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Northshore October 2025
  For Jean Verbridge, principal at Beverly-based Siemasko + Verbridge, the path to a satisfying career as a commercial and residential interior designer ran through a plant store. After graduating from Ithaca College in New York with a love of plants and no idea what to do next, she got a job working at a greenhouse in Boston. It was the 1970s, when potted plants were all the rage, especially in office design, and she soon sensed an opportunity: In upstate New York, where she had grown up, there were no plant stores at all. She opened a retail potted plant store in the area and began supplying her wares to businesses such as Xer
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