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Aug 09
2010
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???Oh Boy! Crowley's Nursery! Ready for directions? Go east on Fruitville to the end, take a right. After a sharp corner take a left at dirt road ( look for Crowley signs) when you think your lost you're almost there. As I started down the nursery driveway I first ran into Warner (family worker and all around good guy) driving a old golf cart loaded with ancient tools that looked they could have been used to take out a tooth of a dinosaur. So Kool! Warner directed me to the parking area and he went to find Mr. Crowley. As I got out of my van it seemed like I made a wrong turn and ended up on the set of a Tarzan movie. Giant bamboo trees, tropical plants and fruit trees all neatly organized around a number of green houses. Charlie marched around his nursery showing me the meditation area by the creek, the wild hog trap, solar power set ups and his irrigation pond. Being the smart Yankee I am I made sure to stay about five steps behind in case a teradaxel or something like that was hungry. Moving through the green houses Charlie pointed out plants he has picked up around the world with names only my interpreter Mr. Toy could pronounce. Instead of taking the family to Disney for the day I highly recommend you save $200 and head to Crowley's to see Florida as it was a few hundred years ago. Buy a $50 plant that may have been grown on the side of a mountain in Pango Pango and call it one heck of a interesting day. Thanks for the tour Charlie-I'll be back!!!




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