Abandoned Flowers - Nature's Nursery - Coon Rapids, MN
I wanted to have a Valentines Day story this year. Then life got all lifey again, and I’m running late on that planned story. Oh well… It’s a dumb holiday anyways, so I’m not too broken about poor timing… Nature’s Nursery, formerly known as Pederson Floral, operated a greenhouse/nursery/flower shop at 3525 Coon Rapids Blvd. NW, since 1955. Didn’t find any concrete date, but it appears that Nature’s Nursery closed for good in 2013. I was living in Colorado then, so I wasn’t around to notice it. Before that, I rarely travelled further west on Coon Rapids, Blvd. after Mississippi Blvd. I lived far enough north, that if I needed to get to the Mercy Hospital area, I’d just take 242 (Main Street) to Reisling (Round Lake), and get there that way. The area of Coon Rapids Blvd., between Mississippi and Round Lake, was some sort of void that I rarely needed to pay attention to. I could see the WCCO radio tower from all over town, I rarely needed to drive by it… Vacationing in Minnesota, in...