Welcome to Plant and Gnome

Plant and Gnome is a garden nursery with growing locations in Charleston and  Gilmer County in central West Virginia,  USA. From this website or by mail order you can purchase an eclectic mixture of bare root, (Dec.-Mar.); and containerized ornamental trees and, shrubs; and have them shipped to your door.. We also sell willow cuttings, (Dec.-Mar.), and Live Green Christmas wreaths. In Charleston and Central WV we also undertake landscape installations.

  We are excited about a new year of creation and possibility ahead. We have some new varieties in our updated plant list for Shipping in 2010.

For local Charleston WV Customers we are consolidating our nursery stock from Glenville to Charleston. We will start selling at the Capital Market in April. We have many plants that we do not list on here, large B&B plants suitable for your landscape installation needs,  perennials and 'disease resistant' fruit trees.

Chris will be a featured speaker at this year's Garden Festival on March 27th at the Culture Center adjacent to the State Capital in Charleston. The festival runs from 8 30 to 3pm  with multiple garden related vendors and four garden talks.

9-10am: 'The Winter Garden' - Extend your garden year - Chris.

10 30 - 11 30 am: 'Cultivating Community Gardens' - John Porter

12-1pm: 'Sustaining a floral and evergreen landscape in the gardens' - Bill Shanklin

1 30 - 2 30pm: 'Landscaping WITH Nature: How to Animal Proof your Garden' - David Daehnke

2009 beehives are doing well, we are enjoying basket making, planning a timber frame/straw bale house; and working on our edible 'forest garden'. We hope to add some more pictures as always to the website. If you don't find your answer here please e-mail your question. We wish you well in all your endeavors.

Happy gardening, Chris. Chief Executive Gnome

Who is the Gnome behind the e-mails and phone ?

Chris  planting bulbs with school children, and relaxing  with master broom maker Kurt Noble at the WV State Folk Festival in Glenville; Chris on left.

We think our prices especially with the unbeatable value of fixed shipping fee of only $8 on any order are pretty good. Check out our price list, some varieties of  willow cuttings 5 for $4 ! Bare root season allows us to send larger plants, that you would normally find potted into 3 gallon pots. With our nursery consolidation we can offer some extra deals.

Bare root special offers, can only be sent until Mid March:

 Willow/Dogwood Package. 4 plants for the price of 3! Plants normally priced @ $7 each for 3-4ft plants. Pick any of these verities in any combination, all of the same variety or mixed and only pay $21.Choose from Salix chaenomeloides (Japanese Pussy Willow), Salix koriyanagi ‘Rubykins’, Salix purpurea ‘Streamco’, Salix ‘Sekka’ (Japanese Fan Tail Willow), and Cornus sericea (Red Twig Dogwood)

5 Callicarpa dichotoma ‘Early Amythyst’, 18-24’’ cut back plants, large root spread, normally $12, for $45.

5 Viburnum plicatum tormentosum ‘Pink Beauty’, 30-42’’, 12’’ root spread, normally $12 each, for $50. These plants make great individual specimens when mature or can be planted as a screening hedge.

5 Ponicirus trifoliata, 18-24’’, normally $7 each, for $30. These plants make great individual specimens when mature or can be planted as a screening hedge.

4 Blueberry Plants, 12- 18’’, normally $9 each. Pick any of these verities in any combination, all of the same variety or mixed and only pay $30. Choose from Duke, Blueray, Jersey or Elliot.

5 Blackberry ‘Ebony King’, nearly thorn less good producer, for $20.

5 Raspberry ‘Heritage’, red ever bearing, for $20.

You can buy multiples of any special offer package.

Order with Confidence  2010 is our 9th year of selling online. We hope to meet your expectations in personal friendly service, with an emphasis on good communication; and the quality of plants. (People frequently tell us we do, and we have many loyal return customers. Please also reference the link to the GardenWatchdog / Daves Garden, to get the scoop on Plant and Gnome, http://davesgarden.com/gwd/c/2494/  The Garden Watchdog is an independent rating system for online nurseries.)

E-mail or phone in your order and we will issue an order acknowledgement, and confirm shipping date. Payment can be made by PayPal or check.

We ship bare root plans and cuttings, ( Nov.- Mar.), and container plants year round subject to weather conditions and the occasional holiday.

We have a fixed Plant Shipping Rate of $8.00 PER ORDER to the following Eastern and Midwest  US States:

ME, VT, NH, NY, MA, RI, CT, NJ, PA, OH, MI, WI, IL, IN, KY, WV, MD, DE, VA, NC, SC, GA, AL, AK,  TN, MO, KS. ( The fixed shipping rate is easy for you to calculate and serves as your discount on bulk orders. For shipping expense, complications and plant compatibility issues, we like to limit our shipping to these States. We do relent on this policy occasionally).

Plants are packaged in cardboard cartons. We usually send shipments on Mondays or Tuesdays to avoid plants spending unnecessary time in transit.