The Growing Center

The Greenhouse Program presents the opportunity for individuals with developmental disabilities to learn work skills in the Growing Center, a retail greenhouse setting. Workers care for plants: learning skills such as watering and transplanting houseplants, working outside in the vegetable gardens or flowerbeds and keeping a shop neat and clean.

The Growing Center is open for business from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm weekdays enabling the worker to also learn appropriate customer relations. Besides being exposed to horticultural skills, workers in The Growing Center greenhouse are able to learn general work skills that will transfer to jobs in other fields opening up the opportunity for the individual to work in the competitive community.

Growing Center's Hours of Operation

Open year round Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Also open Good Friday and the two (2) Saturday’s before Easter, all Saturdays in May and Saturdays in December before Christmas.

Available Year-Round: Large variety of Houseplants, Foliage, Flowering and Gift plants in various sizes and hangers, Potting Soil, Seasonal Plants, Pots, Saucers, Plant Care Information Sheets, Transplanting, Baskets, Foil, plus Special Ordering and Bows are offered.

Valentines Day: Gift Plants in February

Easter: Plants in March-April: Lilies, Tulips, Daffodils, Hyacinth, Hydrangea, Mums, Crocus and Azalea.

Spring Plants:April-July: Spring Hangers, Pansies, Geraniums, Vegetable & Annual Flats or Pots, Window  Boxes, Cemetery Arrangements, Patio Pots and Planters.

 Fall Items: September-November: Hardy Mums-bronze, red, purple, white, yellow and daisy.

 Holiday Items for Thanksgiving & Christmas: November-December: Poinsettia, Christmas Cactus,  Cyclamen, Door Swags, Centerpieces, Cemetery Boxes, Pine Wreaths – plain or decorated, Pine Cone  Wreaths, and Decorating to Order available

 To contact The Growing Center please call

860-582-9102 Ext. 133