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His wife laughed. “Just the other day I told Richard that we might as well be in the fast lane. Country living is supposed to be slow-paced.”
Long Mountain Nursery grows azaleas in containers, which means that transplanting into larger containers is a continuing chore.
To help with this time-consuming work each year, Mr. Antony and his grandfather designed what he calls a “Rube Goldberg device” for transplanting.
There’s a conveyor belt that moves the pots along, as a drum mixes sand, pine bark and peat moss and drops the right amount into each pot. By mechanical means, a hole is made for each plant and fertilizer is added.
Working for most of one day, they can pot between 1,000 and 1,500 azaleas, Mr. Antony estimates. They have a full-time employee, Ernie Fletcher Jr., who helps in every phase of the nursery operation.
“And Chris has been helping since he was 2‘/2,” said Mrs. Antony.
The nursery grows azaleas not commonly available in retail garden stores — bi-colored plants and deciduous as well as evergreen azaleas.
Eventually, the Antonys want to add other native plants to their selection.
Although they usually sell only to garden supply houses, they will be open to the public for the first time this spring.
Long Mountain Nursery is on the Tiger Valley Road, three miles from Washington up a steep gravel drive marked with a sign.
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