Plant and Gnome, online, mail order, ornamental trees, shrubs, perennials, floral products, christmas wreaths

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.

Thank you for all of your Spring orders and keeping us ticking over in the summer.. We are very pleased to continue to make connections with some wonderful people all over the Eastern US and Midwest. Look at our Plant Price List to see what is immediately available in containers for Fall Shipping. If you see something on our old list or on our plant description pages, we may have it in small quantities. We will soon upload our Winter 09 Spring 10 Price List including bare root items and willow cuttings.

Some thoughts on Fall Planting, especially for are northern customers.

While we have numerous plants that make and immediate effect in the Fall, eg Callicarpa or 'Beauty Berry' we think it most advantageous for our northern customers to be thinking ahead to next Spring. If you live north of us, its a good time to purchase and plant now, plants that bloom early like Abeliophylum, and Willows for Catkins. If you purchase these in the Spring, they may have bloomed for us before you want to plant or receive them; as we do not ship from a cold store. While the plant is still good, you miss out on bloom until next year. We also recommend planting male pollinators of winterberry. We often supply these to customers who have previously planted female varieties and never had fruit set. As 'winterberry' flowers early it is best if the pollinator is in sync with your own plants.

All our plants are grown outside and hardy, they usually have been threw 2 winters. Most plants have sufficiently large enough rootballs that they will not suffer from frost heave. We do not recommend tender first year growth plants or small plugs for fall planting. We recommend that plants are planted 6 weeks before the first frost. Sometimes the Fall can be a dry time, so do remember to water.

For those interested in our adventures with Bees, our first year is going very well.

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.

Order with Confidence 2009 is our 8th 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 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.