A KEEN gardener from Tetney is coming out of retirement to relaunch a nursery selling plants at reasonable prices.
Granville Norburn ran the popular Norburn's Garden Centre, in Station Road, Tetney, until 2009 when he decided to retire shortly after his son, Robert 28, died in a car crash.
But after witnessing the escalating cost of plants at other garden centres over the past couple of years, he has decided to reopen his nursery for the summer months.
Granville said: "When you lose a child it knocks the heart out of you and I just didn't feel up to running the business anymore, so I retired.
"I've had a lot more time on my hands and I've had to go out to other garden centres to buy plants for my own garden.
"I was out shopping for them one day when I noticed how ridiculous the prices were and it got me thinking about reopening.
"I didn't want a full garden centre again, because I only want to work part time, so I decided to just open a nursery where I could sell the plants I'd grown.
"I hope that the affordable prices will give the public what they want.
"I love meeting people and I love gardening so I'm looking forward to doing it all again."
Concentrating solely on bedding and basket plants at affordable prices, the nursery will open for the first time next Saturday and run until the end of July.
Former landscape gardener Granville originally opened Norburn's almost 30 years ago and it proved a huge success until it closed in 2009.
Despite the garden centre having closed, the Norburn's site hasn't remained vacant, with Granville's son, Stephen, and his wife, Maureen, reopening Norburn's Coffee Shop two years ago.
A craft business at the site, run by his daughter, Jill Baldwin, has also proved a great success.
Granville said: "I had planned to reopen at the start of April ready for Easter, but the weather has been so cold that the plants haven't been growing, so we had to delay it.
"This year will be a bit of a trial run to see how popular we are. I hope our old customers will come back to see us for their plants."
Norburn's nursery will be open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 2pm.
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