PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 28, 2021
After three decades of running Risbara’s Greenhouse, Peter and Claudia Risbara will be closing their door next Saturday for the final time. A staple in the Portland community, the Risbaras have been serving local gardeners season after season, providing seedlings, flowers, and their wealth of knowledge on all things green. Theirs is the only local plant nursery that raises plants straight from the seed. The familiarity the Risbaras have with the plants they grow and the environment around them has long separated their business from other garden centers in Maine, both big and small. “We like to say, ‘We grow them so we know them,'” said Claudia Risbara.