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herb shop. Sherrie has widened her knowledge through independent research and practical experience to the point where she’s now recognized as an expert herself, lecturing and giving demonstrations at nearby colleges and tourist attractions such as Sully Plantation in Loudoun County.
Her shop on the village main street smells of lavender, rose and geranium potpourries. In the back room, her staff of artists assemble the dried herb and flower decorations for the bonnets that have become Faith Mountain’s trademark. At the rear of the rambling white frame house, trays of herbs thrive on a greenhouse porch and in the backyard garden, seedlings poke their way up to the sun.
“They’re slow this year,” she complained of the hardy herb perennials growing on the hillside. Sherrie attributed their delayed appearance to the long winter of 1983-84. “Usually, the shelves (in the greenhouse) are full by this time and the plants in the garden are four or five inches high. But I guess they know what they’re doing! With that snow last week, they’d be in trouble.”
Now that she’s expanded her business to include a computerized mail order catalogue branch, Sherrie must buy the bulk of her herbs from other area gardeners. But the hill side behind the shop is still covered with plants; her own garden just doesn’t produce the volume to fill the orders that come in every day. However, she’s still the expert and growing the herbs is still her favorite part of Faith Mountain’s op-t eration.
Sun Fanciers
According to Sherrie, the first consideration in starting a herb garden is choosing a sunny, well drained spot. “They don’t
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