Nursing needed badly...for Nurseries

Nurseries struggle with lagging economy - Yahoo! Finance: "Florida, which produces 80 percent of the house plants grown in the United States, had about $844 million in sales of nursery stock in 2007 -- the last year figures were available. California, the second-largest producer, reported $1.6 billion in nursery stock sales in 2007.

Both states did not have more recent figures, but officials said they had seen a decline in business. They expect the industry to slowly recover -- but they also expect the belt-tightening will remain, with fewer purchases, less expansion and fewer employees."