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The Nursery
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Blanchette Gardens is a retail, family run nursery that began in 1981.
We take pride in our very extensive list of perennials with about 100,000
containers in stock for retail sales. It features varieties noted for
their beauty and suitability to this climate. This vast selection of
wonderful colors, textures and forms makes it easy to plan a wonderful
garden. We offer many unusual plants, some of which are available
nowhere else. We produce virtually all of the plants including many
difficult specimens. This allows us to keep our prices reasonable. Our
stock is made up from selections of the finest disease and insect resistant
forms. Unlike other nurseries, we do not force our perennials in greenhouses.
They are grown outdoors, so they flower at the correct time and are less
likely to keel over and die with frosts. Sorry, no mail order.
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Contact
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267 Rutland Street
Carlisle, MA 01741
978-369-2962
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Nursery Business Hours
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- Open April 26 to August 31
- Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Closed Wednesday and during thunderstorms
- July 4th - Closed
- September
- Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Closed Weekdays
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Volume Discounts
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This applies to all retail and wholesale customers. We will give the following
discounts on all plant sales at the nursery. These are for individual sales and
are not cumulative. We like people to pick their own plants and we will not give
a discount if we have to pull orders in advance.
- 10% on sales over $100.00
- 15% on sales over $300.00
- 20% on sales over $500.00
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Gift Certificates
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Plants make lovely gifts that last through many seasons. Please
send us a check for the amount of the gift ($25 minimum) and your
friend's name and address. We will promptly send them a gift
certificate along with a catalog.
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Recycling
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We give a five cent credit for any container that we use in the nursery.
Please restrict your returns only to those containers we use. We cannot
use old plug trays, ceramic pots, etc.
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Mail Order
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We do not ship. Plants are only available for purchase in the sales area of the nursery.
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Display Gardens
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We have a number of perennial borders at the nursery. We hope that each
of our gardens will give you many ideas to use on your own property.
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Picture Books
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We have many of our plants in picture books for your use while shopping in the nursery.
Please ask to use them.
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Catalog
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A detailed catalog is on line at www.blanchettegardens.com.
Each year our printed catalog (bulk mail) free of charge to everyone who adds or checks their name on our
mailing list at the nursery the previous year. The catalog is free at the nursery but we ask for $3.00
to mail a printed copy. This is to cover postage and handling costs. Please keep in mind that we
pot up many new varieties during the season that will not be on the spring list and sometimes we sell
out of a few during the course of the year.
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Catalog Codes
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After the name of the plant you will find the flower color, height, flowering
time, and hardiness zone. The small print after the price of each variety indicates
where to find the plant in the nursery. For example, 19M means the plant is in
row 19, middle section; 19F means row 19, front section; 19B means row
19, back section. Each row in the nursery is clearly marked. An * after the
row number in the catalog means stock is very limited.
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Hardiness Zones & Bloom Times
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Hardiness is an estimation of a plant’s ability to withstand cold temperatures. Cultural
conditions, summer heat, amount of water and other conditions can also have an influence.
- Zone 2 -50 to -40 F
- Zone 3 -40 to -30 F
- Zone 4 -30 to -20 F
- Zone 5 -20 to -10 F
- Zone 6 -10 to 0 F
- Zone 7 0 to +10 F
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Guarantee
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We guarantee all plants sold by us to be true to name. This guarantee is limited
to the purchase price of the plant. We cannot guarantee the growth or performance of
any plant after it leaves our nursery. When you purchase a plant we try to offer the
best advice we can about hardiness and growing conditions; this is a service and not
a guarantee. Everything listed is subject to crop condition and supply. We reserve
the right to limit quanities purchased if stock is low. We also do not like to sell
plants which are not showing any growth. Some varieties do not start to grow until
early May and others go dormant in the summer.
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