 | | Nurseries | | Selecting A Nursery | Garden enthusiasts who want only the best products as well as reliable horticultural advice concerning these products shop at real nurseries. These establishments are usually staffed by actual horticulturists who are very familiar with the material that is marketed.
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 | | Nurseries | | Bonfante Garden Nursery | Bonfante Gardens, a theme park which celebrates trees, is a beautiful garden nursery theme park in Gilroy California. This park features everything one might expect from a theme park, as well as attractions of special horticultural interest.
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 | | Nurseries | | Yerba Buena Nursery | Yerba Buena Nursery has specialized almost exclusively in California native plant species and ferns since 1960. Although most of the commonly available plant species can not be found here, many of the more rare native species can be. Yerba Buena Nursery is for garden enthusiasts who enjoy nurseries.
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 | | Nurseries | | Garden Conservancy | The Garden Conservancy was developed in 1989 as a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of America’s exceptional private gardens and facilitation of transition from private to independent, not-for-profit ownership.
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 | | Nurseries | | Tour des Fleurs | Guests to the Tour des Fleurs may select from six package tours which include visits to three each of the eleven hosting horticultural establishments. Most of us are familiar with cut flowers available in retail markets; but few have seen acres of them!
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 | | Nurseries | | Rhododendrons At Bay Laurel Nursery | Rhododendrons at Bay Laurel Nursery in Scott’s Valley are grown locally and slowly. Rhododendrons and citrus were my favorites of all the horticultural crops that I have been involved with. Like bamboo, Japanese maples, bare-root fruit trees and most roses, rhodies and citrus are best grown by specialty growers who can accommodate their cultural preferences.
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 | | Nurseries | | Bay Laurel Nursery | Bay Laurel Nursery is perhaps the most interesting nursery I know of. Rhododendrons are the primary crop of this nursery in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. The landscape also includes many field grown specimens and companion plant species. Story by Tony Tomeo.
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