For more than three decades, the Simes family has provided locals with a variety of gardening and landscaping supplies as well as helpful tips for any level of gardener.

While the family-owned business, Jolly Lane Greenhouse, is a thriving enterprise today, it was actually started on a whim.
Dean Sime was sick of work. He woke up each morning and dreaded going into the auto body shop where he worked. It was definitely time for a change—a big change.

"A greenhouse up the road from our house came up for sale, and Dean came home one day and told me he was buying the greenhouse," says Norma Sime, his wife.
"That was almost a divorce," Dean laughed.

The very same greenhouse is now part of the Jolly Lane Greenhouse, one of many greenhouses in the Sime's family-run business.
"No one knows why I started. I certainly didn't have a green thumb," Sime says.

But more than 30 years later, after a lot of hard work, a concerted family effort, studying and mistakes, the Jolly Lane Greenhouse has become a successful, full-service garden center. The Sime's five children: Scott, Pam, Angie, Todd and Tim, have all shared a role in the expansion of the greenhouse operation.

Today, a flower shop in Rapid City, a production facility in Box Elder, the retail garden center in Rapid Valley, and a wholesale production operation comprise the Jolly Lane Greenhouse.

While the South Dakota greenhouse has greatly expanded throughout the years, its philosophy has remained the same: to produce a wide selection of healthy and hardy plants, and help others do the same.