Variegated Foliage Nursery

Well here is the next installment on my orgy of garden and nursery visits, the Variegated Foliage Nursery.....

Sunday afternoon, after having already spent a fair bit of time at Holly Farms, a daylily and general nursery, and despite really feeling ready to be home, I allowed myself to be talked into visiting Variegated Foliage Nursery - the map makes it look like it is only a few minutes off Rte 84 by my friend and fellow daylily addict. ( no names to protect the innocent.)

First - don't believe the map shown on the website - the scale is way off and you wander the back roads of Connecticut seemingly for ever.

But, we did finally make it and discovered several familiar faces from our local club with full arms and wagons. Bring your biggest vehicle and lots of money or all the willpower you've ever had because you are going to want one of everything, annuals to trees and everything in between. Sun lovers and shade lovers, water plants, teeny to tall.
As you enter off the street, there mixed beds to display just a small part of the possibilities. I was overwhelmed and ready to explore. There was a large selection of hosta in pots including several rows of buy one get one free plants. (oh for just a little more shade!) Since there the daylily people were there, the owner invited us to view some variegated hems that he was watching.(sadly, hemerocallis tend to revert, but if these are stable.....)
I found variegated geraniums (bought one of those!), pulmonerias (shade, I want shade), conifers (lots of additions to my wish list) and coral bells! lots and lots of coral bells! many I have never seen before! And I found it - one I have been looking for - H. Shamrock - silver veined leaves and green flowers - worth the trip all by itself.

And the return trip that my partner in crime are already planning.

Tomorrow - brief notes on Syndey Eddison's garden and Maywood Estates.

Cheryl
PS the website for the Variegated Foliage Nursery is
http://www.variegatedfoliage.com/
just to wet your appetite! :)
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Cheryl Isaak
Londonderry, NH
AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
growing, stitching and reading in NH

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