LEXINGTON — A nearby few has moved their set up, vastly different enterprises into a person downtown spot, hoping their corporations will be a strengthen to downtown lifetime and foot website traffic.
Jesca Jaymes and Dylan Jaymes have moved Odd Flora and Jaymes Agency to 4 E. Very first Ave., driving The Brewer’s Kettle in the former Coastland Clothing house. Coastland Attire moved to Thomasville.
Odd Flora is a store of uncommon and unconventional vegetation from about the environment and is open up by appointment only or for particular gatherings, and Dylan Jaymes is in the small business of helping other organizations attain their buyers and boost their merchandise or companies by way of online video advertising.
They held their grand opening Sept. 8. They share the 2,500-square-foot house, with Odd Flora occupying about 500 sq. feet in the front and Jaymes Agency having up about 2,000 in the back.
“Borderland Movies was my 1st undertaking into online video when I was 15,” claimed the western New York indigenous. “I gave it up for a ‘real’ work and went again to it in 2017 with the Jaymes Agency. In this day and age with everybody on social meia, the best way to converse with your customers is movie. People today would somewhat observe a movie than browse about your small business.”
He mentioned he hopes his enterprise not only assists his clients’ businesses but also fills out the downtown company district with options not presently there.
“We want to see much more daily life in downtown Lexington,” he explained.
Prior to bringing their firms to downtown Lexington, they operated out of their house. Each needed far more house, and the shift gave Dylan Jaymes a studio so he would not have to shoot on a distant site all the time.
Lexington native Jesca Jaymes commenced her plant store about a single year ago.
“I focus in vegetation that are scarce or tricky to locate,” she stated. “I ship all in excess of the region. Buying plants on the net has been a issue for decades, but in the course of COVID it actually opened up.”
A pair of the rare vegetation she grows, propagates and sells are mutant manjula pothos from Hawaii, which has variegated cream-and-green-colored leaves, and the monstera siltepecana from El Salvador. She has a lot more than a 100 varieties of crops.
“I predominantly carry tropical indoor plants,” she stated. “They would survive outdoors here for a even though, but in our climate when the temperature drops below 50 levels they would not survive.”
In addition, she said, several of her plants do not want direct sunlight. If you aren’t as versed in how to care for crops, really don’t fret. Jesca Jaymes delivers expertise to her plant purchasers.
“I want to focus on the instructional facet of this, as well,” she claimed. “I do not adhere to you possibly have a eco-friendly thumb or a black thumb. It’s about obtaining a plant that fits your life-style. I am heading to convey to you particularly how to just take care of your vegetation. I like to phone myself a leafy life style coach.”
Her vegetation charge from $7 to the reduced $100s.
In addition functioning to Odd Flora, she is an artist and information the “I Am Power” podcast, which highlights inspirational stories about females who have reworked from a traumatic knowledge. She makes a piece of art that represents just about every woman’s tale and transformation. Replicas of the piece can be obtained if someone connects with the tale and the art.
To make an appointment with Jesca Jaymes to check out and buy plants or her artwork, email her at [email protected] or shop her on-line store at www.OddFlora.com. You can adhere to her get the job done on social media platforms by searching Odd Flora, I Am Ability, Jesca Jaymes Artwork or Jesca Jaymes.
To discuss with Dylan Jaymes about online video marketing and advertising, simply call (336) 355-7929, e-mail at [email protected] or search Jaymesagency on social media platforms.