amanda and I are fixing her first garden up and she enjoys that. And here at the store, you know, the number of people that we have, we're all ready for spring and we're all trying to make the store better and still have fun. I mean, we got to have fun in your garden. And that's what has kept us sane through all this crazy seasonal business because, you know, it goes crazy. I mean, there's no business at all. For 2 or 3 months and then bingo, where it's like a busy Sunday afternoon at a restaurant. I mean, we're just packed jam by now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822#t=581.57,669.24"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822/transcript/71673/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The weather's getting better. Are you guys ready for the. Are you ready? We're we're ready and we've been ready. And we certainly can't wait from the start coming in. And of course, weather this is the most fickle business because it is weather driven to two and a half weeks ago, that nice Sunday Saturday we had was, you know, 62 degrees. We were we had a great, busy two days and then cold weather came back. And since then, people have just started to come back in real slow because it's not fun to be outside for a lot of days. Is there anything new in in the seedling business? I mean, is there anything has science changed anything radically as far as a gardener who would like to grow maybe some tomatoes or cucumbers or some lettuce or cabbage, anything new? Well, you know, they keep some of this a lot of things have gone back to the old fashioned raises, tomatoes specifically. A lot people want those old fashioned heirloom varieties, which we sell about ten varieties of. But a lot of a lot of things. Now, as you know, the space saving vegetables, tomatoes are grown in a certain size that you can grow in a patio or grow in a small townhouse garden. The new hybrids of sweet peas or, you know, just just small improvements. But as far as taste and the amount of crop or food you get off of the plants is really significantly better. Same as the flowers. I mean, there's the shades of pansies out here are just that every year there's ten more shades of different colors and it's hard to believe that they can be that many different shades of color. But they hybridized and the tissue culture has really significantly changed then with the way flowers will be hybridized for the future.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822#t=669.45,760.89"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822/transcript/71673/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So even though even though families, husbands, wives, mothers, fathers are busy, much busier nowadays, they were in the old days raising a family, both working. There are still the plants have been improved where you can grow and get get a higher yield out of a smaller space. Yeah, you can grow the flowers in a smaller space, but they're just as beautiful because of the color. Sure. Because that's how it's working well there. But you know nothing. Nothing's better, though, to be out there working in the garden because that reward of getting your hands in the soil, planting those seeds the same way we planned them 500 years ago, we that's that's all still the same. And I think that's one of the laws of gardening that makes us all feel so good about it because we actually work physically in the soil. We plant that little seedling or seed, we nurture it and water it and fertilize, and then we see the results of our labor. And it's pretty we all become pretty proud mamas and papas, the people for these plants. And I think that's really why gardening stay strong and and as far as that'll never change it you know you get a little sore back when you first jump out in the springtime, but nobody tells me that same thing. You go way too long. Okay. Tell me that same thing in about 20s he said he said about getting out there in the soil. Got it. Well, you know, no matter how they improve the seeds in the plants, the biggest thing about gardening is you get out there and you physically get in the soil and make it right for the plants to grow. You nurture them, water them, and and you reap your results with flowers or you eat the tomatoes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822#t=762.3,855.12"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822/transcript/71673/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that's what gardening is all about. And people just every year, they don't mind the sore backs and the calluses. And we'll continue doing what we did for hundreds of years the same way, you know, So. Right. You reap you. So. That's right. The Bible is right. Yes, it is every day. Channel 23, page ten of 23. We're just going to add them here. And you have no script. Yes, here I am. Here I am. You want me to talk about candy? Well, we're just going to add some things. They're called blotches. This is a face. I like A face. Which you prefer. Is that right? Yeah. It's a lovely color. So deep. Right. Let's see. You take this home with you. No, thank you. We had the same thing in the picture. And come out on your home planet. Yeah. Yeah. I love this. I planted a whole garden up at the Archangel Senior center, and they all came back. Looks so good. Someone swiped them. Yeah. Nice. Nice screen. I like the yellow carpet. Those, I tell you. Sure. Next to those. Yes. Yes. It's going to be beautiful. Yes, indeed. Yes. Hungry? I tell you, my does that a little bit. Yes, yes, yes. I heard that the blue is the harvest. And I came back and my girls were blue. Hi, How are you? I think I know just fine. Is it pretty color? I'm sorry, but are these images color? Yes, there are six in here and they're on seven roses. Information. Wow. Last picture you did? Of course. Take off the diploma. Had you known how to do that? When they go to seed? I like to eat almost everything I do. You see, that's the seed in this place from the stigma and the style.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822#t=855.78,1002.24"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136812/file/253822/transcript/71673/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They have style. Boy, I tell you, something happened in the wind, right? You know what they really like? Nitrogen. I really like nitrogen wise. Yeah, I know. I like it. Yeah. Yes, Very, very healthy. So these are two. Let's see this scene here. Wouldn't it be better getting the second one is only about the end of civil battery. We don't have the 6 to 20 down there. A dollars 69. Now, for one, I'm alone for good. I maybe talk to you. Maybe I'll look for do. Of more than 40. All right. So we have to. Yeah, I. Like this. That's one thing. If you're only doing your farm and you're dealing. That's. I don't know. 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