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Jan B.

More About Jan

Jan’s many hats:

Jan has been part of Rush Creek Growers for more than twenty years. She is our trucking/shipping coordinator, organizing how the staff pulls orders and does the shipping paper work, so that the office can accurately invoice customers. She loads trucks and does deliveries. Jan  operates the transplanting machine, enters the transplanting data into our inventory program and keeps the transplanting line moving along. She is part of the team keeping track of hard goods and organizing the warehouse. She is also a dog wrangler, pallet pusher, construction worker and Mathematician.

The 2025 Staff story prompt was how do you use, (work with) plants?  Here is Jan's response:

How do I use plants?

I use plants, of course, in many ways. At present, one of my favorite aspects of gardening relates to olfactory sensations, specifically the outrageous and heavenly scents emanating from my very large mass of Brugmansias. Over the years I’ve acquired a half dozen plants that I chop back at the end of the season and overwinter in my basement. In the spring most of them get planted in the ground in a large circular garden near my deck in the backyard. Getting this sort of head start means that by mid-summer my Brugmansias are over my head and fill a space the size of a small room. As I write this, it’s early September, and the plants are absolutely covered in trumpets of yellow, peach, white and pink. It’s a spectacular display that defies adequate description, but even beyond that, it smells amazing! I don’t know how to best describe the scent, but it has tropical elements, a certain sweetness, and faint notes of citrus. Perhaps a bit like jasmine. One of the things I find particularly magical about it is that the fragrance is most prominent in the evening. After a day of work, or play, there is nothing more relaxing and intoxicating than sitting in a comfy chair on my deck as dusk is coming on and soaking in that sensory splendor. (A nice cocktail doesn’t hurt, either.)