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Sheridan Nurseries is a Canadian garden supplies company based in the Toronto area. The company has over of land for growing plants and nine garden centers. Employment varies seasonally, but during peak periods it has over 1,000 staff. ==History== The British landscape architects Howard and Lorrie Dunington-Grubb founded Sheridan Nurseries in 1913 in the hamlet of Sheridan outside Oakville, Ontario. They bought of land, of which only about turned out to be suitable for ornamental plants. The Dunington-Grubbs hired Sven Herman Stensson to run the nursery after he responded to an advertisement in an English paper. By 1926 the nursery had grown to , with a wide range of trees, shrubs and perennials. The first seasonal garden centers were opened in the early 1920s near the Yonge and Bloor intersection in what is now downtown Toronto and on Southdown Road in Mississauga. Sheridan Nurseries has been involved in finding or developing hybrids suitable for the harsh Canadian climate. They acquired seeds of the hardy Korean boxwood in 1922, and first listed it in their catalog in 1939. It became a great success. The company's 1939 catalog described the Alpine currant as "the most satisfactory shrub for a deciduous hedge" and called the Japanese yew "the best shrub available for an evergreen hedge of moderate height." Starting in the late 1960s the Sheridan Nurseries began developing hardy alternatives to the English box for hedging. They are crosses of ''buxus sempervirens'' and the very hardy ''buxus microphylla''. Sheridan Nurseries also developed Mountbatten Juniper and Ivory Silk Japanese Tree Lilac. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sheridan Nurseries」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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