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		<title>Meet Constance Cleveland, the Jill-of-all-Trades at Behnkes of Potomac</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You could run into Constance anywhere in our  Potomac store because she works in all departments, as needed, which for her helps keep the job interesting.  &#8220;Never a dull day,&#8221; and all that. Life before Behnkes Unlike her co-workers (Alex, Orion and Christopher) Constance is anything BUT locally grown.  Her dad was a Foreign Service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Lewis, our Garden Shop Manager in Potomac</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A familiar face to Potomac shoppers is Christopher Lewis, manager of the garden shop where everyone is buying bulbs and lawn fertilizer this time of year and tools and assorted garden solutions throughout the year. Origins Farm boy here!  Christopher grew up on a farm in Howard County, and went off to Susquehanna University in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Potomac&#8217;s Orion Taylor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Potomac shoppers, meet your expert in shrubs and trees.  He&#8217;s Orion &#8211; like the constellation &#8211; Taylor. Orion could hardly be more of a local guy, having grown up in and around College Park, and he always knew he wanted to work outside.  Park Ranger sounded good to him, but gardening called in the form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Larry, the Affordable In-Garden Advisor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening How-To]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Susan Harris Did you know that Behnkes has in-your-garden advisors, also known as gardening coaches?  I&#8217;ve been doing garden coaching myself for six years now and I&#8217;ll boldly assert that coaches provide their clients a tremendous amount of help for very little money.   Here&#8217;s the kind of help that in-garden advisor Larry Jennings provides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Helmut.  He&#8217;s a big part of the Behnke story.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Old  Country This staff profile starts in the Eastern part of Germany, where Helmut Jaehnigen was born 75 years ago.  He went on to earn a masters in arborculture in Heidelburg and pursued his career in Switzerland, Sweden, and Holland &#8211; countries that offered better pay than Germany at the time. At Behnkes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Sissy McKenzie, Store Manager in Beltsville</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next up, a Behnkes staffer whose story reflects the hire-from-within philosophy at work here, in addition to the work-really-hard ethic I keep hearing about as I interview the Behnkes team.  Just a year ago Sissy McKenzie here was &#8220;suddenly&#8221; made store manager at the Beltsville location, which she said took a lot of faith in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Bill Mann, our Design and Landscaping Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Landscaping]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to shine some light on the Behnke&#8217;s Design and Landscaping team, starting with the team captain &#8211; Bill Mann. Local Roots Bill grew up nearby New Carrollton, married an Adelphi, Maryland girl, and now lives in Bowie &#8211; you don&#8217;t get much more local to Behnkes than those three places. Education &#8211; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Alex Dencker, Manager of Behnke&#8217;s in Potomac</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Alex and Old Man Behnke Alex Dencker came to Behnke&#8217;s at the age of 18 looking to support himself through college, and that led to a stint working with Albert Behnke himself at his garden in Burtonsville.  From then on, their relationship &#8220;just stuck.&#8221;  He remembers Mr. B as a tough guy to work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Marian Parsley, Annuals Buyer and Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marian Parsley has one of those loooong histories with Behnkes that I keep hearing as I&#8217;m interviewing the staff.   In her case that means starting at Behnkes in 1980 at the tender age of 21 after her family moved here from Pennsylvania looking for employment.   Her first job was in the production greenhouse planting up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Larry Hurley, our Perennials Buyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Hurley, perennial buyer for Behnke Nurseries, has been with Behnke’s since 1984.  He always hoped someone would pay the ransom but no one has ever stepped forward. He was born in late December of 1950 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; a great town to be from.  His parents were traditional gardeners of the era, which is [...]]]></description>
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