About 30 years ago, Dr. Eugene Coffman, began collecting plants as a hobby while still practicing internal medicine in Dubuque, Iowa. Gene - as he introduces himself, or "Doc" - as many refer to him, fondly remembers how it all started. I asked Karl Haltenhoff, a wonderful nurseryman and florist and a patient of mine, to do the landscaping on our new house in Dubuque in 1961.
He took me to various nurseries and got me 'hooked' on Viburnums and other choice ornamental trees and shrubs. Gene's wife Roberta (Bobbie) remembers that "We ran out of room to put plants where they wouldn't obscure our view." The rest is history - they were forced to move to the "boonies." Together they spent the next 30 years taking trips to collect the ornamentals they liked from China, Korea, Europe and England and of course the US.
He took me to various nurseries and got me 'hooked' on Viburnums and other choice ornamental trees and shrubs. Gene's wife Roberta (Bobbie) remembers that "We ran out of room to put plants where they wouldn't obscure our view." The rest is history - they were forced to move to the "boonies." Together they spent the next 30 years taking trips to collect the ornamentals they liked from China, Korea, Europe and England and of course the US.
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Admittedly an arbitrary term, by "Upper Midwest, " we mean Northern Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin And Michigan. From parts of these regions, over the years, we have collected a selection of some common, and some rare, trees and shrubs that interest us. We continue to be surprised that some of them are hardy for us.
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