By Tammy Field, Dundee Nursery Grower
Nothing is better than the burst of color or the explosion of fragrance that greets you when walking into a neighborhood nursery and garden center in May.
Wait a minute…there is something better. How about that same beautiful garden center in all its glory with plants grown right there by that same garden center?
Dundee Nursery has its own growing facility for each of their two locations in Plymouth and Hutchinson, MN, with tens of thousands of square feet dedicated to growing annuals…and that’s good news for you, the gardener.
Doing our own growing means we have employees who have intimate knowledge of the specific growing needs of your plants. At the Hutchinson location our retail sales staff steps out of our growing greenhouses onto the sales floor bringing that knowledge right to you – the local gardener. We know from experience what that gazania needs to give you a season-long pop of color or what you can do to assure that your bacopa blooms continuously.
Dundee greenhouse growers at each location not only bring years of experience in growing individual plants, but also experience in designing combinations for your pots, baskets, and containers. While many garden centers bring in nice combination baskets or pots (sometimes from us, as we are wholesalers as well!) we Dundee growers annually design combinations that are spectacular showpieces for your home as well as easy for you to maintain. Our staff is very skilled at translating that experience into the ability to help you make your own combinations and coordinate those pots with your overall garden design. Like landscape designers for your yard, we are designers for your pots, baskets, and gardens. We can tell you that Goldilocks Lysmachia may be a better trailing plant for your shady window box than Chambray Verbena or how many Bubblegum petunia plants you need so they don’t overwhelm the Sweet Tart Millionbells in your personally designed basket.
We are also wholesale growers. We provide our homegrown product to other garden centers and to groups for fundraisers from the Twin Cities to the South Dakota border. Those garden centers are looking for high quality plants at a reasonable cost. What we grow, they want! That says a lot about our product.
Friendly Experts…Local Grow-How. It’s not just a catch phrase, it’s who we are.
See you at Dundee in Plymouth and in Hutchinson.
Greenhouse photos courtesy of John Weidman. All rights reserved.