Mays Greenhouse is an independently owned business located on South Old State Road 37 that has served the Bloomington community for nearly 50 years.
Mays opened up in 1965, when it started as a vegetable stand run by a father and his four daughters.
Every year since, the vegetable stand had grown more and more into the greenhouse it is today.
The Mays Greenhouse fall open house took place Sunday and offered community members an atypical visit to the greenhouse.
Features for the open house included a haunted maze, games and a raffle.
The open house was an announcement of its new fall plant line-up, which will feature vegetables and other plants often associated with the festive season.
Greenhouse employee Nathan Pennington said the open house has been a tradition since before he started working there 15 years ago.
One of the Mays traditions includes a haunted greenhouse maze, in which workers transform an unused greenhouse into a spooky maze for visitors.
The maze features a collection of paper-mache monsters, signaling Hallowween is just around the corner.
It will stay open throughout the month of October, ending on Halloween. It is free to go inside.
The open house also featured Halloween-themed activities for kids and adults alike.
The greenhouse’s popularity seems to have stood the test of time.
“It started as a vegetable stand, and now we think we have the largest variety of plants in Indiana,” Pennington said.
