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Goodbye Heronswood

June 1, 2006 by Andrea Bellamy 3 Comments

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Goddamn it. The bastards have closed Heronswood.

Corporate-giant Burpee has closed the beloved Northwest-Washington nursery after purchasing it six years ago. Burpee’s president George Ball says, “We tried for six years and it just wasn’t profitable.” I’m sorry, but how did Dan Hinkley manage for the first 14 years while sliding deeper and deeper into debt? I mean, it wasn’t profitable! This makes me so sad, and more than a little angry. What is profit? Making $100? $100,000? $100,000,000?

Thanks to Amy for the heads up, and the fantastic post. I’m too pissed off right now to say any more without the further use of inappropriate expletives. Besides, Amy pretty much says it all.

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  1. Paul says

    May 3, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    As an East Coast person, I’m happy that Heronswood moved out this way. It’s allowed for me to go to the East Coast opens now. The last one was very good. Nice article here talks about the last one. Picked up some nice hellebores.

    http://www.mcall.com/features/custom/hg/garden/nurseries/all-gardenstopshops0427.5817119apr27,0,2361228.story

    Future Opens
    http://www.heronswood.com/openevents.asp

  2. Andrew says

    July 20, 2007 at 10:13 pm

    The above comment by user ‘Paul’ was mass-spammed to dozens of gardening-related blogs by a Burpee employee with the IP 69.248.162.148 in Pennsylvania. It is a rather shoddy example of astroturfing in an attempt to simulate support for Burpee’s actions. You can verify this with the following google search:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22I%27m+happy+that+Heronswood+moved+out+this+way%22&filter=0

    Thanks for your opinion, ‘Paul’.

  3. Andrea says

    July 22, 2007 at 10:36 am

    Very interesting. Thanks Andrew :)

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