What She Does: Oversees all departments, shares gardening ideas with customers, and hosts a radio show on Saturday mornings.
Education: B.S. in Plant & Soil Sciences from the University of Maine. Her knowledge has come from 30+ years of experience.
Outside of Work: Enjoys spending time outdoors hiking, kayaking, and believe it or not. . . .gardening.
Opened the business in 1987
Favorite Plants: Pansies, Heptacodium
What He Does: General maintenance around the garden center, weed control, and helping customers
Education: B.S. in Wildlife Mangement and Law Enforcement
Outside of Work: Loves spending time outdoors fishing, hunting, hiking, anythinng outside.
Opened the business in 1987
Favorite Plants: Butterfly Weed, Black Gum ‘Wildfire’, Park’s Whopper Tomato
What She Does: Meets with customers, diagnoses plant problems, and operates the checkout area.
Outside of Work: Loves to spend time with grandchildren.
At Longfellow’s since opening in 1987
Favorite Plants: Dragon Wing Begonia, Little Lime Hydrangea, Tree Peony, Bald Cypress
What She Does: Purchases new products, operates the checkout area, and creates displays around the garden center.
Outside of Work: Enjoys hunting and cooking.
At Longfellow’s since 2007
Favorite Plants: Clematis, Iris, Hydrangea, Dogwood
What She Does: Orders and grows all the annuals and vegetables, creates custom container plantings, and works with customers on special orders.
Education: She graduated from Kansas State University with a major in Horticulture and an emphasis in Greenhouse Management.
Outside of Work: Making memories and enjoying life with her husband and two children, spending time outdoors, being with family and friends, scrapbooking and card making, and snuggling with her two dogs.
At Longfellow’s since 2013
Favorite Plants: Daffodils, Peonies, Angelonia
What She Does: Orders new perennials, bulbs and nursery stock, keeps the herbaceous perennials and nursery stock looking good and helps customers.
Education: Received her B.S. in Agriculture and has 13 years experience in the field.
Outside of work: Loves to hobby garden.
At Longfellow’s since 2013
Favorite Plants: Poppies, Lilies
What He Does: Landscape Design. Consult, design and solve landscape issues. Works with landscape team to ensure complete customer satisfaction.
Education: BS degree in Horticulture and Landscape Design from University of Missouri, Columbia. Over 40 years of experience in the field.
Outside of Work: Gardening and bonsai, camping and canoeing, hunting and fishing, traveling, and spending time with his grandson.
At Longfellow’s since 2019
Favorite Plants: Big Leaf Hydrangea, Bald Cypress, Blue Shag White Pine, Moonbeam Coreopsis
What He Does: Leads the landscape crew on installations, meets with clients, and some maintenance.
Experience: Grower for D&R Plants (now Bonnie Plants) in California, Missouri for 18 years. Rick then worked in his own landscape business for 7 years where he installed plants and mowed lawns. Rick worked with Longfellow’s on several jobs during that time.
Outside of Work: Enjoys fishing and spending time with family and friends.
At Longfellow’s since 2009
Favorite Plant: Ninebark ‘Little Devil’
What She Does: Annual planting, interior plant maintenance, small landscape jobs and weed control.
Experience: 4 years on a Community Supported Agriculture Farm
Outside of Work: Enjoys baking, reading, camping and babysitting
At Longfellow’s since 2016
Favorite Plants: Vinca, Hostas, Crape Myrtle