The economic forecasts may not be rosy. But James Durr wasn't complaining this week as he checked a field of dazzling yellow blossoms in Chesterfield, Burlington County.
"We're a very big grower, and we're still selling our product," said the president of James Durr Wholesale Florist, the largest cut-flower producer in New Jersey. "You just have to be creative."
Across the Garden State, sales of floricultural crops – bedding and garden plants, as well as cut flowers – increased from $167 million in 2009 to $178 million last year, according to a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture survey of operations with $10,000 or more in business.
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