AA-2026-CEA767
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Somebody in the 1960s figured out that if you grow the flowers under glass on a schedule, you can sell red azaleas the same week you sell yellow chrysanthemums, regardless of what the actual seasons think about that arrangement. The wheelbarrow full of potting soil parked mid-aisle says the work never really stops for a photograph; it just pauses long enough to be taken.
This is not a garden. It is a production line dressed up as one, rows of identical plants raised to bloom on command for a market that wanted colour delivered on time. The scaffolding of rough lumber and the stacked clay pots along the back bench belong to a trade that ran on repetition, not romance, though the results photograph like romance every time.
Nobody posed for this picture. The grower's whole case was the flowers themselves, red and gold and white in tidy blocks, proof that the greenhouse was doing exactly what it was built to do.
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Commercial Greenhouse, Bedding Azaleas and Mums, 1960s. 1960–1969. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-CEA767. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/commercial-greenhouse-bedding-azaleas-and-mums-1960s.
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