Goodbye Stocks, Hello Exotics
If you visit Worldwide Exotics Nursery in Lakeview Terrace, I promise that you will encounter numerous plants that you have never seen before and will probably never see again, unless you take...
Category Archives: Personalities
A Luddite’s Paradise
Loren Zeldin doesn’t have a computer or a cell phone or even a camera. But he does have a garden, which is the focus of his...
90 Year Old Grows Abundant Tomato Crops
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.” These words of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the famous author, came to mind durin...
Gary Hammer’s Non-Stop Nursery
Gary Hammer’s dream was to open a nursery, and now that he’s done it, he has no time to be sentimental about it. Hammer says he works “from dawn to dusk, seven days a week. ”...
Cain was a Farmer with a Big Ego
Even before he killed Abel, Cain was in trouble. Cain was a farmer – which was admirable, of course – but he was arrogant. Cain thought he alone was responsible for the growth of his crop...
Professional Gardeners Have Little Time to Garden
There is a person – other than your spouse – with whom you have a love- hate relationship. He comes to your house, apartment building or condominium complex once a week. He makes noise. H...
The Man With Flower Power
Ted Howard is a man with flower power. His limitless energy appears to be derived from the flowers that surround him. The focus of his life is planting flowers, and he is the only person in the Valle...
Jurassic Garden of Cycads
It was in 1989 that Maurice Levin, who was visiting Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands, noticed the uniqueness of cycads for the first time. He asked his guide about them and learned that these 100-mil...
Loren Zeldin is Attached to his Garden
Loren Zeldin has lived in the same house in Reseda for all of his 43 years. As time passes, the possibility of his moving somewhere else becomes increasingly remote. The reason for this has to do wit...
Loren Zeldin’s Garden
Loren Zeldin does not own a computer. “I would rather be in the garden in the sun than cramped up indoors in front of a little screen,” he said. Actually, Zeldin has nothing against compu...
