***Let me also add***
I would like to also do wholesale to local nurseries and landscape to get me going until I started my own. I have a few landscape/nursery companies who were interested in me growing there bedding plants a few years back when I was just getting started...any thoughts or ideas on that?

The economy is killing the nursery industry. Try selling at the farmers markets.

Frank

In my area a decline in sales of lasting reliable outdoor plants like trees and shrubs has been evident for some time, with such items often sitting in sales yards for months. Outside of large independent retail nurseries most displays are heavily dominated by "color spots" and vegetable starts, with a big component of delicate, potted flowering greenhouse crops being presented for outdoor use. Apparently if it's a small plant with big often loudly tinted flowers it scratches the itch, even if it collapses later and fails to provide lasting value.

As a professional horticulturist the best advice I can give you is to sell that which is uncommon and unique. Not sure what competition you would have but plants which are not common and have visual appeal will generate more revenue for your business then more common fare. Another consideration is to undercut your competition by pricing. Granted your margins will be lower but that will be made up in volume of sales.

Scott