After 48 years brightening area gardens, Roozen’s Nursery has closed
“We started working for our father in the 1950s for 10 cents an hour,” Eric, 74, told me over the phone recently. “I was 10 years old. That was good money in those days.”
“At first, all we did was maintenance,” Eric said. “We had about 85 bank buildings — Suburban Trust, First American — and we did those buildings, complete landscaping and all the maintenance.” The biggest difference is the soil here, Eric said. “It’s hard clay soil. Over there we have the sandy soil. Over there, you plant it and water it and it will grow. Here you have to amend the soil to give the plant better growing conditions.”
“When we came here, we would sell a couple million tulips every fall,” Eric said. “That completely stopped because the deer ate them all.”There are more deer marauding through gardens now, he said, than there were in the 1980s.
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