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Richard Antony, an electrical engineer, and his wife Sandra, a former contract specialist and Montgomery County elementary school teacher, lived in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, but dreamed of living in the mountains.
In 1978 they purchased 26 acres on Long Mountain, in the Virginia foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains for their “retirement.”
Within a year, the industrious couple in their early 30s, decided that age 66 seemed too far off to realize their dreams. They hoped to have a family soon and wanted their children to be reared with the oldfashioned country ideals of hard work and close family ties.
After years of reading books on homesteading and home construction, Mr. and Mrs. Antony began considering a move to Long Mountain outside Washington, Va., sooner rather than later. But how would they make a living in rural Virginia?
Bill Barker, their close friend and neighbor, suggested that since they had just successfully propagated a few dozen azaleas to landscape their yard in Adelphi, Md., they could grow and sell azaleas.
At first the idea seemed rather far-fetched, but after several weeks of serious consideration, the couple decided that it sounded feasible.
The Antonys, who were avid gardeners, immediately began a small experimental nursery on their quarter-acre lot. They joined the azalea and rhododendron societies and Mr. Antony read a dozen books on the nursery industry. They wanted to learn the business of growing firsthand so that the inevitable mistakes could be made while their nursery was small.
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