Alison Leads Me Up The Road

For a few of days before we attended the Heronswood sale and visited a couple of nurseries,  Alison had been staying near that area had found a new to us nursery (It's been there for thirty years) called Roadhouse Nursery in Poulsbo. (website here) She was kind enough to go back and share it with me.

The impeccably maintained lawn paths were impressive.  There was no problem finding prices or names of any plant. Can the the spacing between the signs be this accurate without having been measured? I greatly admire this degree of precision.  My eldest sister is married to a wonderful man who I'm sure, as a child took impeccable care of all of his toys.  It wouldn't surprise me if they're all still in working order and unbroken.  He follows maintenance schedules on everything to a T and his lawn is gorgeous.   If he had a nursery, it would look like this.

A visit to Roadhouse feels more like visiting a private garden than shopping at a nursery.  Perhaps that's because it is the home garden of Jan and George Bahr, Roadhouse's owners.


Every pot standing straight and tall , spaced evenly, well cared for.  This is a degree of meticulousness that I dream about but could never pull off.  I'll be kind to myself and say that I'm simply to busy doing several jobs and having a number of hobbies to accomplish this.  (Much nicer than saying that I'm a lazy slob, right?)  By the way, I'm a spoiled youngest of five children.  My toys were mostly broken taking them out of the packages because I didn't want to gently remove them.


Roadhouse Nursery specializes in water gardens and the lower part of the space is dedicated to row after row of these  display ponds.





The Bahrs are delightful and hard working folks and their garden/nursery reflect their love of gardening and their dedication to their garden.





Also very tempting was Camellia japonica 'Alexander Hunter' which looks like a Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide' on steroids.