Do you live in So Calif? This place is in East LA and has everything Mexico. It even looks, sounds and smells just like Mexico. It's a 3 story building with lots of shops, a grocery store, restaurants and mariachis .The prices are very good. They probably have what you're looking for. If you're not nearby, there may be places like this near you. You have to hunt for them. Most probably don't have websites. You may want to go to yard sales in Latino neighborhoods. and don't forget to tell everyone you know what you want so they'll be on the lookout too. Some nurseries carry this stuff, and HD or Lowes may have it off and on. Linda Here is a link that might be useful: Mercadito- East Los Angeles

Syb, The last time I was in Santa Barbara, I visited a garden shop that sounded much like what you described: "unique & antique artifacts, local craftsmen items, and combine that with plant offerings, pots, bird & bee houses, water gardens." Nice unusual specimen plants in unique pots outdoors, and lots of handmade and salvaged big garden furniture, fountains, and ornaments inside. It did not have a wildlife/organic focus or a big demo garden, though, or if it did I missed it. It's called Eye of Day, located next to a hotel in Carpinteria. I think the best part of it was the one-of-a-kind benches and other furniture created from interesting blocks of wood and stone -- very sculptural. But to have a store like that, you need enough customers that can afford it, so SB was a good location. Or you can host lots of workshops and get a lot of traffic and some income that way -- a reason for people to go out of their way to visit you, if you are out of the way, and as long as they are there they will browse and maybe buy. Search terms that may help find more of these are "garden boutique" and "garden gallery." Here in the SF bay area, I don't know of anything similar, but we do have quite a few artists who incorporate their artwork into gardens, for example -- * http://www.conversations.org/cevan.htm * Marcia Donohue in Berkeley * a garden sculpture gallery * an artifact/recycle warehouse focusing on garden art -- and also some nurseries that have wonderful display gardens and events -- * Annie's Annuals -- and there is a store called Wild Bird that focuses on attracting birds. -- and at least one of the local landscape designers who focuses on native plants also puts artwork into the gardens that features native-plant themes (urns decorated with mosaics picturing wildflowers, benches made from massive manzanita trunks, fountains in the shape of acorns, etc): Middlebrook Gardens. -- and some independent nurseries feature sculpture and hand-crafted items. So maybe it would be useful for you to go through the process of writing a business plan, or at least the part that defines the competition and what you would offer that is unique or compelling. (My fantasy business would feature a bookstore of used and new garden books, a compost demonstration area, a huge demonstration garden featuring natives, edibles, and herbs, and regular workshops in organic gardening, vegan cooking, botanical medicine, ecological design, and individual plants [would anyone else be interested in an hour seminar on kale?].)

Yeah, that either got hit with something in that one spot, or it fell onto something. With the price of TVs nowadays, it would be pretty cheap to find a used one locally (Craigslist etc.) most places compared to shipping, if the packing is actually done right. Speaking of Craigslist, there are people around who collect these broken ones and fix them up. So rather than toss it, you might consider offering it in the FREE section. Someone might be able to cobble up a working set with it.

It has a septic with two leach pipes that run about 80 feet down the front yard. Health inspector approved it but I am not gushing with confidence. I replaced the main old ceramic, broken in many places and full of clay pipe that went from old house to septic tank. Like I said it was all broken and basically clogged with clay. So I suspect the drainage pipes are as well. As he was probing with his aluminum poker looking for leach field I heard him crush/break it in one spot. Im keeping my fingers crossed. Just out of site on the left of pic is a shed over a cistern. This will be the source of water for my (hopefully solar powered pump) stream/koi pond that will run down left side of front yard. As far as the sun in the area of original pic, this area is in the top of the bottom picture in this post. So it does get some sun and you can see it isnt loaded with huge shade trees. https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5358114/picea-orientalis-spring-frost-full-sun-or-part-shade#n=4