Best Home & Garden IN OAK CLIFF

And the winner is …

Advocate readers in July chose Brumley Gardens as the best home and garden store in Oak Cliff. A few days later, the West Davis garden store announced it is closing at the end of August.

Brumley opened its first location in Lake Highlands more than 20 years ago and expanded to Oak Cliff in 2012. The shop took a former gas station at 700 W. Davis, which previously had been Repotted, a short-lived neighborhood garden store. Prior to that, the space had been vacant for several years.

Store manager Marie Jenkins said a couple of factors led to the store closing. Upcoming sewer maintenance on West Davis wherein the street will be under construction for up to nine months, and flagging sales, which she attributes to spring flooding.

The good news: Brumley Gardens is looking for another location in Oak Cliff, Jenkins says.

“This community has been so wonderful and welcomed us,” Jenkins says. “It’s going to be hard for me to walk away because this has been my home for the past three years. We love this place.”

Brumley Gardens’ original location, at 10540 Church Road, is still open.

—Rachel Stone

Runner up: Neighborhood Third place: Fete-Ish

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