Judy Zugish is a woman in love. Yes, only someone truly smitten could spend hours in an unheated greenhouse on a particularly cold Northwest winter day with no hat or gloves talking about the glory of a single type of plant: a hardy cyclamen.
“Aren’t they incredible?” Zugish said, looking down at a sea of emerald green leaves and hot pink blooms with her longtime friend and business partner, Bill Roeder, who is equally lovesick over these particular perennials.
In the specialty nursery world, Zugish and Roeder are a rarity as hardy cyclamen growers at Bouquet Banque Nursery of Marysville, which Zugish has run since 1979 as a small farm and nursery.
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