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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Kearney Hub - Childhood interest in plants has bloomed into African violet basement business, horticulture studies, hopes for expansion

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LOOMIS — Much like the African violets she grows, Jenny Freed spent the past 10 years adding new leaves to her plant-growing experience and has grown a blooming business.

Freed, who bought her first African violet when she was in third grade, runs her business, Violets and More, from the basement of her parents’ home north of Loomis. The 19-year-old has been cultivating African violets to sell at craft shows and to florists and greenhouses since she bought the business from Sharolyn Moss of Grand Island in March 2005.

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