Lavalette Nursery Business of the Week

The Herald-Dispatch
published December 6, 2005

HUNTINGTON -- The Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce announces Lavalette Nursery as its Business of the Week for the week of Dec. 5, 2005.

Lavalette Nursery, located at 1601 5th Street Road in Huntington, offers a full line of gardening and landscaping services, as well as accessories and supplies. Features of the Garden Center include shade and flowering trees, evergreens, flowering shrubs, perennials and annuals, roses, herbs, unique and hard-to-find specimens, and water gardens.

Lavalette Nursery also provides landscaping services including design and consultation, installation, maintenance, retaining walls and patios, and seeding and sodding. The landscape portion of the business designs and builds projects for residential and commercial clients within a 30-mile radius of Huntington. Garden accessories, such as wild bird supplies, soils and mulches, bonsais and special orders are also available.

"Lavalette Nursery offers quality plants, products and services to consumers in our area and we are pleased to announce them as the Business of the Week," Robin Pelfrey, vice president of the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce, said.

Founded in 1947 by Bill Springer and a partner on a small farm south of Huntington, the center moved to its current location in 1954 and has since expanded its features to include a scenic waterfall, display gardens, and plenty of parking. Mark Springer, president of Lavalette Nursery, graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in landscape architecture and is a past president of the West Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association.

The Garden Center is open year round and is staffed by three certified professional horticulturalists to assist customers.