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After returning from WWII, Charles 'Buzz' Beeson, with his new wife May, started a family and a business. Before the war Charles had worked at Hook's Nursery in Lake County Illinois, so he thought he would give landscaping on the North Shore a try. They worked long and hard every day building a landscaping business, raising eight children, and keeping their faith in the American Dream. The business prospered and the children grew and started their own families. |
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When Charles and May Beeson started looking for a farm to build a nursery to support the garden center and landscape business over forty years ago, they found the perfect soils for growing healthy hearty trees in western McHenry County. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Joe Beeson met Mary McClelland in Montana where he studied economics. They returned to Illinois in 1979 with a plan to expand the nursery into wholesale. In 1980, Beeson's McHenry County Nursery was born. Joe and Mary worked hard together to build the nursery into a general line wholesale grower supplying the upper Midwest. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The original 100-acre farm is located in the Northwest corner of McHenry County, on White Oaks Road. McHenry County Nursery has now grown to four farms spread out over 3 miles, covering 400 acres. All of the farms are located on the White Rock Moraine laid down during the Illinois Glacial period. The soils are well leached and have a pH ranging from 5.5 to 7 and an almost stone free clay-loam. The nursery today includes not only growing fields, but poly-houses, propagation facilities, holding yards, pot-in-pot ranges, and above ground container ranges all automated with drip irrigation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Beeson's McHenry County family has grown over the years, with siblings, cousins, and children of the employees joining the group. The newest generation, the Beeson daughters Cali and Tana, are also helping out more and more as they grow and learn about business and growing plants. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Charles 'Buzz' Beeson passed away in 1995, and left a legacy of hard work, a love of trees and love for his wife May (the May in May's Delight® Crabbapple). He left his wife of 53 years a continuous reminder of his love in the form of a May's Delight® crabapple outside her kitchen window that blooms for her every spring. May continued managing her affairs, keeping her faith and going about her chores every day on her farm in Harvard until she joined her husband in June of 2008. She had her health, children, grandchildren, dogs and cats, and acres of trees to view reminding her of the power of hard work and faith. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Contact
Us 8501 White Oaks Rd, Harvard, IL 60033 Phone: (815) 943-8733 FAX: (815) 943-3511 |
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| Last updated 06/08. ©2008Beeson's McHenry County Nursery. All rights reserved. |
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