Weathering the debris

Plastic coverings on greenhouses at the former Oregon Coast Garden Center are shredding under the onslaught of weather, time and lack of maintenance. Oregon Pacific Bank of Florence took over the property last September, and several neighbors would like to see the site cleaned up and secured to keep trash off their properties. (Photo by Terry Dillman)

Neighbors near former garden center concerned about trash

years of providing what they called “largest show of color on the Oregon coast” at Oregon Coast Garden Center near Waldport was uprooted. After reaching a record high of almost $1 billion in sales in 2007, Oregon’s nursery industry wilted into a historic slump, and has since been laying off employees and cutting costs in every category just to survive.

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