Gordon L. Luke's Greenhouse

Park Avenue Greenhouses is an ornamental greenhouse business located in Oil City, PA. With a team of experienced contractors, they offer a range of services including landscape design and installation. Their dedication to quality and customer satisfaction sets them apart in the industry. As one of the leading greenhouses in Venango County, Park Avenue Greenhouses provides a wide selection of ornamental plants and flowers. Their expertise in creating beautiful landscapes and their commitment to excellence make them a trusted choice for all your gardening needs.Generated from the website

Although Johnston's Evergreen Nursery was started in 1953 in Erie County by Richard and Jean Johnston, the nature of the business has been passed down from generation to generation. His father had a nursery in Clearfield County and there is still a tree farm there to this day being run by his brother. Now, we are proud to say the 'love' for plants is being carried on by Richard's two sons, John & Gary, and nine other family members who work here in various capacities. The farm has certainly grown in other ways since it originated, from 30 acres to approximately 450 that are currently being worked. Over the years, we have always tried to supply the area with variety. We decided to grow and supply our customers with anything they may need for around their homes or businesses. We do not just specialize on a few types of stock, and since much of what we sell is grown in our fields, it is all indigenous to our climate. As we grow, we learn. We learn from the experience of our fathers and grandfathers right up through the horticultural educations of our granddaughters and grandsons. We constantly strive to try new plants and techniques of planting. Hopefully, we can continue to better ourselves and share our love of the environment with the tri-state area well into the future. Presently, we are striving to grow a higher quality plant through chemical root pruning, proper weed control, and balanced fertility. We had this same desire in the past when trying to think of a way to provide hand dug plants with a packaging to secure the roots, decreasing transplant shock. By originating the flat-welded, self-forming, wire basket for hand dug plants, we were able to assure increased livability. Now, this wire basket is used in many forms nationwide. It feels great when you can better the plants you are growing, but it is even better when your ideas are used by many to increase the quality of the nursery industry as a whole. Our nursery has grown very fast. What we grow, how we grow it, and who is doing the growing has made big strides in the last five years. Through all these changes the thing we consider as our biggest accomplishment is not that our nursery is successful, but that with all the family that is involved in this nursery we are able to be happy, get along, and work together. That is one of our achievements that we are most proud and thankful for. Hard work, creativity, risk taking, determination, morals, faith, even luck built and continues to build this nursery. There are standards that have been with this nursery from its beginning. Our roots are deep; however, at times the purpose of the nursery is buried by the mud on this farm or forgotten about because of the overwhelming nature of the business. Our goal, at Johnston's Evergreen Nursery, is to carry on being committed to the ideals the nursery with which we grew up.

Stan's Garden Center began back in 1954 by Stan and Anna Marie Skarzenski. The business began as 'Stan's Mum' and was the thing they supplied. Mum cuttings were started and planted in a field, then sold in August and September. In 1961, the business grew to become 'Stan's Floral & Garden Shop'. They became a floral shop and spring garden center, supplying all the spring flowers and vegetables to local gardeners. They also carried Holiday potted flowers, such as tulips, hyacinths, and poinsettias. In 1970, they discontinued the floral line of the business and became 'Stan's Garden Center' and focused mainly on spring flowers and vegetables. On February 15, 1981, the business changed forever with the passing of Stan Skarzenski. In March of 1981, Jim Skarzenski, Stan and Anna Maries middle child, left his job at GE to become the full time garden center proprietor. Meanwhile Stan's was outgrowing its confined location on Saltsman and Cumberland Rd in Harborcreek. In 1987, the garden center moved to its current location on Rte 20 in Harborcreek ( about 1 1/2 miles from its original location ) and has been expanding at regular intervals to fill the 31 acre lot ever since. In 2003, Stan's decided to expand to the west side of Erie with the opening of our 2nd location on West Lake Road. And now it's 2010... how quickly 56 years has flown by. Copyright 2009 Stan's Garden Center. Designed & Maintained by Epic WebStudios Interactive. Admin Login.