Pictures from our trip to Rich's Foxwillow Pines Nursery

Today we visited Rich's Foxwillow Pines Nursery in Woodstock, IL. Here are some pictures from our trip.  Everyone at Rich's was so nice.  They were very gracious, and Rich even took us on a tour of his whole nursery and fed us pizza.   I also took some video which will be featured on a later episode of Cheesehead Gardening.  I found out today that Rich's was featured on the PBS show Victory Garden.  Here is a link to that show.

Hosta Event Tomorrow at Rich's Foxwillow

Rich's Foxwillow in Woodstock, IL is known for their conifer selection.  However this weekend they will be hosting a hosta sale to benefit Heifer International.  My friend, Gina, and I will be going down for the event.   Hope to see some of my Cheesehead readers there.

Here is the article in the Daily Herald with more information.

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Foxfire Gardens

Well I hope I didn't get anyone all excited by posting that title.  I was just thinking the other day how much I missed visiting Foxfire Gardens.  Foxfire Gardens was a hosta nursery located of Marshfield, WI.  Last fall Foxfire announced that it was going out of business.  They had a large variety of hostas, and also had a nice hosta display garden.  It's unfortunate that they went out of business, and are sorely missed by many hosta fanatics like myself.  I noticed that many people visit my blog looking for information on Foxfire Gardens.  I have not seen it for myself, but someone visited Foxfire this summer hoping that at least the display garden was still open.  They said that the power had been turned off on the electric fence that kept the deer out, and the hostas had all been eaten to the ground.  Very sad.  Below is a video of my friend Gina and I at their going out of business sale.

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