Benefits of Buying Plants at Local Nurseries

Why shopping at your local plant nursery could mean greater success for your garden

It's the start of a new year and soon you'll want to begin planning your garden. Come spring, you will be busy planting, watering, and seeing signs of early success especially if you start this winter with your local plant nursery.

While big box garden centers seem to flourish with color and variety, the truth is, you can't be sure how those plants will do in your area. Zone research is helpful but even regions have microclimates and natural events that can make growth challenging. Plants are fickle and those big box stores only have to ensure that the plant lives a week or two outside. Local nurseries have tended to their selection of plants in that specific local environment already. Our plants not only experience ideal greenhouse environment but also get to experience the great outdoors. That's right, we let our plants live outside in the real world long before they get to you. 

Local nurseries, like ours, know the plant from seed or seedling all the way until it's sale. We can determine when certain plants aren't healthy or fit for sale. Big stores are only concerned with the outer appearance of the plant. Our attention to care even deep in the roots, results in resistence to disease. 

Local nurseries already play an active role in the local ecosystem. By shopping through a local nursery, like ours or one local to you, you're calling on that ecosystem to help pollinate and protect your garden as well.

So as you begin to think about your garden in the next coming weeks, consider a local nursery as an investment in your plants' future.