 Around The Garden Center
 Our 20-acre Garden Center & Nursery Complex is most unique, with the largest collection of rare, unusual and hard-to-find Conifers and Japanese Maples, found anywhere. The range, breadth and depth of our plant materials offerings, hardscape displays and 2ac display gardens, is breathtaking for purists and enthusiasts alike. With people from 10+ states shopping here, to get things they can't find anywhere else, or finding plants they've never even heard of before, you'll be in good company. It's a big place, so bring a lunch; we'll provide the iced tea. Enjoy the following pictures.
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A massive stacked-boulder wall at the front entrance greets every visitor to the GC&N Complex.
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Even in early Spring, daffodills and soon tulips, welcome visitors.
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Hand-cut and meticulously-faced, stacked stone walls.
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Boulder steps, irregular flagstone and brick walkways.
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Running bond brick walk, with stacked stone column/ pedestal base,
ready
for a garden art sculpture.
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Stacked boulder retaining wall, with lots of planting pockets, ready for
landscaping with colorful perennials.
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Looking back at the entrance, from the custom-cut, irregular flagstone patio, with
fire pit and hand-cut-stone bench.
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We are the leader in both rare, unusual and hard-to-find Conifers,
and usually
have 400-600 Japanese maples on-site, during "the season".
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One of the several water gardens and ponds on the 20ac Complex,
sports breeding
geese and ducks every Spring, with lots of goslings and ducklings.
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Tens-of-thousands of pieces of nursery stock, covering several acres, are prepped for
retail sale and landscape usage, in early Spring.
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The ¾ ac StoneWorks Yard Display Gardens is just below the main parking
lot,
and welcomes all visitors with some awesome hardscape displays.
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Even in the Summer heat and humidity, our gardens are lush, colorful and inviting.
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A small fraction of the 400-600 Japanese Maples we carry, being displayed
and hooked-up to the drip irrigation system, for both containerized and B&B (balled & burlapped) nursery stock.
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There are nearly 500 B&B (balled & burlapped) trees in the nursery, displayed
and also hooked-up to the drip irrigation system, used throughout the Complex.
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The front steps of John Shelley's Garden Center & Nursery, in mid-Spring. No other garden center or nursery, anywhere, even comes close to this unique facility.
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©1996 - 2008. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
John Shelley's Garden Center & Nursery, Inc.
13579 Winterstown Road, Felton, PA. 17322-8522
vox: (717) 246-1414 1-800-828-3405 (Pa-Md) fax: (717) 246-2170
Last updated 1/26/08. 11,299,011 visitors since
1/26/96.
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