GET THE BEST BABIES FOR YOUR NURSERY

Caring for plants in your green house nursery is much like caring for a small child. Needing constant attention and care, you get tremendous satisfaction when your little charges grow up healthy and strong. There is really no better feeling that seeing the plants you once knew only as seeds, growing and flourishing in your nursery.

When you are buying your nursery plant stock, be prepared to have your jaw drop in amazement at the wide variety of plants and flowers available in your commercial nursery supplier, especially if the nursery owner is adept at cross breeding. The plants that are created by these people are outstanding.

American Nursery and Landscape Association members have many benefits and their facilities have to meet certain requirements. You may want to check for membership in the ANLA; if you're looking for a nursery where the owners know about the products they sell.





It's More Than Flowers…
A good selection of healthy fruit trees, shade trees and shrubs are also available at most nurseries and if you’re looking for quality hostas and variegated plants a nursery is where you will want to go.

A nursery is becoming the place to go for herbs and spices as well. A larger nursery grows their own and works on special blends that they can test in their own kitchens before offering to sell either the spice or the plants so you too can grow them at home.






If you need lawn decorations and plant stands as well as other decorative items, the nursery usually carries them as well. You may not own a shepherd hook but when you really want that beautiful hanging basket and have nowhere to hang it, if the nursery sells the hooks, you will probably buy the plant and the hook.

Visiting a nursery can save you a lot of time and the effort of growing your own plants from seed and most offer some sort of guarantee that their plants will grow and produce. That guarantee is something you’ll never have with plants started from seed in your basement.

Plants and seeds available from an on-line nursery can be a gamble even if the nursery has a stellar reputation. The condition of the plants will hinge on the delivery company's devotion to customer service.