When it comes to Botanic Gardens in West Virginia, you might already know about the West Virginia Botanic Garden in Morgantown. But did you know there’s a second, privately owned botanic garden in Renick, West Virginia? It’s on the grounds of a massive 60-acre wholesale flower farm called Sunshine Farm & Gardens in Greenbrier County, and it’s open to the public with an advance appointment.
Sunshine Farm & Gardens boasts a separate, 60-acre Botanic Garden and Arboretum featuring more than 10,000 different plants from all over the world. With acres and acres of gardens, including native and nonnative plants in open air and greenhouse beds, there really are more flowers in more varieties at this farm than pretty much anywhere else in the state!
Founded over three decades ago, this flower farm perched on a mountaintop in Greenbrier County features thousands of different, hardy-to-zone-5 perennials, bulbs, trees, and shrubs.
In addition to retail and wholesale, the farm runs a state of the art tissue culture laboratory where they experiment to improve the genetics of their various plant strains.
And then there's the Display Gardens. Designed by English gardener Matthew Bishop, the Display Gardens on Sunshine Farm can be toured in person with advance notice or virtually thanks to the award-winning photography of Mark Turner.
Find the virtual tours of Sunshine Farm & Gardens here.
And although it's true that there is an amazingly wide variety of flowers available on this farm, Sunshine Farm & Gardens does specialize in one genus of flower in particular: Helleborus, a rose-like flower popular in decorative gardening as an evergreen and an early bloomer.
You can also purchase Sunshine Farm plants, seeds, bulbs, and bushes from various garden centers throughout West Virginia or order directly from Sunshine Farm if there isn't a distributor in your area. Again, contact the farm for details.
To learn more and find contact information for the farm, visit Sunshine Farm and Gardens’s website here or their Facebook page here. Have you been to visit this dreamy flower farm before? What did you think? How does it compare to the West Virginia Botanic Garden?
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