Nurseries
The merchants listed here are located in upstate NY and sell primarily plants they have grown themselves.
- Bakers' Acres of North Lansing
Bakers' Acres began as a modest, family business for Bob and Jackie Baker and their daughter, Reenie Baker Sandsted in 1980. Today it is one of the largest herb and perennial growers in Central New York, as well as offering annuals, everlastings, trees, shrubs, apples, cider and garden supplies and gifts. - Catskill Native Nursery
"Catskill Native Nursery specializes in nursery-propagated North American perennials, fruits, shrubs and trees. Come and browse - you might be surprised at the unique beauty and garden worthiness of our native flora. If you would simply like to learn more about gardening with native plants, feel free just to visit the display gardens around the 150 year old farm house where we are located in semi-rural upstate New York. Most are a mix of native and non-native plants. We also have a native-only dry shade garden, the beginnings of a prairie between the zig-zag fence and Samsonville Road, a native-only butterfly garden, and a native fruit orchard featuring Pawpaws, a Meader Persimmon, Blueberries, Dwarf Lingonberry, Serviceberries, and an Illinois Everbearing Mulberry. In Spring of ‘05 we hope to begin work on a garden modeled after a Catskill rocky summit plant community with scrub oak, lowbush blueberry, sweet fern, common juniper, bearberry, three-toothed cinquefoil, Pennsylvania sedge and others." - Cummins Nursery
"Cummins Nursery is a small, family-run fruit tree nursery located in the beautiful Finger Lakes district of western New York. From Ashmead's Kernel to Zabergau; From the newest of the new to the oldest of the old; Dwarf to full sized; We either have it or we will do our best to graft it for you." - Der Rosenmeister
"We are a specialty nursery dedicated to providing the best cold-hardy, disease-resistant roses for zones 4 and 5 and all the information needed to grow them. We approach life, gardening, and roses with passion, and enjoy sharing this passion with fellow gardeners. Our love of all aspects of growing roses is what started us in business and keeps our business expanding each year." - Graceful Gardens, Cottage Garden Perennials, Annuals and Delphiniums
A selection of English cottage garden plants for the home gardener at wholesale prices from a nursery in Mecklenburg, NY. - Hawthorn Hill Farm... the daylily garden of dick & sandy deRosa
"Hawthorn Hill Farm is located five miles from the upstate New York village of Cooperstown. We were bitten by the daylily bug about four years ago and now have an exponentially increasing collection that will most likely hit three hundred by the end of the summer. Our aim is not to have the largest collection in the world. Rather, it is to grow and offer plants that we like at an affordable price, primarily to our friends and neighbors locally. We are particularly interested in daylily history and are making a concerted effort to collect species, their variants, and as many of the earliest cultivars as possible. Otherwise, we let our taste dictate what we add to the collection. In addition to daylilies, we grow lots of perennials, have started an heirloom apple tree collection, and are happily saddled with an ever-increasing array of hardy climbing roses. Our large organic vegetable garden sits in the middle of the garden and more often than not visitors walk away with some free produce packed in with their daylilies. Benches and chairs are randomly littered about the place so that people can either rest in the shade while we are digging up their plants or just sit and enjoy the place. When we are both retired [two years], we will line the paths in the woods beyond the upper meadow with wildflowers and ferns native to the northeast. We are a completely organic operation, a choice rooted in a philosophical way of looking at the world and our relationship with it. " - North Country Daylilies and Longlesson Angus
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY, which is east of the Hudson River in the foothills of the Green Mountains, in a solid zone 4 location--a good test for daylily hardiness. - Seneca Hill Perennials
Located in Oswego, NY, this mail-order nursery has unusual perennials and a few shrubs and trees, most of which are hardy in Zone 4. Visitors are welcome on Open Days listed in the catalog and on the website. If you wish to stop in at another time, please call before visiting. - St. Lawrence Nurseries
"Propagating new and old varieties of cold- hardy edible plants and making them available to growers in northern climates." Mentioned here and in other entries in the blog. - The Plantsmen Nursery
"You’ll love our 11 scenic acres with nursery grounds, display gardens, woods, ponds, wetlands, and our unique koi urn--just a few minutes from Ithaca in the picturesque Finger Lakes Region. We also encourage you to think about where you buy your plants, and how and where they are grown. The Plantsmen is a nursery in the old-fashioned sense. We raise plants here. Plants you buy from us have been in the nursery, under our care, for months and in some cases over a year. We're growing more shrubs, small trees, ferns, perennials, grasses and the greatest selection of native plants in Central NY. You'll continue to find plants you won’t see elsewhere, including annuals and tropicals (bananas), but with a greater overall emphasis on hardiness to USDA Zone 5 and colder." Featured in Horticulture's "On the Road" column in the October 2006 issue (Northeast edition). - White Oak Nursery, Native Trees & Shrubs
White Oak Nursery has been propagating and growing over 80 species of native shade trees and native flowering shrubs since 1995. W.O.N. grows the majority of woody species that are native to the northeastern United States plus the best ornamental trees from around the world. This choice of species allows you to design complete landscapes entirely with native plants but also to establish complete plant communities that benefit native wildlife. Visits to the nursery are by appointment, generally on weekends or evenings. Please try to give at least 2 days' notice when you would like to visit the nursery.
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Cummins Nursery:
Fruit tree nursery in Ithaca, NY. Specializes in custom grafting on specialty rootstocks. Family owned and operated. Highly recommended!