Spingarn

And Rob Spingarn of Melius Research told investors the company’s share price will “probably be stuck in the doldrums for quite a while.”

It’s no surprise that rock-garden plants are an indelible element of the Oliver DNA: Early on, the nursery’s founder, John Oliver, hired Eleanor Spingarn, who is credited with starting the Connecticut chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society.

Spingarn built and planted the rock wall in the 1970s.

It’s also a potential catalyst for Boeing shares, since the Arlington, Virginia-based company will start to unlock nearly $10 billion in cash tied up in Dreamliners stashed around its factories and in desert storage, according to Rob Spingarn, an analyst with Melius Research.

“I’ve been doing this a while, but he’d been doing it twice as long. He’d say, ‘Look, when we played Spingarn back in ’87, this is what we did.’