A good place for plants

Today I went with my dad to Vander Giessen Nursery to close on a deal of plants and planting service. My dad had the bushes pulled out of two areas, one on each side of the garage, and needed to decide what to put in those beds. I was all for flowers on trellises and more flowers in front of that, but Dad wanted bushes because he considers them lower maintenance. So we went to Vander Giessen's last Saturday and talked it over with their young manager. I offered to e-mail some pictures of the areas that needed plants, along with more precise measurements than we had with us. Based on that, the manager came up with a recommendation of certain bushes to plant and an estimate of the price of plants plus the cost of someone planting them for us. Came out to a very reasonable total. So today we went back and he showed us examples of each the plants he had recommended, and we told him we'd like to go ahead with the project.

Vander Giessen Nursery has memories for me. In 1970-71, we lived just a block away from it, the year my mom, siblings, and I lived in Lynden, to be near family, while my dad spent a year in Viet Nam (he was an Air Force chaplain). I walked by it every day on my way to school that year. Also, my flower-loving grandma lived next door to us and she worked part-time at Vander Giessen.

My flower-loving grandma and my grandpa
while they still lived on the farm west of Lynden.
It was some years later that Grandma lived on
Hawley Street and worked at
Vander Giessen Nursery.