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This site is still in the building phase. There are no plants listed for sale here yet. I'm working on it but I doubt that I'll have any here until spring. If you go to the Facebook Hosta Auction group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/234948170600115/ , you'll find hostas offered by me along with those of many other hybridizers, nurseries, and collectors.
How it came to this:
My wife Jennifer, our partner Dave Bowman and I closed the Crownsville Nursery and its hosta division Bridgewood Gardens a few years back after more than 40 years of growing unusual perennials and hostas.
When we retired Jennifer and I moved from Virginia to Maryland and I vowed never to sell plants again. After a couple years of that, I got bored and started selling plants again. I didn't like working hard seven days a week and I'm not crazy about retirement either, I started selling on the Facebook Hosta Auction group.
I only list a few plants a week in the spring and early summer, but they will be varieties you probably won't see anywhere else. The plants I sell now are my own introductions and streaked seedlings, and maybe some plants from my gardens that I did not introduce. Instead of shipping hundreds of plants a week during busy season in my former life, now I consider it a busy week if I ship 10.
I apologize for what follows, but I don't have much to do in the winter, so to entertain myself I sit at the computer and write this stuff.
The Crownsville Nursery/Bridgewood Gardens
in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
1979-2021
RIP
Back when I couldn't control myself.
Seven of the cold frames and the three shade houses were packed with hostas . I just couldn't help it.
Hostas and perennials waiting for the little brown truck on a busy spring day
Sometimes it was hard to find good help out in the country, but every once in a while someone came along who could handle almost any job.
Others didn't work out as well.
Packing can be pretty boring.
And some of us had more fun than others.
This was not staged. Maggie actually jumped up on my back and stayed long enough for Dave to get the picture. Lily wanted to know why she couldn't get up there too.
Xena just back from the groomer.
You probably shouldn't have white dogs if you work in dirt.
Awww, it's a puppy! This was Xena in 2015
All this was just an excuse to show off my dogs.
Obviously we're Westie people.
I still can't control myself. This is about half of my new "nursery", near Prince Frederick, Maryland.
Pretty primitive and quite a bit smaller, but I enjoy being out under the trees.
It's quiet and peaceful - 'cept durin' huntin' season.
All of my sales are through the internet.
I'm sorry but this is a one-man show and I can't accommodate telephone or in-person sales.
I'm down to one small cold frame now.
But how many of you have your own tobacco barn?
Ok, I'm done for now.