Some people love working in the garden, mowing the lawn, raising vegetables, fruit trees, and gorgeous flowers, pouring over wholesale garden supplies catalogs, looking for special deals, bulk, cheap closeouts and all the rest. Others of us would rather do just about anything else but look for wholesale garden supplies. It's not a matter of "green thumbs" or "black thumbs" - a lot of us simply don't care what kind of thumbs Mother Nature gave us.
Nevertheless, there's a growing movement that says we should all be doing at least a bit of work with rakes, backhoes, and the like. With economic and environmental issues spurring them on, many occupants of houses all over the country - including the White House - are raising the equivalent of the World War II "victory garden." The motivations for this are several, ranging from the highly practical, to the idealistic, to the borderline hysterical.
Many inner city areas, for example, are well supplied with fast food and convenience stores, but may be miles from the nearest discount supermarket. Growing produce in backyards or community farms is one way of making sure that local residents have easy access to at least one source of fresh cheap wholesale garden supplies and vegetables. Others of these new kinds of gardening enthusiasts include "locavores" and sustainable food advocates, like followers of popular author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), who want to increase the quality of their food and reduce the carbon footprint of what their eating while saving money at wholesale pricing. At the more apocalyptic end of the scale, we have neo-survivalists, who think their gardens might provide a significant hedge against a coming ecological or economic calamity. (If you ask them how they expect to live on, say, tomatoes, avocados, and watercress alone, the blanket answer is always the same: "barter" and, sometimes, a hen.)
And, of course, some of us just like to raise plants, from petunias to flowering shrubs, from bougainvillea to cacti, from indoor ferns to miniature redwoods, fruit trees and numerous varieties of grasses. From those of us long to escape our desk bound existence and do "real work," to Thoreauvian transcendentalists who seek to grow closer to nature (whatever that means), to those who, like J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits of literature and film, associate wholesale gardening with comfort and nesting behavior, there are any number of enthusiasts whose bookshelves includes scores of books on cheap gardening, and where a resource for bulk wholesale garden supplies and closeouts might be at the top of their Internet site bookmarks.
Of course, the selection of plants varies greatly from region to region because of weather conditions, water supplies and the like. Thus cacti (called "succulents" by those in the know) make perfect sense for us here in the Southwest, where desert conditions obviously favor desert plants and where droughts constantly threaten that the days of cheap water in wholesale supply may not be eternal. Conversely, the East coast, with its clearly delineated seasons, is a popular spot for seasonal plants, while more water loving plants like delphiniums and hollyhocks are popular choices in the moist regions, while tropical plants go well with the American South's warm and moist quasi-tropical climate.
The motivations for why people garden may somewhat evolve over time, the truth is that the practice is never going away, no matter what twists and turns history may take us on over the coming decades. People simply like to do it - whether or not it will help save the planet, the economy, or their lives. And even those of us who hate to garden still like eating the freshest possible fruits and vegetables and looking at a lovely garden. So, whether or not your garden is for a higher cause, for your own pleasure, or simply to keep the neighbors off your back, you might as well get busy figuring out where to buy wholesale garden supplies and learn to love working in your yard. It's not going anywhere.
This article has been written by Marc Joseph. An expert in finding good deals, Marc Joseph has also written articles on how to save money by buying items in bulk, which includes wholesale garden supplies.
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