Growing Quality Hostas Since 1979

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Hostas are easy to grow perennials grown primarily for their colorful foliage.  They thrive in light shade and can survive for decades with little or no care.

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Our 1986 Catalog

We began growing hostas in 1979 when we opened our first garden center, The Crownsville Nursery. In 1984 we mailed our first perennial catalog.  Click here to see an image of our first two-page mail order hosta list, published in 1986.

 
A Blog for Hosta Geeks

I've started a hosta blog.  There's not much there yet, but I'll be working on it as fast as I can. Click here to take a look.  If you would like to subscribe, click on "Entries RSS" in the right column.

Repellex Systemic Tablets

A New Approach to Deer
and Vole Problems

These tablets make the entire plant, from roots to flowers, taste like hot pepper, discouraging, voles, field mice, rabbits, and deer, virtually any mammal, from feeding on the plant leaves or roots.  The plant even gives off a faint pepper smell that the critters will learn to avoid. 

Apply just once a year.  Completely safe and non-poisonous.

Click here for more information.
2012 Open Houses

Open House this year will be June 8, 9, and 10 and again July 22, 23, and 24.  Like the last three years, we will keep things pretty simple - no big displays, no carnival rides, no catered barbecue.  Just hostas. Lots of hostas. We are only open for retail sales two weekends a year, so facilities are minimal. We can give you a soft drink or bottle of water and a cookie, that's about it

But even though we do not have a customer friendly facility, we do have thousands of hostas. There aren't too many places you can find hundreds of different varieties of hostas for sale. We'll also have hardy ferns, perennials and whatever else we find lying around.  Plus we'll have many of our streaked seedlings available and our new and future introductions on display.

We hope you can attend.  It's the only time of year we're open for visits.  If it's too far for a day trip there are plenty of places to stay overnight.  We know that there is a limit to how far a rational person will drive to see thousands of hostas, we're just not sure what that limit should be.

If you get tired of hostas, we're just a few miles from the Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive, a bit more than an hour from Washington, DC and Baltimore. Close by we have antiques, hiking trails, and beautiful scenery.  And we have three friendly dogs for your spouse to pet while you're looking at hostas.


Interested in perennials, shrubs and
vines, and more ferns?
Visit our other on-line catalog
  www.crownsvillenursery.com

We are sorry, but we are unable to ship plants to AK, AZ, CA, HI, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY or outside the U.S.

Plants shipped to these states must be shipped bare-root (by State law except for AL and HI).  We ship all plants in pots, and the time and expense involved in bare-rooting make it impractical.  We are sorry, but we are unable to comply with these requirements and we cannot ship to these states.

This is Maggie, in charge of moving bulk materials and barking at things.

A warning to casual Hosta users:

Many of us, when we first started using Hostas, thought we could stop whenever we wanted. What begins as casual experimentation can quickly develop into a serious addiction. If you find that you actually want to know the differences between ‘Inniswood’ and ‘Paul’s Glory’, if you tell your spouse that you paid less than you really did for a new introduction, but brag to other gardeners that you paid more, or if you no longer care what your spouse thinks, you need help.

Help is available from Bridgewood Gardens, a nursery that specializes in caring for gardeners afflicted with Hostas.

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