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Quackin' Grass Nursery will during the summer of 2012 announce our new
website. In the meantime check out our availability on the Plant
page, link above. The 2012 Availability List, our Catalog
Availability and Collectors Corner can be accessed there. Our 2012
hours are now posted on the Contact Us and Directions links also
above.
In
late summer of this year you,
our intrepid plant lovers, may opt to shop our on-line store from the
comfort of your homes. All of you will always be welcome to visit us
at Quackin' Grass Nursery to stroll our display gardens and purchase
plants at the nursery on site. But your options will soon expand to
include home delivery of the rare, different and unusual plants you
have come to expect from us. Until then, all the very best to you
from the staff at Quackin' Grass Nursery. Stay tuned...
Rebirth of House #3
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Courtesy C. R. Westerberg
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Quackin'
Grass Nursery, located in the handsome town of Brooklyn, CT, is a
nursery for all seasons. Nestled in a beautiful, rustic setting
replete with historic stone walls we offer a vast array of hardy
plants, herbaceous and woody. From Alstroemeria to Zenobia our
selection is hard to beat. If unusual plants are your passion we
have many rare and hard-to-find gems available. From desert to
pond we carry plants for every garden environment. Remember, too,
from the novice to the most experienced of gardeners there is
something here for everyone.
When the ordinary is
unacceptable there is Quackin' Grass Nursery. Come and be
enchanted.
We are now in our tenth
season. This nursery has distinguished itself in that half of the
grounds are devoted to display gardens filled with interesting and
often rare plants. These display gardens which double as propagation
stock have grown and developed increasing the beauty of the nursery in
all seasons.
We
are an oasis carved out of the surrounding woodland. Please click on
the following link to better understand our green philosophies and
efforts to enhance insect and bird life in and around the nursery...
Click Here For Our Green Philosophies
Quackin'
Grass is a seasonal nursery with doors opening the 1st Saturday in
April and closing November 1st. We are open Thursdays through
Mondays each and every week during the growing season. We are
closed to the public Tuesdays and Wednesdays. If other
arrangements are needed please call us:
(860) 779-1732
Please Note : We do
not ship plants. All sales are on site.

(The
following is an excerpt from "ARMCHAIR GARDENING"by Wayne Paquette)
Gardens
are temporal. They are music for the eyes. The act of gardening is the
dance that shapes the music. Our shovels: batons through which we
conduct our earthly symphonies. Each rose bush, peach and fern we plant
in cool, moist soil is a note on the parchment of earth. As we wipe
sweat from our brows each string of plants forms fragment of theme, a
lyrical phrase. Each completed string juxtaposed against another string
of bloodroot, persimmon and ninebark is counterpoint. The completed
garden is a rendition of a movement in the larger multi-movement opus
of our landscapes.
Our
gardens stride through time as do we. The circadian rhythms flow in and
out of our gardens, our lives. We are of these rhythms. We are of, by
and about a temporal world. We are notes on the larger score of the
Earth. We are a chorus of cacophony and joy, a sonorous band marching
in complex rhythm, drumbeat and trombone. We are the stuff of this
Earth, orchard, forest and corn row.
Compose.
Create. Conduct the landscape… note to paper, plant to soil. Glissando
waterfalls of weeping redbud, katsura and pendulous pine. Legato
stretches of juniper, lamium, bugleweed, heath. Staccato pointillism of
baby’s breath, lily pads and ornamental onion. Arpeggios of phlomis and
pagoda dogwood.
…There exist so many
plants that display strong interest in many and every season. In
today’s smaller
gardens it is essential to choose the musical notes we paint to score
based on multi-seasonal appeal. Learn to envision plants with a mind
towards small groups moving together through time. Master this
discipline and through plant combinations your garden’s design will
become stronger, more vibrant and expressive. Our gardens can shine
throughout the year. We can make it happen. Are there are not earthly
blessings in all seasons? Exercise the audacity to take advantage of
each and every one. We can construct counterpoint replete with rests
and swells, trumpets and tympani, cello and piccolo. Our songs reside
in the depths of who we are. The music is rich within us. Close your
eyes. Search, center, focus…
Now
compose. Create. Conduct the landscape… baton at the ready? Dance!
Metronomic pulsing of miscanthus and bluestem in the breeze. Quiescent
rests of pools and ponds. Sonorous chords of red cedar. Mounding
crescendo of vetch to viburnum to birch to redwood. Applause of dried
leaves in the oak and privet, and the arrhythmic nods of approval from
northern sea oats in the wind…
…Earthly
blessings are gift, a joy in every season. All we need do is recognize
each and every one. Among the many blessings of winter is that we can
sit back and enjoy our gardens from the comfort of our homes. There are
no weeds to pull, no heavy lifting of trees balled and sheathed in
burlap, no hoses to maneuver in blistering heat, no back-breaking
digging of rock-filled holes with our dependable shovels… our batons
rest in this season.
Peering through a
frost-edged window or kicking, dancing through the snow, looking over
the splendid
work we have accomplished, the music we have created – chords,
counterpoint and soaring themes in complex harmony. Consider changes,
additions and extension that we will implement in the promise of the
new season ahead. Ponder the whole, half and eighth notes that could
be, the rising and falling lines yet to come. All of this winter musing
is dream therapy. It is the potential music of life welling up:
keeping, holding the embers of passion alive. It is joy. It is
blessing. We are the child chorus of Earth. Make music in every season.
Dance. Compose. Leap and sing. Dream and fly.
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