Beds & Borders, Inc.
Beds & Borders, Inc. is another excellent wholesale grower of specialty plants located on the very beautiful North Fork of Long Island. Beds & Borders was founded in 1987 by the late Kathryn Pufahl, who began growing unusual plants previously unavailable to the wholesale trade in one small plastic greenhouse. Since that time, the business has grown tremendously to 90,000 square feet of growing space in a computer controlled production facility. Their specialty are annuals and tender perennials, which can be found in garden centers from Vermont to Maryland and are used extensively by the industry's best garden design professionals. Andrea and I found a wonderful selection there.
1 The entrance of Beds & Borders
2 The greenhouses at Beds & Borders are with exceptional plants.
3 The colors and varieties are astounding!
4 These are Korean Mums, which they grow for New York City's Central Park.
5 Andrea standing in front of a salvia called Indigo Spires
6 Violet hederacea - Tasmanian Violet - The violet-purple flowers are tipped with white and accented with a little, bird-like orange 'beak.'
7 I just love how all of these plants look together. The colors and textures really complement.
8 Someone has a lot of watering to do here!
9 Here I am discussing how I use this plant with Heather - staff at Beds & Borders.
10 This looks like an impressionist painting.
11 I'm always impressed with the inventory here.
12 Heather, Andrea, and I admiring the carex in frosted and bronze - perennial grass
13 Beautiful succulents - Andrea agreed that a TV segment on growing succulents would be great.
14 Lovely chicks and hens
15 Variegated jade
16 This is their fall crop of pansies.
Hi Martha, The North Fork of Long Island is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen and Beds and Borders is an exceptionally spectacular place worth visiting time and again. Oh, how I wish I lived close enough to be there often. Maybe someday.... These photos are absolutely fantastic. I just love the fact that we can enlarge each photo to see all of the details. By doing so, it feels like I'm right there and can reach out and touch the plants or smell the blossoms. Beautiful!!! Jan
Posted by: Jan Erickson | August 24th, 2009 at 1:56 am
--Great business name! Love the facility. Thank you--
Posted by: Mina | August 24th, 2009 at 7:08 am
MARTHA--- A beautiful, imformative blog as usual! Thanks for all of your efforts!
---Jonathan Brown
Posted by: Jonathan Brown | August 24th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Great premises and business. I love it.
Posted by: French beds | August 24th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Wow I love the variety of the plants that they have. Absolutely beautiful. Post more pics if you have them!
Posted by: johnraymond | August 24th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Another lovely nursery...always interesting and so informative.
Posted by: sherey | August 24th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Martha, you are too cool, take a tour riding in golf carts of many nurseries, look at plants, step over plants, pick up plants eat lunch AND not a stain on your white pants nor a sticker in your foot.
Posted by: Margie | August 24th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Really beautiful and now that fall is here the shadows will make it more so...will have the soup soon and thanks for the infomation that helps keep life easy.
Posted by: Therese | August 24th, 2009 at 11:28 am
The plants at Beds & Borders, Inc are really beautiful and no doubt Zack and Heather have a lot to do with keeping them in tiptop shape. That’s an excellent crop of pansies and I really like the chicks & hens, but most of all the Tasmania violet. It has such beautiful leaves and I zoomed in and saw the orange beak too. Pretty neat - thanks for the tour Martha. I bought some perennials over the weekend which I need to get into the ground today and I also bought some beautiful ferns.
I look forward to when your show starts on September 14 so we can see which plants you and Andrea selected. Trish
Posted by: Trish | August 24th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Wholesale, not open to the public, right?
I was inspired by the above photos to look at their online Spring 2009 catalogue and it is so pretty and informative. An apparently nice and very accomplished family, I wasn't aware of them before. There is always something important to learn if you dig a little deeper. Best wishes to them.
Succulents! They pop up everywhere here and it's hard to keep them corralled. One man's weed is another's tender perennial. I did think it funny to see the weeds in the sedum. Just a little bit of "Amish imperfection" in a very tidy operation.
Posted by: jw | August 24th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Wow Martha!
Beds and Borders have an account with NYC? That's nice. You still in that hot, black shirt? Yes, I see everyone is color coordinated! Good Lord! We won't find you stuck in a box of crayons, now will we! Ha!
Posted by: tinay | August 25th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Martha,
If you are ever in Northern Calif. I think you would love to see the shop called Poots House of Cactus it is in Ripon,CA., It is truly amazing. I know that you enjoy succulents and cactus. There is also a masive pottery shop right before Poots on Highway 120. Love your blog. Kim
Posted by: kim bartolomei | August 28th, 2009 at 10:53 am