US (PA): Winter lingers, slows Armstrong greenhouse operators
“It's definitely affected business,” said Robin Ford, co-owner of Ford's Flowers in West Kittanning. The nursery is open, but customer traffic is down from the numbers they usually get by late March.
Rows and rows of fragrant pansies in velvet purples, white, magenta and yellow fill a couple of greenhouses attached to Ford's Flowers along Butler Road. But several of their other greenhouses remain unheated to help reduce energy costs, at least until the spring planting season picks up. “You can only make so much money on a flower,” Ford said.
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