AVON — Jane Merdan grows a small patch of lavender, a blackberry bush, and rows of lush blooms for her bouquets inside a greenhouse-like high tunnel.
Outside, on her 1-acre flower farm near Avon, lilies rise thigh-high in orange, yellow and pink.
Merdan, 67, learned to cultivate and arrange cut flowers through trial and error, she said. Her summer flower subscriptions have grown from three to about 20 in her 10-plus years of business. And she sells flowers for the occasional wedding.
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