Gardening Adventures-From the Ground Up Perennials

WOW. We stumbled upon Gardening Adventures while driving through Verona on the Friday prior to Memorial Day weekend. I am just beginning to put in perennial gardens around our house and I can guarantee that we will be coming back to these lovely ladies’ gardens again and again. The prices are fantastic, the plants are gorgeous and healthy, and I love that you can see everything they sell beautifully displayed in their mature backyard gardens. Knowing that the wide variety of plants are hardy for our weather is also fantastic. Even better than that, this is a business that sprouted from two friends’ love of gardening.
We first stopped at Karen’s gardens, where she sells mostly trees, shrubs, lilies and a variety of flowering plants. After some very helpful discussion about what we were looking for, she helped us decide to go with a couple of white pines and a Thuja Giant Arbor Vitae for screening. I also picked up the first of what will be many of their gorgeous day lilies. She then directed us to Sharon’s garden for hostas and ground cover (she also has most of the grasses and some other flowering plants). Sharon walked us around her mature gardens and helped us chose flowering ground cover for a difficult location. We went with two types and we also picked up a Clematis and four types of hosta.
They said their inventory had been hit pretty hard after their big sale on the weekend prior. I really look forward to seeing what things look like before that sale, because it seemed to me like they had TONS of plants to choose from.
There’s really not much more that I can ask for than to buy from local, knowledgeable people doing what they love. If you’re at all interested in planting perennials in the Madison area and haven’t checked out Gardening Adventures, you’re missing out.