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Unearthing the past: Finding a one-of-a-kind nursery
When landscape designer Victoria Coyne and her husband, Wayne
Waddell, first saw the rundown hillside property in Rosendale,
New York, they saw a cement block, one-story building with a caved
in roof and a back lot covered with debris and tires, but they
had a vision of a grand, open space with cathedral-like ceilings
and an impeccable outdoor nursery. Their vision became a reality
with the grand opening of The Shop @ Victoria Gardens, March 1,
2007.
The couple had suspected that there were veins of bedrock through
the property, but as they dug out over 400 tires and other debris
from the property they realized that there was a shelf of bedrock
that extended for almost 1,300 square feet. Wayne cleared off
200 yards of soil with a Backhoe, and then the two took turns
power washing the surface.
What they uncovered was an almost level 375 million year old bedrock
shelf that was at one time under the ocean. The rock’s surface
is covered with fossils of shells and sea creatures. This bedrock
is the magical setting for an enchanting nursery.
Victoria has been gardening in the Hudson Valley professionally
for over 20 years. With that experience and knowledge, Victoria
brings in specimens of perennials, shrubs, and trees that have
performed well in the area for her in past, and she is also always
seeking to introduce new plants that suite the weather and terrain.
The plants are sourced from quality growers, with whom Victoria
has known and worked with for years. Victoria Gardens is an impeccable
nursery where all the plants are well cared for.
The nursery is not set up in sterile rows of plants, but rather,
presented in vignettes of complementary plants that provide a
visual sense how they will look in your own garden. Victoria divides
the nursery in to four categories: Full sun, shade, deer resistant
full sun, and deer resistant shade.
Inside the beautiful cedar-sided building, white maples cut from
the property tower from floor to ceiling. The columns of trees
and huge south facing windows gives the building the look and
feel of a church, a place where gardeners might come to pay homage
to the newest Echinacea hybrid, or the autumn-blooming clematis.
The garden center carries tools, pottery, gifts, outdoor furniture,
and organic alternatives to insecticides, fungicides, and fertilizers.
The Shop at Victoria Gardens is more than a spectacular, rock-top
nursery and garden center; it is a little piece of Horticultural
Heaven. It is a destination.
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For more information contact Victoria Coyne at (845) 658-9007.
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