Visit Our Display Gardens
April 2002 Volume 15, No. 1

The best way to learn about gardening is to garden. However, space and monetary considerations can stifle experimentation. Horsford’s display gardens can help you learn before you invest.

If you wander the nursery, you’ll find mature trees, shrubs, and perennials, most of which are labeled. Ask our resident gardeners to point you toward the shade border, the shade garden, the sun garden, the daylily/iris gardens, and the annual garden. Stop and admire our
ancient pair of locust trees, all abuzz in Visit Our Display Gardens spring with fragrant blossoms and bees. Wander past the greenhouse and you will come upon the largest chestnut tree in Charlotte. (It blooms in June.) Around the pond you will see clumps of
miscanthus, white birches and gnarly old damson plums (compliments of Golden Apple Orchard).

The purpose of these many plantings is to enable the homeowner to see what sort of space a mature plant will fill in their yard, and how colors and shapes evolve with growth. Besides, we really love to plant things.