Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunshine Farm and Gardens


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The result was keep. Yunshui 雲 水 09:12, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Sunshine Farm and Gardens

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Small, largely promotional article about a business. Article doesn't establish clear notability. Bitmapped (talk) 00:46, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 07:41, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 07:41, 19 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete: Highbeam shows a variety of brief mentions in local media articles, confirming this as a company going about its business, and Google Books also shows various mentions, but my searches are not finding the in-depth coverage needed for WP:NCORP. AllyD (talk) 07:47, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.

 THe book notes: "Sunshine Farm and Gardens (304-497-2208; www.sunfarm.com), 696 Glicks Rd. Reaching this place may test if you are a true explorer or not. After turning off a major highway, the roads you follow become increasingly more rural, to the point that the final approach is on a one-lane dirt road winding its way up to the 60 acres of mountaintop property. However, once here, it's a feast for the eyes and the mind of anyone who is even slightly interested in flowers and horticulture. Barry Glick has been cultivating and propagating many kinds of plants (more than 10,000) for more than three decades, with an emphasis on hellebores. Although the business caters to plant wholesalers, Mr. Glick invites the general public to visit his 24-acre show gardens, with something in blossom almost year-round. As I said, it's a feast for the eyes and something not to be missed. You need to call to make reservations and for directions—and to make sure someone will be there after you invest the time in getting there."  The book notes: "Now you have to ask yourself if it is worth driving 10 miles over unpaved, mountain single-lane to see acres of hellebores blooming in the snow. Barry Glick, who owns the mountaintop Sunshine Farm and Gardens in northern Greenbrier County, will assure you it is. But if you go, use caution on his driveway, a mile-long vertical shoot of mud and shale. A four-wheel-drive vehicle with high clearance is best. Glick's 68,000 outdoor hellebores bloom maroon, black, white, yellow, and pink from February through June. On sunny days you'll see his crew dabbing paintbrushes into the flowers, doing the work of the hummingbirds and the bees and creating new varieties of the nodding, poppylike flower. Besides the outdoor gardens, Glick nurtures four greenhouses of plants, almost 10,000 varieties of hellebores, cyclamen, primroses, anemones, and other species, some unknown to anyone else. Glick introduces them to the world through his wholesale business with nurseries around the globe. 'You might say I have an obsessive love of plants', he says."  The article notes: "Sunshine Farm and Gardens (Route 5G, Renick, W.Va. 24966, 304- 497-2208) is a cutting-edge source. Their 'Sunshine Selections' strain is also a relative bargain. This nursery hand pollinates 50,000 stock plants collected from top hybridizers in England, New Zealand, Australia, and Belgium. It's a tedious and labor-intensive process lasting through the plants' three-month bloom period. But it ensuresthat plants don't self- pollinate, which owner Barry Glick maintains can result in less desirable offspring. In mid-May, small drawstring bags are placed over the pregnant seed heads, creating an odd scene on the remote West Virginia mountain where he is the local economy's major employer. These are removed when the seeds are ready to harvest in early July. The seeds are then cleaned and sown in an environmentally controlled space until they germinate the following January. Although its business is mostly wholesale, Sunshine Farm will sell single year-old hellebores that will bloom in another two years to retail customers for $3 apiece plus shipping. They are not categorized by color, but sample photos can be viewed at the Web site: www.sunfarm.com. [Information from Glick]"  The article notes: "Sunshine Farm and Gardens, an internationally known 60-acre plant nursery, garden center and arboretum near Renick, recently concluded negotiations with Tam & Associates to provide landscape material for several locations in China. The West Virginia-bred and grown plants will be used in the landscaping of several Olympic venues in the 2022 Winter Olympics, as well as for another commercial project in Liaoning Province. The plants will be shipped to China this winter and grown to maturity at several Chinese nurseries." <li> The article notes: "Much of the credit for this bonanza is due to Barry Glick, impresario of Sunshine Farm and Gardens in Renick, W.Va., where six of his 60-acre hillside gardens are devoted exclusively to hellebores. If you're fortunately enough to visit in mid-March when bloom is at its peak, you'll see more than 60,000 mature hellebores all in blossom. Sensational! ... The display gardens at Sunshine Farm and Gardens were completely redesigned by Matthew Bishop of Devon, England, in 