‘Wearing a Tree Kind of Broke Down a Barrier’: Nursery Workers Promote the Importance and Beauty of Native Plants

Visiting this plant nursery is like getting milk directly from the cow instead of the grocery store.

Possibility Place Nursery's founder Connor Shaw walks around the property with his dog, Remy. Shaw is semiretired but still comes out to connect with their customers. Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/TNS

By Adriana Pérez From Chicago Tribune

With its branches poking out of a drawstring bag, a potted plum tree accompanied Tristan Shaw to a recent nonprofit luncheon. For the last three years, he has carried a sapling for “emotional support” out to dinner, family parties and even canoeing and camping.