Ellen Egan has sold her retail and wholesale nursery, Egan Gardens, in Salem, Oregon, and will be closing at the end of the year.

“After 41 years I am ready to retire and get some much-needed rest,” she said. “I’m looking forward to doing all the things that I can’t do now. Of course, make the house and the yard I’m moving into mine, go back into drawing and painting and learn some new things. I want to be able to enjoy doing things at a slower pace.”

“I’m not going to miss having to get up in the middle of the night to start up a power generator in an emergency power outage.”

The nursery is being purchased by John and Kylee Pedersen, who will carry the business on as Pedersens Nursery. “They’re going to do a good job,” Egan said. “I’m very happy to be selling to them — local nursery people.”

“The Pedersens are already accomplished growers of hanging baskets, and they’ve been working out of the greenhouses at Willow Lake, where Kylee is part of the family. So those of you who have been missing Willow Lake Nursery since they changed to being a wedding venue can in a way have a bit of that nice place come back again,” she said. Egan Gardens is designated as a Century Farm, dating back to when Egan’s great-great grandfather and his family settled on the property in 1875. The sale will end five generations of family ownership of the prop