60 years ago, Schwerte received his first garden center: everything started with a rose field

Depending on the season, tomato or salad plants, akelei bats, pansies and one or the other seed bags, maybe another rose shrub when it was on the table: Hard to believe that this modest offer at a market stand – and even twice a week for a morning – had to suffice in the old city swords for planting the beds at the house or in the Schrebergarten colony. Until the graduate gardener Hans Augsburg (1935-2022) 60 years ago developed the vision of se…