1993, and several thousand new plants were planted in the then-24-year-old garden. Visitors are welcome with advance notice, but if you can't visit, photographs taken by the world famous photographer, Mark Turner of Turner Photographics, make up several self-guided tours that have become enormously popular with gardeners. Pictures include exquisite close-ups of individual blossoms plus sweeping views of the display gardens. With a state-of-the-art tissue culture laboratory, Sunshine Farm and Gardens is involved in experimental genetics on plant material, the goal of which is to develop new and better plants for landscape and the garden. The commercial arm of the operation provides high-quality unusual plants at reasonable prices to garden centers, nurseries, landscape professionals - and home gardeners (that's you, dear readers, and me) worldwide. So we should order by mail or phone."</li> <li> The abstract of the article notes: "Presents an article about a trip at Sunshine Farm and Gardens owned by Barry Glick in West Virginia. Background of Glick; Features of the garden; Information on ornamental plants in the garden."</li> <li> The article notes: "Hidden beneath oak trees in the mountains of West Virginia is a hillside garden that grew from one man’s passion for hellebores, or Lenten roses. He has grown a staggering collection of them—more than 100,000—and knows each plant on his 60-acre nursery like an old friend. “They’re kinda like snowflakes,” he explains. “Each bloom is unique.” He is Barry Glick, owner of Sunshine Farm and Gardens in Renick. Barry specializes in breeding double hellebores, but he grows all kinds. His collection is the largest in the South, hands down."</li> <li> The article notes: "Barry Glick arrived in Greenbrier County from Philadelphia 38 years ago intending to grow hostas and daylilies to sell. When deer ravaged his first attempts, he turned to hellebores, a lovely spring-blooming plant that has done so well, Glick's Sunshine Farm and Gardens now is one of the largest growers in the country. He hand-pollinates new varieties in his four greenhouses."</li> <li> The article notes: "Sunshine Farm earns patent The U.S. Patent Office has awarded Sunshine Farm and Gardens a plant patent for its hardy perennial poinsettia Euphorbia Jessie. The plant is the first known interspecific Euphorbia hybrid, a cross between E. griffithii and E. polychrome. Sunshine Farm and Gardens is a 36-year-old arboretum, plant nursery and botanical garden in Renick, Greenbrier County. Visit www.sunfarm.com."</li> <li> The article is 1,492 words long. The article notes: "A few weeks ago, a friend and I decided to finally go see Barry Glick. He is someone I had been hearing stories about for years. A photographer, hot tub manufacturer and plantsman extraordinaire, Glick, his wife and two children live in a pristine part of the Greenbrier Valley, up a steep and rutted road outside of Renick. The day we made our trip was one of the few beautiful days we had in March. We drove past farm fields and stately old houses, by cattle and horses, beaver dams and rushing streams. At long last, we came to the road that leads up to Sunshine Farm and Gardens. We took one look at the slope, the mud and the rocks, and decided to park the car and walk. ... Sunshine Farm and Gardens, by the way, is listed in the International Directory of Botanic Gardens. Several years ago, Glick started the North American Plant Preservation Council, devoted to cataloging cultivated plant collections in private gardens, like his own hellebore, peony and daffodil collections. Glick also wants to see the rare plants in these collections propagated and planted in other geographic areas, so if there is some natural disaster in an area, the plants won't be lost forever."</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Sunshine Farm and Gardens to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 09:24, 23 September 2018 (UTC) </li></ul>

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 * Comment about promotion: This is the article's text: "Sunshine Farm and Gardens (60 acres) is a commercial garden and wholesale nursery located at 3000 ft altitude near Falling Spring / Renick, West Virginia. It is open to the public by prior reservation. The gardens contain over 10,000 different varieties of perennials, bulbs, trees and shrubs. Its main focus is on breeding new varieties of the genus Helleborus, with 6 acre of farmland devoted to more than 68,000 hellebores." I reviewed the article. I do not consider the article to be promotional. Cunard (talk) 09:24, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 01:23, 26 September 2018 (UTC) <div class="xfd_relist" style="border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 25px;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep Sources detailed by Cunard are sufficient enough. Orientls (talk) 07:05, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kpg  jhp  jm  01:57, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep, per Cunard. It seems like a public attraction, consider the deep thoughts of essay wp:ITSAPUBLICATTRACTION. --Doncram (talk) 00:54, 10 October 2018 (UTC)


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