Above: You can go big on buying early holiday decor (or other decor) this month. (images cropped from contributed photos)
A Southborough based business that provided interior/exterior landscapes and holiday designs has closed. Now they are selling off their remaining stock, which includes a whole lot of indoor and outdoor Christmas and holiday decor.
The going-out-of-business sale is taking place today and tomorrow. It’s expected to continue the following two weekends, but there will obviously be more to choose from if you hit this weekend’s sale.
Harding Botanicals’ sale is running from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm on:
- today (Friday, November 8th) and tomorrow (Saturday, November 9th)
- Friday, November 15 – Sunday, November 17
- Friday, November 22 – Sunday, November 24
Owner Beth Harding is selling off interior and exterior landscape decor that she had in her Southborough warehouse. That is mainly holiday decor, planters, and pots. There are also some other items, including furniture.
For more background on the business, scroll down.
Below are contributed photos with examples of the items up for sale:
The warehouse is located at 66 Breakneck Hill Road, adjacent to the Breakneck Hill Conservation Land.
(Reminder, the Conservation Land parking lot on that side of the property is temporarily closed to the public, so can’t be used for overflow parking. You can use the lot further south if needed. Click here for more details.)
Harding, owner of Harding Botanicals explained that she is retiring after 35 years in the business of “the fine art of interior & exterior living environments”. She had catered exclusively to commercial/corporate clients. (You can see examples of her work here.)
For decades, she has worked out a warehouse that was formerly part of Breakneck Hill Farm. (Initially, she shared space with farmer Ray Davis. She purchased the property outright after his retirement in 2000.) On her website she wrote that when she was looking for a location, she found and fell in love with the site, “what could be more perfect than to transform an old bee farm and apple processing building into our own creative design studio?”
This year, Harding sold the core of her business to another firm which took over all of her contracts and rental agreements (plus took on her employees at their existing salaries). But they didn’t purchase the extra decor she had in stock. Thus, the sale.
The company also didn’t purchase the building which she is seeking to sell separately. Harding hopes she can find a buyer who appreciates the idea of converting the existing building adjacent to the Town-owned Conservation Land to a home in harmony with the land (in the vein of Frank Lloyd Wright’s concrete block style). Although the property is permitted for its current commercial use, it is sited in Southborough’s Residence A zoning district.
