The nursery industry in Lake County began in 1854 with the vision and hard work of Jesse Storrs.  The railways were constructed the year before and he believed that access to transportation and the beneficial climate near Lake Erie

We lost a local plantsman, innovator, historian and nursery industry icon last week when Jim Zampini, age 85, passed away in his sleep after a long battle with heart disease.  A fusion of Italian and Hungarian ancestry, Jim grew

The Historic Nursery Region of Lake County is three to seven miles deep and about twenty miles long, extending from Mentor to Madison.   Once covered by glacial lakes there are three sand/gravel ridges that define the ancient shorelines.

This was written by Paul in the early 1980’s as a background piece for a Perry High School reunion.  Paul’s friendship with the Losely family in the early 1950s prompted them to move from Bainbridge to Perry, not far

Since its inception in 1928, the nursery association of Lake County has featured major industry events  to promote local operations, new plant introductions and technological innovations.  In the organization’s first year the American Nurseryman’s Association traveled by train

Agriculture arrived in Ohio long before European settlement.  By the time of the Beaver Wars around 1650, the Iroquois Confederacy, comprised of five Native American nations at the time, pushed into Ohio Country between the Ohio River and

The S.W. Call Nursery was founded by Solon W. Call in 1877.  When his father, Amherst Call was 11 years old the entire family moved from Vermont to Ohio.  The year was 1815, and  at that time

The year was 1916, and eighteen year old Elmer Schultz was about to graduate from Harvey High School in Painesville, Ohio.   Elmer had grown up in Mentor, which was still a small village with many farms and nurseries,