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Burpee Seeks to Turn Heronswood into Condos
Closed Published June 9th, 2006 on Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better PlaceI kid you not. Anne Raver wrote another one of her terrific gardening columns (the online version is truncated unfortunately) in today’s NY Times, an epitaph for the wonder which was Heronswood. For those who don’t know the story, after buying Heronswood in 1999 for $4.5-million, Burpee closed it down last week and […]
Burpee’s Act of Garden Vandalism: Heronswood is Gone
Closed Published June 7th, 2006 on Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place (photo: Heronswood.com)
For the gardeners among us, you may never buy another seed packet from Burpee’s after you read this travesty of a story. Six years ago, Burpee’s bought Dan Hinckley’s Heronswood Nursery. If you’ve never read, heard about or seen Heronswood I feel sorry for you. It was an oasis of […]