North Haven Gardens General Manager Cody Hoya DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com The nursery recovered from the 2019 tornado, then a pandemic, a freeze and a blocked Suez Canal have contributed to a crazy year When the 2019 tornado destroyed all of the buildings at North Haven Gardens, it gave tthe staff the chance to re-imagine the 70-year-old nursery.
General Manager Cody Hoya said that when the tornado hit northwest Dallas two years ago, trees were overturned, and greenhouses were bent.
But underneath the rubble. North Haven employees found undisturbed flats of African violets. On top of that, historical photos were saved, and the art gallery fared pretty well.