Storm causes damage at popular nursery
Severe weather this week has caused damage to a popular visitor stop near Shellbrook.
The Honeywood (Dr. A.J. Porter) Heritage Nursery near Shellbrook has suffered some losses following rain and hail in the area earlier this week. The nursery’s vegetable garden is “toast” and some 300 lillies have been damaged, said Lorna Mattock with the nursery.
“It rained for an hour and a half,” she told paNOW. “Started at 12, it was over at 1:30 (p.m.), and in that hour and a half, it hailed for half an hour.”
The storm happened just a week before the nursery’s annual Lillies in Bloom festival, set for July 15. Mattock said the annual event will still go ahead, but with a reduced inventory of plants and flowers to sell.