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and there was a community college with a … I said, I’m just going to move away from here,’”
landscaping program. I wanted to study that, and she says.
I really loved it.”
Looking at new opportunities, she purchased a
Her next step was beginning a plant nursery. florist business in Lugoff but later relocated her
shop to Downtown Camden.
“That’s how I got into plants. I just bought a little
property to use as a nursery and that was just Life is calmer here than Florida, she says. Coming
heaven for me. I wanted a property where I could to Camden reminds her of home, and her residence
grow things. They have orchids galore down in now is a charming renovated cottage here.
Florida.”
“People have been very kind. This is a nice, quiet
Owning a nursery in south Florida was not without community,” Poulton says of the place she now calls
challenges. “The nursery got hit by two hurricanes, home. “My heritage is from the south, so this is kind
knocking everything down. And the traffic in Miami of full circle.”

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