Richard Eyre developed a passion for gardening and conifers at a very early age. He was influenced by his parents and grandparents who were avid gardeners. In the early 1950s, Rich{s parents met Pete Girard Sr. at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show where Pete was demonstrating tree grafting. Rich{s mother Margaret grew trees from Girard{s in a home nursery for their construction business projects, and Rich was fascinated with the more unusual trees in their catalog. In 1968, while working for the Peace Corps, Rich found a copy of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden series on dwarf conifers by Fred Bergman in his Peace Corps book locker in Bolivia. And it was while working in the Amazon jungle that he dreamed of raising rare conifers for a living. On his return in 1970, he began building his conifer collection. He realized his dream with his wife Susan and mother Margaret when they launched the business. The first trees were planted at Foxwillow Pines Nursery in 1988.
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