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Page 1 of 3 The Richmond Nursery started our not in it's current location, but in an area called "Ottawa Park" near the dead-end of Ottawa Street. This was behind George and Claudia's original home.
The first real crop at the nursery was a strawberry plantation. Here is one of the first berry plantations from the 1960's. 
As the berry business started to become somewhat successful, "George's berry patch" as it was affectionately know, formally became Richmond Nursery in 1970. In addition to berries, nursery stock was grown. Since landscaping was in it's infancy, nobody shipped plants as far as Ottawa so you had to grow your own material. This is another view outside the back of George and Claudia's home in the early years of the nursery. 
After working with woody plants and fruit crops, greenhouses were added to grow bedding plants. Here is an early "hoop house", again in their backyard. 
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