He liked that the business was focused on being a plant nursery, leaving landscaping to customers and professional installers.
“(Landscaping is) not what I am passionate about,” Volz said. “Neal really focused on having variety. Lots and lots of different varieties and different plants. I like that.”
Adam Volz checks on young trees put out for sale beneath flowering crabapple trees Thursday, May 13, 2021, at Sheyenne Gardens in Harwood, N.D. (Helmut Schmidt / The Forum)
Between 2000 and 2020, Volz spent about 18 months away from Sheyenne Gardens checking out other nurseries in Minnesota as possible business opportunities.
“I was planning on taking Neal’s business model of lots of variety along with me. I thought it was a smart business model for a bigger community,” he said.
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