Spring garden planting season is extra special at Sara’s Garden & Nursery, 389 East Avenue, Brockport.
Owners Kathy and Steven Kepler began Sara’s in 1977 selling homegrown vegetable and garden plants and flowers from a farm wagon. Still a family owned business, over the years Sara’s Garden & Nursery has grown, they now have a 20,000 sq. ft. greenhouse and continue to grow all their own annuals, vegetable plants and hanging baskets.
Sara’s offers over 1,500 varieties of perennials, most of their perennial varieties are rare and unique to this area. “I have always loved plants. When we started out in the late 1970’s there were very few local greenhouses that offered a selection of speciality perennials. I set out to find the most unique and unusual varieties to sell.” Kathy Kepler says. Sara’s has perennials that thrive in a variety of garden conditions…sun, shade, alpine and vining varieties. They have over 200 varieties of Hostas and 100 varieties of Clematis plants.
In addition to perennials, Sara’s has a huge selection of vegetable plants, annuals, conifers, ferns, ground cover, grasses, herbs, shrubs, shade trees, fruit trees and interior plants.
For the past 20 years Sara’s has been a source for water gardens and pond needs. They carry plants, fish and construction supplies and all the products necessary to maintain ponds and water gardens. Sara’s has a 20 year old Lotus at their main display pond that is spectacular sight to see when in full flower.
Other products include pottery, garden ornaments, fairy gardens, and organic and chemical gardening supplies. They offer container planting services, and mulch and soil delivery.
A stroll through their display gardens provides a source for peaceful meditation and artistic inspiration.
Sara’s Garden & Nursery has hosted many weddings through the years in their gardens. A main attraction is the Stone Wall Folly. In the fall of each year, Sara’s hosts a wall building class instructed by John Shaw-Rimmington from Canada, originally from England, and Norman Haddow from Scotland. Over the course of the class ten students learn the craft of stone wall building. The Stone Wall Folly at Sara’s is an ongoing project that replicates the Garden Follies style popular in 18th Century English and French landscaping gardens. In Victorian times garden follies featured Roman and Asian temples, Egyptian Pyramids, castles, even abbeys and rustic cottages in ruin. Sara’s Stone Wall Folly will evolve and progress over future years into a castle in ruin. The gardens around the folly provide the perfect setting for a wedding ceremony, among the gardens and castle ruins.
Visit Sara’s Garden & Nursery Monday thru Saturday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Visit www.sarasgardencenter.com for more information.
Photos by Barbara Burke
