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If you’re tired of looking outside and seeing snow everywhere... If you’re tired of one gloomy day after another…

If you’re tired of  flipping through the myriad of seed and gardening catalogs that fill up your mailbox...If you’re longing for summer and those beautiful gardens, then you’ll want to cure that Cabin Fever by attending this year’s Erie Home & Garden Expo. 

Stan’s Garden Center’s expert, Mr. Greengarden, will take to the Time Warner Cable Stage and share his expertise with you.  Mr. Greengarden will tell you what you can do to prepare for the spring planting season, offer tips to make gardening easier for you and he’ll even answer your individual questions.  Make sure you stop by Stan’s Garden Center display on the show floor and talk over your plans for this year’s flower or vegetable garden.  See what’s new for 2009.

About Stan’s Garden Center

Stan's Garden Center began as 'Stan's Mum' back in 1954 by Stan and Anna Marie Skarzenski.  Mum cuttings were started and planted in a field, then sold in August and September. In 1961, the business grew to become 'Stan's Floral & Garden Shop', supplying all the spring flowers and vegetables to local gardeners.  In 1970, they discontinued the floral line of the business and became 'Stan's Garden Center' and focused mainly on spring flowers and vegetables.

In February of 1981, the business changed forever with the passing of founder Stan Skarzenski. Jim Skarzenski, Stan’s middle child, left his job at GE to become the full time garden center

proprietor with his wife Carol. Meanwhile Stan's was outgrowing its confined location on the corner of Saltsman and Cumberland Rd in Harborcreek.

In 1987, the garden center moved to its current location on Rte 20 in Harborcreek and has been expanding at regular intervals ever since. In 2003, Stan's decided to expand to the west side of Erie with the opening of our 2nd location on West Lake Road. And now it's 2009 ... how quickly 55 years has flown by.