Northeast Gardening: What is your favorite local nursery to visit?, 0 by rcn48

rcn48 wrote:
Been following along as I'm always looking for nurseries to check out along the way when traveling from Virginia to Maine at least once a year.

While living in Maine, every spring we'd travel to Mass to visit nurseries and attend the NEWFS open house. It was such a source of inspiration at that time of the year since Mass was usually about a month ahead of us and we were still experiencing "mud season" ! One of my favorite places to visit was Newbury Perennial Gardens in Byfield. Of course we always checked out New England Bonsai and Weston Nurseries but found alot of smaller nurseries as well. After all my years of living in New England, finally got to stop by Logee's last fall during one of their open house weekends. I've purchased alot of plants from them in the past but it was a thrill to actually visit!

I've enjoyed reading People, Places and Plants ever since Paul Tukey started it as a magazine for "Maine Gardeners". They've really grown since then and now even have their own television program which I faithfully watch every Sunday morning on HGTV.

Prairie: here's a link from their website that might help you find some nurseries: http://www.newenglandgardening.com/resources/centers/ma.html...

Here's a picture of Brunnera macrophylla 'Variegata' that I bought at Newbury Perennials at least 8 years ago. A variegated Brunnera was really hard to find back then and I just had to bring it with me when I moved to Virginia!