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Welcome to Bluestone's Nursery!
Although we do not have display gardens, we do have thousands of visitors come and browse our mail-order setup. We're located half-way between Cleveland, Ohio and Erie, Pennsylvania. It's a great way to see hundreds of varieties all alphabetized on tables. We also have herbs, mums, shrubs, spring bedding annuals and hanging baskets, and in the fall, bulbs. Find out where we're located! Or enjoy our virtual tour below.
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Customers can reach us by phone, Fax, mail, Website, or e-mail. We process our orders daily and indicate a two week shipping window which gives us flexibility in dealing with Mother Nature. Customers may choose their shipping day, and can modify their order right up until we start to process it. |
| We propagate over 3 million plants a season, roughly half by seed and the other vegetatively. Here are some seedlings being shifted up to their final size, and some astilbes being divided. |
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| Here is a fresh stock planting, and how it will look in a couple of months. We'll dig these in late fall and divide them into many little plantlets. |
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Our plants are started in heated houses with hot water circulating through the floors. Later they will be moved out to cooler houses to harden-off before shipping. |
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| Our mail order picking area doubles as a retail store. If you get the chance to visit, you can see over 900 varieties all alphabetized and available to take home. |
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Groups of orders are picked all at once to save our feet. They are separated and checked over before heading into our posting area. |
| Here the orders are closed up, documentation for each state added, and posted via Priority Mail, Fed-Ex, or UPS. Over 2000 boxes can post through in a day. |
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In addition to our retail business, we also service the wholesale trade. Here are plants leaving to be grown on by other nurseries and garden centers. You might see these plants later at arboretums, botanical gardens, or public gardens and amusement parks. |
| Word has spread of our spring end of season on-site clearance sale. |
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 The crew! Hope you enjoy our plants as much as we do. We sure have fun growing them.
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