Sandy • Loren and Debbie Nielsen hung the yellow “store closing” signs in August, plenty of time — it seemed — to prepare for Wednesday’s final day of business at Wasatch Shadows Nursery.
Still, as the couple stood among the empty shelves and 80 percent off tags, they had mixed emotions about shutting down their well-known business which has been rooted in the state’s gardening and landscape industry for more than four decades.
“The most rewarding thing,” explained Loren, ”is how many people have come in and said how much they will miss us.”
A memory book inside the store is filled with customer good wishes — and laments — about the closure and the Nielsens' pending retirement.