Plant Identification, Plant Finders, and Seed Swaps

Image and blog gallery for flowers and plants. Great resource for identifying flowers and plants.

Specializes in diverse fruit for the home orchard, with varieties ranging from the commonplace to the rare. over the years, we have grown and offered more than 300 varieties of apples - plus numerous pears, asian pears, plums, cherries, peaches, quinces, & figs. cultivates some 400 different roses, and these form the main motif of the greenmantle landscape gardens

A NURSERY LIKE NO OTHER, Weird Dude's Plant Zoo, L.L.C. now resides on five acres in sunny Southwest Florida. Co-owner Marty Harper and assorted other critters live on the nursery property. Debbie Gartzke, co-owner, remains in Staunton, Virginia, where the nursery began, awaiting the sale of the greenhouse property there, and spends a couple of weeks at a time at the Florida site every few months. In Florida, as they did in Virginia, Marty is surrounding the house and nursery more and more each year with display gardens in full sun to deep shade. We hope that one day these gardens will provide opportunities for visitors to the nursery to experience in the garden the plants which Weird Dude's Plant Zoo offers.

The sample seed shop specializes in vegetables, flowers, herbs and more! Our seeds comes from various sources. Many are grown here and on local farmland, some are wild collected by us, some are from farmer friends around the country, and some are bought wholesale. We try to test out as many of the wholesale varieties as possible to judge garden performance so you will also be happy with how they grow.