{"id":482563,"date":"2025-12-31T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482563\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:34:10","slug":"shades-of-green-plant-nursery-to-close-reopen-as-public-garden-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482563\/","title":{"rendered":"Shades of Green plant nursery to close, reopen as public garden in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA locally-owned plant nursery and garden center in Northern San Antonio is planning to close soon, but with a twist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s happening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shadesofgreensatx\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shades of Green<\/a>, a plant nursery located at 334 W. Sunset Road, just south of the airport, plans to close on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shadesofgreensatx\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram post<\/a> from business owners, Roberta Churchin and Bob Webster, the nursery will close as a retail center but reopen as a public green space and educational garden for residents to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s going to be many aspects to this new garden,&#8221; Churchin said. &#8220;It will be a place for learning and gathering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new space, called the Shades of Green Legacy Garden, is funded by the Shades of Green Legacy Foundation. The nonprofit organization was founded by Churchin and Webster in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at the nursery told Community Impact the new garden could take up to 18 months to complete, putting the opening timeframe sometime in the summer of 2027.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The local nursery offers a variety of plants, ranging from tropical houseplants to an eclectic mix of cacti and succulents. (Andrew Creelman\/Community Impact)\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/uploads\/images\/2025\/12\/30\/401294.jpeg\" class=\"include_body\" onerror=\"this.src=\" width=\"1200\"\/>The local nursery offers a variety of plants, ranging from tropical houseplants to an eclectic mix of cacti and succulents. (Andrew Creelman\/Community Impact)<strong>The context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the foundation\u2019s website, the garden will be \u201cprotected from development in perpetuity by a conservation easement created in 2023 in partnership with Green Spaces Alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to emphasize peace, quiet and learning here,&#8221; Churchin told Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>Churchin said she has seen so many green spaces disapear around San Antonio, particularly along Sunset Road where the nursery is located.<\/p>\n<p>By creating the new garden, Chruchin said she hopes to save the property from future construction and development.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a list showing some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/shadesofgreenlegacy.com\/garden-features-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planned features<\/a> for the new garden:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Labyrinth<\/li>\n<li>Reflexology garden<\/li>\n<li>Children\u2019s vegetable garden<\/li>\n<li>Gathering spaces<\/li>\n<li>Pollinator garden<\/li>\n<li>Wishing tree<\/li>\n<li>Walking paths<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Shades of Green Legacy Garden will provide educational opportunities, green space, and community for residents. (Andrew Creelman\/Community Impact)\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/uploads\/images\/2025\/12\/30\/401296.jpeg\" class=\"include_body\" onerror=\"this.src=\" width=\"1200\"\/>The Shades of Green Legacy Garden will provide educational opportunities, green space and community for residents. (Andrew Creelman\/Community Impact)There\u2019s also a rain barn and meeting or reading rooms planned for the garden, according to the project\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How we got here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shadesofgreenlegacy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First opening in 1981<\/a>, Shades of Green offers a variety of plants, ranging from exotic to native.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the local nursery has succulents, tropical houseplants, general herbs and vegetables, flowers, pottery, garden features and more.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Shades of Green Legacy Garden project and ways to support it, head to their website below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A locally-owned plant nursery and garden center in Northern San Antonio is planning to close soon, but with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":482564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,218471,29077,218470,218464,12322,1759,218472,218467,218462,26922,218463,7084,7202,7203,218469,218468,358,218465,18090,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,218466],"class_list":{"0":"post-482563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bexar-county-wildlife","10":"tag-cactus","11":"tag-conservation-in-san-antonio","12":"tag-conservation-san-antonio","13":"tag-flowers","14":"tag-nature","15":"tag-outdoors-texas","16":"tag-plant-nursery-bexar-county","17":"tag-plant-nursery-san-antonio","18":"tag-plants","19":"tag-plants-near-me","20":"tag-preservation","21":"tag-san-antonio","22":"tag-sanantonio","23":"tag-save-the-trees","24":"tag-succulents","25":"tag-texas","26":"tag-texas-conservation","27":"tag-trees","28":"tag-tx","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-united-states-of-america","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-usa","35":"tag-wildflowers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115814679580720863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}