Description:
Landscape Adventure is an online, call-in florist and landscaping business located in Jamesport. Landscape Adventure is owned and operated by Jeanne Scott and is available for not only floral arrangements, but also for property maintenance, irrigations, walkways, and mowing. Scott recently closed Landscape Adventure’s storefront on Sound Avenue due in part to the fact that 80 percent of her floral orders in the last year came from online.
“We’ve changed our focus,” Scott said. “We want to help keep our customers’ homes beautiful.”
Landscape Adventure offers a variety of home delivery and home installation services, from installing pergolas to filling window boxes with flowers.
“Working around someone’s home is different than having customers into your store. You are on their turf and it has brought a whole new change to doing business. The trick is to listen and make it special for each individual’s personality and style with artistic passion,” Scott said.
History:
Jeanne Scott said she learned about floral design, greenhouse plants, nursery and — most of all — customer service when she worked in her uncle’s garden center as a child. After college she said she returned to start her life in business and went to horticultural college at night. Scott moved to the North Fork in 1977 and was given the unique opportunity to develop a garden center out of a farm, she said.
“The first year we built a greenhouse and ordered a thousand Christmas trees in a location where no one had ever sold trees. As it turned out, we advertised like crazy and sold out,” Scott said.
Times have changed, however.
“Back when we started, you only bought your plants, flowers and Christmas trees from garden centers and florists,” Scott said. “Now people can buy everything at any gas station, 7 Eleven or K-Mart.”
“Everything changes. Some things are for the best and some things are not so great, but change is constant,” Scott said. “I am happy now to do the things I still love to do and leave others to change the path for new and different concepts of garden centers.”
Contact:
Jeanne Scott-Landscape Adventure
(631)722-3313
landscapeadventure.net
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