Our Nursery
The Nursery started in 1987, but the Kerns’ have been involved in landscaping for over 30 years. Pat says “When we started the nursery we were so small it was ridiculously funny, and being off the main roads didn’t help, but as word of mouth spread our business has continually gotten bigger and bigger. We now have a large and very unique nursery, where the environment you shop in is like a well cared for garden – not a supermarket. More than that, we are a nursery for gardeners because the plant selection we offer makes it worth coming from a good distance away..
OUR JULY NURSERY SALE STARTS JULY 2nd
With the arrival of July and the happy outdoor days of summer why not enjoy your home environment even more by sprucing up the landscape and gardens around your house. Even if you haven’t started planting, there still are plenty of healthy, mature plants available at Kerns Nursery to purchase that will grow quickly with summer weather conditions. Starting July 2nd all annuals, herbs, vegetables, hanging baskets and roses are now30% of. And large artfully arranged planted pots and baskets are20% off. Kerns also has a large supply of perennials, shrubs and trees available.
MID APRIL – OCTOBER 30TH
OPEN DAILY 9 - 5 AND 10 - 4 ON SUNDAYS
There are extended hours on Memorial Day weekend and the first weekend in June
CHRISTMAS SEASON
MID NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 23rd 10am –5pm
The Shop at Kerns Nursery
Our shop covers a variety of spaces, buildings, and seasons and includes an array of items.
First Kerns offers all the tools of the trade that helps you attain great results in landscaping, gardening, and most every situation involving living plants in home or business requirement. You will find hand tools, mulches, soils, chemicals and fertilizers. And the employees can help guide you on all the elements needed to be successful with your project. The investment of an annual pot al the way up to a handsome specimen tree require all the right elements to achieve a healthy, long lasting result.
Included here Kerns can also arrange delivery of bulk soil and mulches for the jobs may entail larger quantities.
Annuals
The annual flower collection at Kerns nursery is quite extensive. It is basically divided into three categories:
First we grow all the bedding plants in four packs—presented for individual sale or more economically by the flat. Starting in mid April when we open out comes the Pansies, dianthus and alyssum to start the season off. Followed by many varieties of marigolds, petunias, snapdragon, zinnias etc.
However the next category of specialty potted plants is where Kerns really excels! We offer a tremendous assortment of unique plants grown mostly in 4” pot. Though there are some grown in 5” - Gal size containers as well. Pat searches every year for what is current in the industry and keeps up on all the new varieties from all the industry leaders.
Perennials
The large line of Healthy, well labeled perennial plants offered at Kerns Nursery is one of our customers biggest draws.
They are presented in neat rows through out a large section of the property and are re-filled from the growing area down below where additional inventory is stored. We carry somewhere between 500-600 varieties and present to the customer in clear, easy to read cards the vital information of the plants characteristics.
Vegetables
Vegetables at Kerns Nursery include a wide variety of the usual and unusual. The plants are grown in our greenhouses in packs or appropriate size pot to give you an extra early boost in producing vegetables in your garden. Just plant when the weather warms up and stays above freezing. Kerns also offers seeds in the shop for those vegetables that grow better from direct seeding.
Herbs
The herb selection includes healthy quality plants grown in pots and packs that are appropriate in size to give the customer a full size plant or enough quantity in a pack to produce a usable quantity of herbs. You will also find combination baskets and pots with an assortment of herbs that makes using culinary herbs simple and easy if kept near the kitchen door. These also make great gifts.