Why The Wandering Eye Gives A Posy To Pondside Nursery
So it takes your better class ‘o nursery to grab me, kicking and screaming, and entice me to actually buy a plant. Pondside Nursery, on Route 9G south of Hudson, grabs me. The owner, Claverack native Jake Watts, has created a new horticultural destination in our ‘hood. The nursery’s hardscape and landscape are evolving every season, and I, for one, enjoy a nursery that actually plants a landscape around and into the inventory. It inspires me.
Jake and his crew have ditched the standard retail model of lots of little garden tchotchkes, weird hoses and twee birdhouses. They focus on the plants and leave the gnomes to others. Check out the website and the blogs by Robert Anderson. Lots of information, beautifully delivered. Jake has a BA in horticulture. He’s been doing this since 2002 but just dug the pond and established the nursery in 2011. He is a pro at throwing out the Latin names along with the vernacular (I love me a little Latin). His advice over the two years we’ve been stopping by has always been good — and it has often been “That’s not going to work for you" kind of advice, which is the best kind. Last year we gave over our place to Jake to maintain and it has never looked better.
So check it out. We can’t drive to Hudson without stopping.
Pondside Nursery
5918 RT9G Hudson, NY
(518) 828-1179
Open daily, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group).
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