Joshua's though, confuses me. The parking lot is pretty much useless and you end up having to park farther away than just about any nursery in town. The plant selection is okay but not spectacular. They carry many of the same mundane plants that Wal-mart, Home Depot, etc. carry.

The part that baffles me is the grafted on antiques barn. I rarely mix the two activities together and frankly when I garden I'm often dirty, running to the nursery for something urgently needed. I feel like a hooker going into church when it comes to that barn. I'm apologetic that I don't care for old junk -- I know of people who do like it.

So overall, I often leave wondering what the point is at this nursery. I returned recently after about a year away, and when I left, all I could think about was my similar reaction to intermittently eating at Long John Silvers. I keep thinking/hoping it will be good one time, but often its disappointing if not awful.

My advice is to lose the antiques except those that could be incorporated into outdoor "rooms", focus on unique plants that others don't carry and somehow address the parking. I'd approach the city about putting in irrigation piping into the drainage ditches, filling in with gravel and dirt and then getting a permit to park cars on top of the solid surface.

Then I'd come back. Maybe. Probably not.