After layoff, a gardener digs a new business

A former office dweller finds a new landscape in her blooming travel gardener business.

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"After three decades behind a desk, Eileen Hugelier now spends her days designing, planting, pruning and tending gardens around her leafy hometown of Farmington Hills, Mich. At 60, she's the owner of Roots & Shoots Gardening, which she founded in 2002...

"A lot of people have about an acre of land, but just don't have time to take care of it themselves," says Ms. Hugelier, who spends most of her time planting annuals, doing garden design and upkeep, and trimming shrubs..."

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