WINTERVILLE, Ga. -- She won't miss working every day, frying in the hot Georgia sun, worrying about the lack of rain or finding strangers wandering about her 30 acres after hours. But she will miss her regular customers, the 100 or so people she lovingly calls "the plant junkies" who frequent Thyme After Thyme almost as often as Kroger or Publix.
Since she decided to close her Winterville plant nursery, Sally Barksdale has been seeing about 200 customers a day. They tell her they are distressed she's closing, thank her for 25 years of dispensing advice and selling plants and then proceed to stock up on plants, compost, tools and other gardening items.
"The economy and the weather have been brutal the last few years," she said. "I'm going to move on, have a life again and have a day off."
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