Celebrities such as Harrison Ford and Barbra Streisand have ordered from Green Valley Growers. Oprah Winfrey had Bolduan make a special tree for her own home with natural ornaments he made himself.
For someone who grows for the high-end cut-flower trade, Jerry Bolduan doesn't make his own job easy. He doesn't grow in fields or rows. His boutique farm is really a series of informal gardens artfully spreading out in bursts of color and nuances of texture around his own home. His studio for making flower arrangements is his garage.
“Everything has to be done by hand. It's the way Martha would do her own garden,” he said. “Business-wise, it's not smart at all.”
It was just a driveway and apple trees when Bolduan and his late partner, Peter Cerda, a landscaper, bought the property and began collaborating on an informal garden in 1986. Cerda died 21 years ago, but Bolduan continued to develop what they started.
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