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DG Friends:
A group of us have started talking about a summer, week-day "Nursery Tour and Lunch" in Austin.
You may read in the thread "Texas Statewide Round Up in Photos" to see what we have discussed thus far.
We have NOT decided the date (a week day in June, probably) or exact schedule, but thus far people have thought about 1 morning nursery, lunch, then 2-4 in the afternoon, with anyone dropping out of the caravan as needed due to time constraints. You might want to weigh in here with your thoughts, then we can tally the votes and carry on from there. I volunteered my house as a meeting point, and there is parking there for about 5-6 cars if we decide to carpool in large cars or SUV's (provided enough room is left for our all-important purchases!!) and leave other vehicles for the day.
Nurseries to consider thus far that have been mentioned by posters:
NORTH
Red Barn ( loads of everything; helpful staff) HWY 183 N
CENTRAL
Howards (family-owned since 1912; great staff) 111 E. KOENIG LANE, between Lamar and Airport Blvd.
Gardens (very specialized/ modern/ small; quite expensive but great fun to look; great store attached) 1818 W. 35TH
wwwgardens-austin.com; close to good places for lunch in the Medical Center area: La Madeline; sandwich shop with Italian Gelatto next door, ...just to name 2
Shoal Creek Nursery: one acre of "unusual plants"...I have never been here!
WEST (WESTLAKE)
Pots and Plants (lots of pots and plants! :) 5902 BEE CAVE ROAD
Barton Springs Nursery (natives, garden gifts; helpful) 3601 BEE CAVE RD.
(This area is also close to great places to have lunch: Suzi's Kitchen for Asian; McAlister's for sandwiches; FreeBird's for custom burritos; (all 3 of these are next to one another, and nearby is Amy's Austin Original Ice Cream!!) in another area is La Salsa for Mexican and a sandwich shop, and there's a Marble Slab near these 2)
EAST
Big Red Sun (Austin's newest of the best) 1102 EAST CAESAR CHAVEZ
SOUTH
Great Outdoors (Merredith--a guy--is manager and a great help!; huge place) 2730 SOUTH CONGRESS
Emerald Garden (specializes in water gardens--I haven't been in 10 years) 5700 WEST HWY 290
Natural Gardener (organic headquarters--great help from John Dromgoole himself most times) OAK HILL
It's About Thyme (herbs and more) 11726 MANCHACA RD.
Marbridge (1 acre of plants; "lowest" prices; roses) FM 1626 MANCHACA; http://www.marbridge.org
I don't know about LUNCH possibilities in these SOUTH locations.
Floribunda (added by Bigbubbles) SOUTH LAMAR
LAKEWAY OR DRIPPING SPRINGS
Sunshine Nursery (2202 FM 620 South or 333 HWY 290
? AREA
It's a Jungle (added by Bigbubbles)
For time's sake, I would suggest not going to the NORTH or LAKEWAY locations as the time expended in travel (no one wants to travel 183 in the morning, noon or 5:00!) would not be as efficient as visiting many that are closer.
I'm in a hurry so will post this and then edit later.
Connie
Connie
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