Little Pee Dee was owned and run by Paul O'Sullivan, who had a passion for plants. If you wanted an honest opinion you would come and see Paul. Unfortunately Paul passed away on the 5th April 2015. He will be sadly missed by his family, friends and customers. Esme, Paul's wife took over the nursery with the help of her two daughters Jenny and Marie. Esme has always been there but behind the scenes, potting, watering and getting the plants ready for selling.  And now Esme has passed the nursery down to her Daughter Marie in July 2020. As you can see it always has been a family effort all round. Esme is now hoping to spend more time in her garden now that Marie has taken over the nursery, though she will be still helping with the day to day running of the nursery.

Marie's background initially was in production nurseries. After doing 6 months of tafe she started at her first producion nursery in 1994, she worked there for 3 ½ years where they sent stock to customers all over Australia via the post and also overseas mainly to Europe and Japan. The nursery also sent plants to the Chelsea garden show where their plants were in a gold medal display.

Marie than went on to work at a Tubestock nursery that continued to send overseas, but the main work was sending tubestock Australia wide to wholesale and retail nurseries. While she worked there she became the Nursery Manager. The production nursery had a range of about 1000 plants that were mainly produced from cuttings with seed, devision and tissue culture being the other methods. Marie worked here for 15 years with up to 20 staff under her including her Mum Esme and Sister Jenny and her Dad Paul also did some contract work there. While Marie worked at the production nursey she was able to complete her certificate,  advanced certificate and Diploma in Horticulture.

Paul and Esme purchased the 6 acre allotment and house in February 1993, though they had been living there since 1981. Paul worked the Lucerne and small crop farm till it was split up and sold. The garden was than started by Paul and Esme in February 1993, before this it was nothing but a Lucerne paddock. Paul designed and built the majority of the garden himself. The garden almost only relies on natural rainfall with exception to new plantings and the nursery which uses minimal water by hand watering. The nursery was a more recent addition to the 6 acres , opening around 1996.