Every season brings a reason to shop Laurel Nursery/Garden Center
Did you know that besides being a full-service garden center with all that you need for your yard and garden, Laurel Nursery/Garden Center also has a beautiful gift shop with tabletop décor, flags and rugs? Just inside the main doors, you will be delighted with its Lu Lu’s Boutique, which carries beautiful clothing, handbags and jewelry.
Attached to the store is a 3,000-square-foot houseplant and tropical greenhouse, which is stocked year-round with plants from the usual to the unusual, along with a pottery area with plastic, ceramic and terra cotta planters.
Step behind the store to our outdoor living area where there are gazing balls, birdbaths and concrete statuary. Don’t forget that Laurel is a full-line dealer of Yeti and Weber, boasting a huge inventory to choose from.
So … you think it’s just about spring? Laurel Nursery/Garden Center is open year-round offering seasonal gifts and products.
In the winter, you can shop its huge selection of seed packets and seed starting products. Or maybe you want to green up your home with a new houseplant and planter. There are soils and supplies to keep your plants happy.
Laurel springs to life in April and May. It has eight production greenhouses to grow hanging baskets, geraniums, combo planters and vegetables. In its annual area, thousands of flats of flowers and vegetables, individual annuals and herbs are stocked.
In the sales yard, the flowering trees and shrubs are spectacular along with lush evergreens for any landscape situation. “Shrubbery-wise, anything you can think of, we have,” says Ken Heese, president of Laurel Nursery/Garden Center. “Annuals-same thing: Every variety that you can come up with, we have.”
Come early summer, perennials come to life with beautiful blooms and foliage. Weekly shipments arrive throughout the month of June.
It’s not over yet. It’s time for autumn. “We do a full line of fall decorations along with over 100 varieties of pumpkins, gourds and squash along with cornstalks, ornamental corn and straw,” says Heese. “In our sales area we grow over 5,000 fall mums in a range of sizes, along with flowering kale and pansies. And of course, our gift shop has beautiful wreaths, flags, rugs and tabletop items.”
Last, but not least, there’s Christmas. The store is transformed into a holiday wonderland with theme trees, ornaments, ribbon, bows, light sets and artificial wreaths, garland and picks. In the retail greenhouse, there are hundreds of poinsettias, grown here, along with holiday plants, such as Christmas cactus and Cyclamen. Outside under cover are fragrant and lush live cut trees, greens and wreaths.
Laurel Nursery/Garden Center has grown over its 48-year history from just one acre in 1974 to the sprawling operation it is today. The family operation was started by John and Joyce Heese. Today, their son, Ken, daughter-in-law, and grandson are all part of the 78-acre operation.
“We’re in the third generation,” Heese said. “We have no plans on going anywhere but being here.”
Whether it’s flowers and plants from the greenhouses, clothing and jewelry from LuLu’s Boutique, or décor and more from the gift shop, Laurel Nursery/Garden Center has every season covered.
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