Re: [SG] New England area nurseries
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- Subject: Re: [SG] New England area nurseries
- From: R* D* <d*@INDIANA.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 08:11:42 -0500
I hope someone is saving all of this info. Garden in the Woods is the only
one I had heard of. Would it make a good article for an early issue of
SHADEGARDENS--THE JOURNAL??? How is that coming, by the way?
Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6
> Two more are Joe Pye Weed's Garden in Carlisle, a siberian iris breeding and
> display garden. And, Twombly Nursery, the finest tree and shrub supplier in
> the northeast. Twombly is located in Monroe, Connecticut.
>
> There is a very fine clematis nursery on Cape Cod, I cannot remember the town
> but a search will find it. The clematis nursery has a web page. I think it
> was discussed here a while back.
>
> The daylily field is Seawright Nursery in Carlisle, MA. Seawright,
> Blanchette and Joe Pye Weed are all a few miles from each other. Seawright
> has a large hosta display garden with rock and water features. Not too far
> from all are the annual test gardens of the Mass. Hort. Society. In the same
> area is a large shady wildflower garden, The Garden in the Woods (Framingham,
> Mass.). The Garden in the Woods has a spring plant sale and ongoing sale of
> native (mostly shade) plants.
>
> Blanchette, previously praised here, is also the "astilbe king" of the the
> country.
>