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Source: NURSERY MAG, JULY 2019
More than a decade before Tony Avent opened Plant Delights Nursery in 1988, he’d found a kindred spirit in J.C. Raulston at North Carolina State University. Tony started as a student of horticulture there the same year J.C. became a professor and researcher, charged with starting a university arboretum. Tony’s college professor eventually became his mentor, collaborator and friend when immediately after graduation he landed a job at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.
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