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John Shelley’s Garden Center and Nursery up for sale

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Store is closing after 20 years in business

| October 24, 2011

After 21 years of catering to high end clients, John Shelley’s Garden Center & Nursery is closing its doors, Fox 43 News reported.

“We use to do high end landscaping jobs,” said company founder John Shelley. “70-90 thousand dollars jobs, those have disappeared,” he said.

At his garden center in Felton, Pa., his outdoor gardens are nearly empty, and his greenhouses have just a few remaining plants left from the summer season.

His staff of 23 employees that helped plant, garden and design has been reduced to three.

Shelley said the decline in business is based on one thing: “The economy. Plain and simple,” he said.

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