Maryville, MO Peony Business Grows With Informal Partnership
June 3, 2016 | 1 min to read
They grew up decades and an ocean apart, one just outside St. Joseph in the 1930s and one in Bavaria, Germany, in the 1970s. It might seem like an unlikely pair, but Don Hollingsworth and Juergen Steininger share a passion for innovation in cultivating plant varieties.
Throughout the 1990s until 2013, Hollingsworth operated the business on the southeast end of Maryville where he sold potted and wholesale peonies and ran an online and printed catalog.
Hollingsworth began breeding cattle in the late 1940s after studying agriculture at the University of Missouri. Early in his breeding career, Hollingsworth said he didn’t see a great enough opportunity for him to improve livestock the way he would have liked. Coming up with new plant varieties, Hollingsworth said, was more appealing.
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