"Your One Stop Garden Center"

Serving Star Valley, Payson, Pine, Strawberry and Rim Country

About Us

Glen McCombs, owner of Plant Fair Nursery in Star Valley has more than a green thumb. He may very well have gardening genes. I'm a fourth -generation nurseryman." he says. "My great-grandfather, Jeremiah McCombs, started a nursery in Ontario, Canada in 1890.

McCombs Nursery covered 160 acres and was passed from father to son, all the way to Glen's father, who moved to Phoenix in the 1940s. Don McCombs continued the family tradition at Arizona State University and Wheat's Nursery. Glen started working with his father at age 16.

"Dad was a front-runner at propagating native Arizona plants so they could be sold. He used to drive the family around on Sundays looking at the trees, and repeating the names of each. I knew how to pronounce all the botanical names when I was in grade school."

Glen has worked in the nursery business all his life, except for four years in the armed services. Thanks to years of experience at Tip Top Nursery in Phoenix and people he came to know in the industry, Glen says he was able to greatly increase the plant palate offered in Payson when he opened his store in 1983.

Glen's wife Linda, is the other big key to the business' success. She was selling garden supplies and had managed a nursery in Albuquerque when they met and married. It was she who found Payson and sold her husband on the area as the perfect place to grow their dream. She knew what grew well in a dry, mountain climate. Linda continued to sell garden supplies the first five years, supporting them while the business grew, and handling Plant Fair's finances, a job she still holds.

They started at the feed store in Star Valley across the road from their present location. A year later, they bought an acre from Dee Anderson. Later, they expanded to three acres and built a larger garden center. The McCombs bought Anderson's home next to the nursery, where they now live.

Glen and Linda offer their customers gardening insights and experience, gained from years of active gardening and operating their nursery. Their goal is to assist Plant Fair customers in becoming more successful gardeners and are proud to be a part of this industry and are firmly dedicated to the enrichment of our environment.