Three Gardens Centers To Close By Year’s End
A bad economy, poor weather conditions for much of spring and changing gardening habits have affected the industry. The following three garden centers are no exception and will be closing their doors by the end of the year:
Emery’s Garden, Lynnwood, Wash., has plans to close its doors by mid-December, reports Michelle Dunlop of The Weekly Herald.
“It’s just the perfect storm,” said Amy Tullis, garden center director for Emery’s. “Everyone wants something on sale.” Tullis adds that gardeners shop at Costco, Lowe’s or Fred Meyer for plants but then come to Emery’s for advice on how to tend to the flowers, shrubs and vegetable starts they’ve bought elsewhere, Dunlop reports.
After 52 years, Oregon Coast Garden Center, Waldport, Ore., called it quits last week with a five-day liquidation sale, reports Lori Tobias of The Oregonian.
“Every year, sales dropped,” said owner Jack Eriksen. “We went from $1 million in sales and dropped 40 percent in four years. I knew it was over this spring when it rained so much. The first six months we were down 22 percent from the year prior, which was down probably 25 percent from the previous year. In July August, we were down 42 percent over 2010.”
John Shelley’s Garden Center, Felton, Pa., will close at the end of this month, reports Eric Gemmell of Fox 43 WPMT.
“Landscaping is a luxury We use to do high end landscaping jobs,” said owner John Shelley. “$70-90 thousand jobs, those have disappeared.” The garden center will donate it’s remaining nursery stock to local nonprofits, Gemmell writes.
For more detail on these closings, please click on the respective links above.
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