ABOUT US

Adiantum aleuticum ssp.calderi

We are a small specialty nursery involved in growing alpine, rock garden and woodland plants. We are situated in the foothills of Mount Sutton and Mount Echo in the picturesque Townships of Quebec, at an altitude of 400 metres (1300 feet). The nursery is surrounded by natural landscapes of streams, ponds and woodlands and shares its space with extended display gardens including scree beds, limestone, tufa, and crevice gardens, woodland and peat beds, English borders and alpine troughs.

We are Zone 4 USDA where our summers are short and cooler than our southern and western neighbors. Very few days reach 30 Celsius. Nights are cool and often breezy. Winters are long and cold but we can often rely on good snow coverage.  Temperatures in January and February hover at around minus 20-25C and often hit the minus 30-35C mark. In recent years we have experienced uncharacteristic weather patterns: droughts in spring into mid-summer; high humidity levels in summer into fall; and extreme fluctuation of temperatures in winter, often with periods of rain.

We propagate by seed, cuttings and divisions. We are constantly striving to fine-tune and increase the selection of alpines and many other choice dwarf, hardy plants, in particular Primulas, Saxifrages and dwarf shrubs, for novices and experts alike.

Our propagating material is acquired from international seed collectors, colleagues in the trade, generous friends who are avid plant collectors, and from our own plant explorations at home and abroad.

Our plants are grown mostly in 6.5 cm. rose pots. They are plunged in cold frames or overwinter in an unheated greenhouse where their hardiness is truly tested.        

Maria Galletti