Annual Fall Visit to Todd's Nursry

Todd's is a great nursery and only a 30 minute drive from home but for some reason, it falls off my nursery radar until we visit the pumpkin patches on the same road each fall. Every time we visit, I vow to return in the spring and summer but haven't.  2016 will be the year! Here's a taste of the huge selection of fab offerings.

Driveway is dressed for the season!

One of Todd's specialties is water features and there is a great ever-changing display of drilled rocks with cascading water on one side of the parking lot.  Love this one with all of the moss!

Shimmering in the light.  Perhaps next spring we'll add something like this to our garden.

A nice selection from which to choose.

Fall, winter, and spring are when evergreens really shine.  

 This was the first grove of Phyllostachys vivax I ever saw many years ago.  While they've reduced it in size a bit since then, it still holds a special place in my heart.

Interesting use of what might be a Christmas tree topper.

There are also glass panels with incredible prices (lower than the materials cost wholesale!)

Hmm...Loree's Ornamental Kale and Cabbage challenge ends on November first.  

Groovy combinations.

Very well stocked for this time of year and with a sale going on...

Fifty percent off all tropicals.  If only I had a greenhouse.  O wait, I do!

Hummingbirds in the perennial area are a sign of a great nursery!

Those who don't believe in agaves will never find them. 

Hydrangea Lemon Wave has gorgeous foliage and so so flowers but you can always clip them off. 

Speaking of foliage, autumn is making it's presence known!

Don't know the name of this Pinus but the 30 foot specimen caught the rays of the sun beautifully. Oh to have enough space to grow every gorgeous tree!

Part of a large stream that flows through the property.

This little guy was sure enjoying skipping stones.

More foliage

More water.

A working/storage area on some of the acreage at the back of  the nursery and gardens.  Look at that great bamboo!

A great place for a stroll which might keep the non-gardener with whom you live busy for a while. 

Happy koi in the pond near the gumball machine full of fish food.  Great activity for kids of all ages.

The jury's still out on these. Maybe in the right context...

Clever use of ladders. The niece in Alaska might need one of those dragonflies.  

I found a few more spring bulbs (ten percent off already!) to add to the not-yet-planted collection.  

Dahlia in one of the gardens surrounding two sides of the parking area.  So fresh and delicate looking, it has no idea that it's time to stop blooming.  Dahlias are quirky that way.

Next spring and summer, I'll definitely visit Todd's!  Really, I mean it this time.  Do you have nurseries in your area that you kick yourself for not visiting more often?

Todd's Nursery

 

Is there a nursery that you visit far to seldom?  For me, Todd's Nursery is one of those.  It's a wonderful and huge place very close to a couple of pumpkin patches that we often visit in the fall.  Each time I visit  this late in the season, I vow to do so more frequently during spring and summer.  

 

This is a large establishment that has paths that seem to wend on forever through fabulous plant offerings.

Must go back in winter to see this gorgeous acer palmatum's bare limbs. 

So much gorgeous autumn color! 

None of my pictures  captured the vibrant glow of  this cotinus.  So gorgeous that it almost jumped into the car. 

Fun project idea.

Is this cute or what? 

Love this smaller size too.

Can you imagine walking through all of this loveliness while plant shopping?

If you're lucky, you may run into this handsome fellow who is a remarkably friendly rooster!

A series of bridges cross a creek at various points and lead further back toward a huge pond, man made, I think with resident fowl and a very impressive bamboo grove.

Park like in areas,  natural feeling in others, this would be a special garden in which to live.  add to that the wonderful nursery and it truly is a gardener's paradise.

Sorry about the dearth of images of the plants for sale.  You can see more from last year's visit here.

One of Todd's specialties is water features and koi.  Here are a few of these moving jewels.

I was particularly smitten with the one in the center of this picture.  It was a beautiful color approaching lime green.  You really can't tell the color from the images but the color was highly unusual.  I don't think these, in the show pond  are for sale.  Must go back and visit this handsome chap! 

Interesting collection.  Todd's has been in operation since 1960 and continues to be a very special place. 

 

I was forced to bring home a Daphne × transatlantica  'Summer Ice.' It seduced me with it's fresh, sweetly scented blooms.  Who wouldn't fall for a Daphne that's easy to grow and blooms from April through November?  Fall is a great time to visit nurseries, take advantage of sales, and get lots of planting done!