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Mayfield Nursery opens Express store here
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By Andrew Kuehl
akuehl@kewaskumstatesman.com
KEWASKUM- Planters partial to perennials and more now have a new option when it comes to purchasing their plantings. Mayfield Nursery Express opened in the village on Saturday, April 28, in the parking
lot of Kettle Moraine Town and Country.
Gene Schultz, who owns Mayfield Nursery in West Bend, with his wife Bernice, explains that their first satellite store will carry products from their store on Mayfield Road. Those items include trees, shrubs, evergreens, vegetables, hanging baskets and many
varieties of the perennials that make them locally famous.
As anyone who has shopped at Mayfield Nursery knows, the store specializes in perennials, carrying over 1,200 varieties. You won’t find all 1,200 varieties in Kewaskum, however, Gene says he is happy to deliver any specialty items from the West Bend store to Kewaskum.
At West Bend customers will find a vast assortment of statuary, garden art, furniture, pottery, bulk and bagged mulch and stone.
Gene says that being rural Kewaskum residents, Bernice and himself drove through Kewaskum daily on their way to their nursery wanting to open one in their community. When Kettle Moraine Town and Country
owners Mike and Kerrie Kunkel approached them, they said yes.
“Opening the Express was also done as a convenience for our customers. We have a lot of customers from Kewaskum and Campbellsport,” reported Gene.
Mayfield Nursery is a family-run organization with both the Schultz’s children, Mark Schultz and Karen Weix, assisting with management of the nursery’s operations. The nursery started from very small humble beginnings Gene remembered. A teacher in 1972 when Mayfield began, he quit his job and started doing what he enjoyed full-time in 1978. At that time Mayfield also operated an orchard, but that operation has since ceased.
The Express Nursery will be open throughout the growing season with its offerings varying weekly. The store will have the same hours as Town and Country, Monday through Friday 9 a.m. -7 p.m., Saturday, 8
a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sunday, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Mayfield Nursery is rapidly becoming one of Wisconsin's premier perennial growers. The operation now includes over 50 greenhouses producing more than three quarters of a million plants annually and
services independent garden centers, nurseries, landscapers, golf courses and municipalities from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Northern Illinois and west to the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
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