For NE gardeners

**"* C* <d*@chilitech.net>**

Joan Gibbs, of Gibbs Perennial Gardens in LeRaysville PA, died yesterday. 
Joan may have been the best perennial grower and retailer in the East. I was 
fortunate to live only a few minutes from her nursery, but every spring 
busses and cars from as far away as Virginia and Massachusetts would make 
the pilgrimage to the old farm way, way off the beaten path. They came for 
the hundreds of varieties in thousands of pots, all grown to perfection and 
sold at reasonable prices.

I'm not sure what will happen to the nursery and acres of stock plants. Joan 
was a strong, willful, idiosyncratic, not to mention loud, woman, and I find 
it hard to imagine Gibbs Nursery without Joan Gibbs. There is no heir 
apparent, and I don't yet know what the plans are for this spring. I have 
known Joan for decades, since she first put a few plants out on a table by 
the road in front of her house. I hope I have not seen the operation come 
full cycle.

D 

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