Online Nurseries 2000 - Crownsville Nursery - Bridgewood Gardens
The last nursery in the spring 2000 series is two nurseries in one. The Crownsville Nursery has been growing great plants since 1979 when they started as a local garden center. Bridgewood Gardens is their retail outlet and their online Hosta heaven. There are so many plants to tell you about, as well as both nurseries, that I've broken this into three parts so that the pages have a chance to load in your life-time.
The Crownsville Nursery and Bridgewood Garden are owned by Dave Bowman, (in charge of most perennials and woodies) Chick Wasitis, (who handles the hosta end) and Jennifer Wasitis (who runs the garden center).
A few years after The Crownsville Nursery garden center got going, they started shipping plants mailorder. In 1986, they moved to their present location and opened up Bridgewood Gardens as a garden center, making The Crownsville Nursery mailorder only. About five or six years ago, the Hosta collection began to grow so large that it required its own catalog, which is under the Bridgewood Gardens umbrella.
As they put it, "Just to confuse everyone a bit more, Bridgewood Gardens is also the name of our retail nursery in Annapolis, Maryland, which carries most of the plants in both mail-order catalogs plus many others."
The retail garden center also features annuals, some gardening antiques and other goodies. Not all the plants listed in the catalogs will be found there at any one time, as the stock changes as the season progresses. They've also discovered that, being a small operation, they can't handle people placing orders online or via mail or fax and wanting to pick them up at Bridgewood Gardens...there just aren't enough bodies to make this feasible. All the plants are grown, packed and shipped and all the paperwork handled by the three of them.
The Crownsville Nursery
PO Box 797
Crownsville, MD 21032
Phone Orders: 410 849 3143
Fax Orders: 410 849 3427
Email:Orders: orders@crownsvillenursery.com Questions or comments: dave@crownsvillenursery.com
I have ordered plants from The Crownsville Nursery over the years and been well-pleased with them; they were the first mailorder source I found for Euphorbia characias in the US, about ten years ago.
The web site plant descriptions and photos are divided into three main categories; Perennials (hardy perennials, including daylilies, hosta and salvia), Woody Ornamentals (trees, shrubs and vines) and their new section for Tropicals and Tender Perennials (lust-making cannas, coleus and taros). There's also a text only listing of plants for those who know what they're looking for and are in a hurry - a feature all online nurseries ought to have - but you shouldn't miss the images - most excellent photographs of a goodly number of the plants. Thumbnails are provided in the descriptive text as well as three galleries for hydrangeas, coleus and salvias - all linking to larger images.
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