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Paul
Craft moved to Florida in 1974 to get away from the cold dreary
winters in Cleveland, Ohio. With little work available in chemistry,
Paul found himself becoming self employed, starting a retail nursery
and landscaping business. Those eventually grew along with a landscape
design enterprise in Palm Beach County. Eventually, palms and cycads
became the main focus of the nursery but in 1999, Paul sold off the
nursery to devote more time to writing and traveling in search of more
information about palms. To pay for his addiction, Paul became a horticultural
consultant and before long became the head horticulturist for D’Asign
Source.
In his spare time, Paul still seems to end up playing with plants and
palms in particular. He is the current president of the International
Palm Society, has co-authored a book titled An Encyclopedia of Cultivated
Palms, and is currently working on two other palm books.
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Franco D'Ascanio got his passion for palms from his
father at an early age. Born and raised in the Florida Keys, his knowledge
of the plants that thrive in the area blossomed. He opened his first
nursery in 1993 on a quarter-acre parcel of land. This business grew faster than a coconut palm! Today, D'Asign Source Botanicals features more than 20,000 plants on 20 acres. D'Asign Source
Botanicals is a significant supplier to the landscape division of D'Asign
Source, a turn key design/build firm.
As President of D'Asign Source,
Franco manages the Outdoor Environment and Audio Visual departments.
D'Asign Source has won several prestigious awards for their landscape
design and architecture.
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Ray Mowen grew up in Palm Beach County where he got
his first taste of the nursery trade while working in the family nursery
and landscape business. After a stint in the Marines where he was in
Special Operations Units, Ray worked in retail and gained valuable experience
in customer service, sales, and management. Work in construction and
tree trimming rounded out his resume before finding himself at D’Asign
Source Botanicals. As production manager, he makes sure the plants grown
are of the highest quality while constantly becoming more knowledgeable
about all the plants DSB grows.
In his off time, Ray enjoys skydiving and is reacquainting himself with
scuba diving under the instruction of Keith.
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D'Asign Source Botanicals
3221 D Road
Loxahatchee Florida 33470
Phone: 561.333.6889
Fax: 561.333.4759
dsb1@bellsouth.net
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