A little about our garden nursery:
Plant Delights Nursery is an
award winning online nursery
in
Raleigh, NC near Garner.
We specialize in
rare, and unusual perennials
for sale and we strive to carry a wide selection of exotic plants, cold hardy tropical plants,
native plants,
and the best selection of
new plants online.
At any time, this website has over 1700 online nursery plants for sale. Many of our best perennials are
available nowhere else in the US as they represent rare plants collected by Plant Delights founder Tony Avent during
his more than 60
plant hunting expeditions
to places like China, Crete, Taiwan, South Africa and Argentina or distributed by some of the many
specialty plant organizations
of which Plant Delights is a member. If you are looking for where to buy plants online, our wide selection of interesting
garden plants makes us the
best place to buy plants online for all
types of gardens from small garden landscapes such as patio / container gardens to home gardens and on up to the
largest botanical gardens. We understand the importance of gardening and make it our duty to discover the most interesting
landscape plants and place those perennial plants for sale. Our core customers are those that are looking for perennial
landscaping plants or container plants and who have a real love for special, exotic, rare, unique and esoteric perennial flowers
...if great garden plants are your passion, then Plant Delights Nursery is for you.
We grow all our perennial plants in greenhouses at our
Raleigh, NC
garden nursery
and customers can buy the best perennials online through this website and via our
printed plant catalog.
We ship mail order plants all over the world...or you can simply
order plants online
and drive over to pick them up. We specialize in growing and selling perennial garden plants. We have a
wide selection of flowering perennials in all
colors, plus foliage plants,
ferns, and
ornamental grasses.
We periodically open up our
beautiful garden nursery
to the public for retail sales events, classes, photography workshops, and guided tours. We also host
private groups like schools, plant societies, garden clubs, botanical societies, arboreta, and plant nurseries by appointment.
Proceeds from sales at Plant Delights Nursery support the
Juniper Level Botanic Gardens,
a six acre garden with extensive research programs that grows over 18,000 different plants...exotic plants,
native plants, unique plants...all types of outdoor plants.
In business since 1988, Plant Delights Nursery was named one of the
Top 7 online plant nurseries in the U.S.
by Garden Design Magazine in their December 2010 issue. In addition to being a plant explorer and businessman, Tony Avent is a
renowned plantsman, a successful
author
and a
popular garden speaker
who tours nationally. Among plant catalog companies, Plant Delights Nursery is well known for its printed plant catalogs
which feature humorous and topical
cover art
as well as irreverent, witty and sometimes edgy prose. Plant Delights Nursery and Tony Avent are
frequently profiled
on television (including The Martha Stewart Show and Almanac Gardener), in magazines (including Southern Living, Horticulture,
and Fine Gardening), in newspapers (including the New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and The News and Observer),
in garden blogs (including Growing with Plants, Gardening Gone Wild, Red Dirt Ramblings, Royal Horticultural Society)
and podcasts (including A Way to Garden).
So if you are looking for where to buy the best nursery plants online, you have come to the right
place. Welcome to Plant Delights Nursery!
