June 2020

Pandemic shutdown helps local garden centers flourish

On: June 26, 2020

A local gardener buys plants during a field trip to Geist Nursery at 9890 Mollenkopf Road in Fishers. (IBJ Photo/Mickey Shuey) Garden centers in the region have seen more greenery than usual this spring. Stay-at-home orders led to homeowners in central Indiana spending money on their outdoor living spaces, evenRead More →

Local garden centers see sales increase as people move from cooking to planting

By: Michael C. Pantano

On: June 12, 2020

In: Garden centers

At the start of the pandemic, we cooked, seeking to relieve ourselves from a deranged world by kneading flour and stirring soups. But with the onset of warm weather, there was a big rush to the outdoors. Everyone, or at least it seems, has ditched cooking in favor of theRead More →