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This is a detailed look back over the past 25 years with a chronological running summary of people, events, projects, and important happenings as Welby Gardens reaches 75 years in the greenhouse business This history details the transition of leadership from the second generation to the third, the passing of the important Gerace family leaders. Also new programs such as Welby Gardens' involvement with Plant Select and demonstrating new partnerships forged by the third generation as the company expands into new endeavors such as young plant propagation with hardystarts. As the first generation establish the hard-working foundation of the family firm and corporate locality, the second were the builders and inventors, and now the third generation was determined to perfect the processes, to make new partnerships and to carry the company well beyond the boundary of the original Welby historic location. During this new period the scope and the complexity of the operation multiplied, adding new locations, increased production, increasing employment rolls from 50 to 400 full-time and part-time employees. Also confronting a 700- year drought and a very successful downsizing in 2019 and all the financial challenges that a successful family business faces year in and year out.

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