If you ask Barn Bryant of B.B. Barns about his company’s custom holiday offerings, he’s got one word: smokehouse.
Barney Bryant, co-owner of B.B. Barns Garden Center on Sweeten Creek Highway in Arden, and a native of Franklin, remembers making Christmas wreaths for his family’s home, church, cemetary, and yes, even the outhouse. Bryant—Barn, as friends fondly call him—recalls gathering greens and setting up a makeshift workshop in the family smokehouse back in Franklin. Fall is the time to shape evergreen trees and shrubs, and it was Barn’s job to prune the conifers, hollies, and boxwoods that would form and decorate the wreaths. This family tradition helped create the idea for the holiday design bench at the garden center.
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