Re: Nursery deaths

**K* P* <k*@gmail.com>**

Here, north of Binghamton, NY, I had heard of Gibbs' nursery but never
managed to get there before she died. I'm sorry to hear her legacy did not
continue, but I'm not surprised.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Duane Campbell <dcamp911@gmail.com> wrote:

> Our small, rural county had three nurseries, each established decades ago.
> The last of them just closed.
>
> Gibbs nursery was found (if you could find it) through fifteen miles of
> back
> roads. Joan was a fanatic about perennials, uncommonly knowledgeable, and
> started putting some excess plants out on a picnic table by the road. For
> the last twenty years she has had busses come annually from two and three
> hundred miles away and she had a thriving wholesale business. If there was
> a
> perennial you wanted, Joan had it and could (and would) tell you all about
> it. Joan died two years ago, and the nursery was bought by a couple from
> New
> Jersey who loved gardening and had always wanted to run a nursery. Instead
> of concentrating on an endless variety of perennials, they started turning
> it into a more conventional, broader nursery. There was no drive-by traffic
> in that area, and people were not willing to go out of their way for just
> another nursery.
>
>
>
> Duane Campbell
> Syndicated garden columnist
> Author: Best of Green Space; 30 Years of Composted Columns
>
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