Bring 'Em Back-ology

摘要

Reading some of my previous articles for N&GC (no, that wasn't an order) gives the impression that the retail garden business in the USA is always affected by the weather somewhere. This year proved to be the exception to that rule; the business wasaffected everywhere. Customer count or 'footfall' was down everywhere even compared to the poor years of 2002 and 2001. In fact the national garden business has not had a good spring in terms of weather since 2000, so many realists are comparing their yearly results with that spring not last year's.