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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Lifestyle
Jessica Benda

First came love, then a fiddle-leaf fig and a bustling plant store

LOS ANGELES -- In the now-infamous summer of 2020, the Baziks' new business had customers lining down the block.

SarahCotta Plants opened its Glendale, California, doors that July, a bold move by its wife and husband owners, Sarah and Tadeh. Their store grew from tough soil — the summer the pandemic shuttered many small businesses — but it's still thriving two years later. Now, standing behind the shop's wood counter, the Baziks answer the big question: How?

Tadeh thinks people needed an escape from pandemic stress.

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