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interview I’m really hard on myself about procrastinating. I don’t allow myself to procrastinate. Because it’s too heavy. I just don’t want that burden. But, really, I like all of what I do. But the flowers are really the heart and the soul. I mean, like really the heart of the store, for sure. Many of your employees have been with you for a long time. We have a couple of people that have been with us for almost 30 years. Like Ben. Ben took the 10-year break. And Paul. I tell Paul all the time that if he leaves, I’m leaving. So that’s job security for you. Jeffrey. Jeffrey’s great. I mean, Edward’s been there forever. Sometimes people leave and actually come back and freelance for us. We require a lot of different talents, and if I find they do something really well, I’m brutal. I want more of it, you know. It’s like I elevate. I appreciate all of these things that either I’m bad at and they’re good at or I recognize something like penmanship. If you’ve got good penmanship, you’re writing the cards. So not everybody is good at everything. But as a collaborative, there’s so much talent there. How did you do in school? In elementary school, if I did poorly at something, because of my, hello, dyslexia, ADHD, whatever it might be, my mother’s answer—and I don’t remember it being my father’s, so I’m putting a lot of blame on my mother—was “Give him more work.” It was very old school. In high school, I coasted. I was totally invisible because I was working full time. Where did you work? Josh Gardens in the greenhouses until one day the floral designer didn’t show up, and they said, “You’re going to do the flowers today.” And I thought, “These orders have got to get out. I’ve got to come earlier tomorrow.” So every day I’d come earlier. He never replaced the floral designer, and then I had to do it. Was that your very first job at Josh? No. I had a pretend store in my parent’s 16 POST | Issue 9 January / February 2015
Matt Calabrese basement. All the labels were going the right way, a little cash register. No one ever came, but I stocked the shelves. With what? Boxes from old cereal. You know what I mean? We would have to open things a certain way so I could save the boxes. I swear to God. I was so nerdy. And then I discovered that if you plant a seed, it grows. So at the dinner table, if we were having watermelon, you better save those seeds because I’m growing a watermelon. I had shit growing everywhere. I was always outside, and they couldn’t find me half the time. I was distracted by that kind of stuff. It wasn’t a book for me. No, it was nature. Absolutely. When I was maybe 10 or 11, I had like 150 African violet plants. I would start them from leaves, and I had grow lights in the basement. This is after my store phase. So I would be down there for hours propa- Jonathan Rutherford Issue 9 January / February 2015 | POST 17
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