Raintree Garden Center Ready to Spring Forward

15 Mar 2021

News, Eau Claire

Just as purple and yellow crocuses sprout through melting snow, the Raintree Garden Center – a new 15,000 square-foot mecca for gardeners – emerges from the snow in Eau Claire. Two huge greenhouses will soon be filled with hundreds of homegrown hanging baskets, vegetable plants, and flowers of all kinds in time for this new garden center’s grand opening on April 1. (No fooling!)

Raintree Garden Center has been owner Melissa Wiltrout’s dream for the past 20 years. In fact, the idea for the garden center literally developed from a dream she had. “The name and my raintree logo came to me in a dream,” Wiltrout said. “My love for nature came from my dad, who led us on nature walks identifying flora and fauna in the woods near our home in Chippewa Falls.”

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