Article: Burpee Gardens to open store in Downers Grove.(Business)

After decades of selling gardening products through its catalogs and retailers, W. Atlee Burpee & Co. is about to open its own stores.

A Burpee Gardens store, complete with a greenhouse, cafe and outdoor courtyard will open early next month in Downers Grove.

With 14,000-square-feet of retail space, the store will sell Burpee's well-known line of seeds along with other garden products and services.

When the store opens at 1100-12 Ogden Avenue, it will be one of two such stores in the United States opened by the Warminster, Pa.- based company.

The other Burpee store is in the Philadelphia suburb of Medford, N.J.

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