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Tony Avent is the owner of Plant Delights Nursery in Raleigh, North Carolina. Avent founded Plant Delights in 1988 to help fund the activities of Juniper Level Botanic Gardens, a display and research garden with over 11,000 plants. A graduate of North Carolina State University, Avent was a student of the late horticulture professor J. C. Raulston, who instilled in him the quest for the newest and best garden plants from around the world. Avent is well known as a lecturer and garden writer; he is the recipient of prestigious awards from the American Horticultural Society, the North American Rock Garden Society, and the North Carolina Association of Nurserymen, among others. He runs his nursery together with his wife, Michelle; they receive help from their cats Diamond, Pearl, Ruby, and Zirconia
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