Swansons Nursery
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Swansons Nursery
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digging deeper A Pacific Northwest Gardening Blog | Our Story After leaving Sweden, August Swanson first settled in Minnesota, where he started Swanson's Land of Flowers in 1888. In Minnesota, August met Selma, who had her own flower business. They married and soon began to raise more than just flowers. In addition to their greenhouse operation, August and Selma Swanson ran a thriving flower shop in St. Paul. August Swanson hitching up for a flower delivery, despite snowy Minnesota roads. The Swansons moved the operation to Seattle, where they started growing cut flowers. Today Swansons Nursery is still located at the original site on 15th Avenue NW, which was an unpaved rural road in 1924. The Swanson family lived, worked, and grew up on nur
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