Cottage Garden: Where Plant Excitement Rains!

Last Saturday, I spent 4 hours in Piasa, Illinois (just outside of Alton) sourcing unique plant material for a client's containers.  If you're a plantaholic like me, take the short trip to Cottage Garden, I guarantee you'll love this nursery!

Here is an article I first published on the blog, Gardening Gone Wild, June 21, 2009.   

In Fran Sorin’s March 4, 2009 post ‘Favorite Seed and Plant Mail Order Sources: From our GGW Contributors’ Fine Gardening magazine's Steve Silk and I both mentioned Cottage Garden in southwestern Illinois as a ‘favorite’ mail order resource for their vast range of unique plants. Fortunately, I live about 45 minutes from Cottage Garden. My visits there are always informative and inspirational. I feel a more detailed post is appropriate.

For over twenty years, Chris Kelley and her husband Bill have worked to create a popular destination nursery just outside Saint Louis, Missouri. They specialize in plants that really work in our hot and humid summer climate with cold winters. Their selection of tropical plants is impressive . . . [read more]