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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.
    
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.
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.
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.
  
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