NURSERY & GARDENS
Plants propagated and grown outdoors without chemicals, as nature intended.
lighting up the winter garden
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Callicarpa dichotoma 'Early Amethyst'
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Salix gracilistyla 'Mount Aso'
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Echinacea pallida
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Calamagrostis brachytricha
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Sedum 'Autumn Joy'*
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Aruncus dioicus
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Hydrangea quercifolia 'Snow Queen'
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Stachys byzantina
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Platanus occidentalis
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Deschampsia cespitosa
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Cornus mas
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Agastache foeniculum
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Calamintha nepeta 'Marvelette Blue'
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Salix gracilistyla 'Melanostachys'
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Panicum amarum
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Artemisia ludoviciana
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Boltonia asteroides 'Nally's Lime Dot'
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Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum'
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Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'
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Rudbeckia fulgida var. deamii
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Senna marilandica
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Sedum kamtschaticum*
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Sedum middendorffianum
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Salix pendulina f. salamonii 'Chrysocoma'
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Callicarpa dichotma var. albafructus 'Duet'
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ABOUT US
We are passionate plant geeks operating a new nursery on an old dairy farm in New York's Hudson Valley. We sustainably propagate and grow hardy perennials, trees, and shrubs without the use of carbon fuels, chemicals, peat, pesticides, or fertilizers of any kind.
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RIGHT PLANT,
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Beth Chatto’s maxim 'right plant, right place' is the guiding principle behind our gardens and nursery. We encourage everyone to shop and plant according to the existing conditions in their gardens.
Sustainability is at the heart of what we do at The Old Dairy. We recognize that buzz words like 'sustainable' and 'organic' are fairly meaningless these days, so read on to learn how we put the earth first in our growing practices.
SEEDS: Key to diversity.
We propagate all of our perennials right here on our farm using only propagation methods that occur in nature: seeds, spores, separation, division, layering, cutting. You won’t find laboratory-grown (or even greenhouse-grown) plants here! We grow 90% of our plants from seed following the natural rhythms of the seasons. This is incredibly important as sexual reproduction is the ONLY method of propagation that increases genetic diversity. All other methods of propagation simply create clones.
SOIL: Great plants start with great soil.
Our plants are grown in the highest possible quality soil. Whether we are growing in the ground or in containers, we make sure that our plants get the nutrients they need through the soil. Our containerized plants are grown in a compost-based potting mix with a plant-healthy fungal and bacterial profile. When the pots need to be refreshed, we top them with manure-based compost and/or give them a brief soak in one of our raised fish ponds. The plants love the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and ammonia created by the fish and the fish love the cleaned water.
SOIL: Feed the worms.
Our in-ground plants are also treated to the highest possible quality soil. We have several different types of soil on our farm, all of which we amend simply broadforking and feeding the worms. Whenever we create a new bed we begin by broadforking the entire area; next we lay down a layer of cardboard to attract the worms; finally, we cover the cardboard with layers or organic matter such as wood chips, fallen leaves, well-rotted manure, compost, etc. The worms mix the organic matter into the soil creating a beautiful loam.
SOIL: Preserve the earth.
We do not use peat in any of our growing practices. We know that plants and growers love it for good reason, but peatlands are critical ecosystems and we do not condone their destruction.
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CONTACT
info@olddairynursery.com
845.859.0848
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SEASONAL HOURS
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