Nursery Tour

Last week was our now annual nursery tour.  Momma, Evelyn, and I packed ourselves up and headed eastward.  The first stop was Ebert’s Greenhouse Village.

Twenty- eight greenhouses plus areas for perennials and a gift shop make up this nursery. There are five greenhouses devoted to geraniums.  So many geraniums.  All of those I bought this year are hot pink, four different varieties of hot pink.

This is the 30,000 square foot greenhouse full of hanging baskets and tables and tables of coleus, begonias, and other annuals.

We moved on to another crappy place that was way off our path and not worth mentioning before heading to Monches Farm.

They have their perennials in the ground and you dig them up with the pitchforks provided at the end of each row.

The gift shop in the house is a great place, where French music plays and finches sing.  In the conservatory to the side of the house is a cage where turtledoves softly coo.

There is also an open chicken coop where the giant rooster patrols.  You can find a stray hen here and there scratching under the bluebells.

I got a little too close to the peacock, who was roosting on the coop door.  He jumped down and started dancing for me.

This little one is as pretty as a bluebell.  Maybe even cuter.

The next day we moved south to Shady Acres nursery.  This one was so quiet and peaceful.  They had a nice selection of perennials and I managed to fill a wagon with delphiniums, echincheas, herbs, and a new hosta (one called Wolverine, as I had just seen the new X-Men movie).  I topped it off with a squirrel sculpture.

Only a few more stops left because our vehicle was getting full.  We picked up some organic veggies at Yerke’s Greenhouses then continued on to Northwind Perennial Farm.

I really liked this place.  The prices of there plants were a good one to two dollars higher than the other nurseries ( we didn’t buy anything here- good thing it was our last stop), but the inspiration gained was worth the drive.

They have wonderful winding paths and a beautiful yellow magnolia tree.

Chickens and goats inhabit this farm.  There is also a cute cattle dog with the bluest eyes who drops sticks at your feet in hopes that you’ll throw them.

The barn has been unaltered (the cattle stalls till have the leads and ropes hanging by the feed troughs) and you can sit a spell in the silo.  Such a pretty place.  They had a particular annual That I didn’t buy and wished I had.  I may be driving the two hours down  just to get my hot little hands on it.  I better see if they have any left before I hit the road.

Evelyn is game for another road trip!