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Armillary for web91 Somerset Road
PO Box 2819
Nantucket, MA 02584

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P:  508-228-6828
F:  508-228-3085

Email: sales@surfinghydrangea.com

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We maintain regular hours between mid March and mid December.  We are available by appointment throughout the winter months.

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Fall hours: Monday-Friday 8-4, Saturday 8-1. We will be closed Thursday, November 28th-Sunday, December 1st for Thanksgiving.

Surfing Hydrangea Nursery, Inc.

PO Box 2819
91 Somerset Road
Nantucket, MA 02584
508-228-6828
sales@surfinghydrangea.com
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happy Monday 🌲 we are open until 4pm all week, happy Monday 🌲 we are open until 4pm all week, with plenty of trees and shrubs available for fall planting projects!
you’ve heard about our on-going clearance deals you’ve heard about our on-going clearance deals (more and more stock on sale these days) 🤩🤩🤩 but we can’t forget to mention our beautiful selection of fresh seasonal evergreens - for all your holiday decorating needs - we’re talkin’ live Christmas trees too! 🎄 #evergreens #livechristmastree #freshstock #fallplantingseason
our courtyard is all stocked up for holiday contai our courtyard is all stocked up for holiday containers & sprucing up your fall landscape! evergreens provide interest, color and texture all year long 🌲💚 come check out our varied selection of container evergreens and shrubs, even mini evergreens for festive window boxes! #fallplanting #evergreens #holidaydecorating #windowbox
Clethra alnifolia, also known as summersweet, is a Clethra alnifolia, also known as summersweet, is a native North American plant that is endemic to Nantucket where it can be found growing in low-lying areas and at the edges of wetlands. If grown in moist soil, it tends to sucker and form colonies over time. However, this plant is well-behaved and very adaptable, doing well in most any island garden where average soil and even water is available. It prefers full sun but will flower in shade. The overall look of these plants is a pleasant green, twiggy shrub with an upright, balloon-shaped habit. They have medium green, rounded, ovate leaves with finely toothed edges. In mid-summer, they produce loads of fragrant flowers that are reminiscent of small, skinny bottle brushes. The native form of this plant generally has white flowers, but there are pink cultivars available, as well. Beneficial insects like it just as much as we do; many species of butterflies, bees, wasps, flies, and other flying insects frequent the plant while it is in flower during July and August. Clethra can serve many uses in the landscape. If planted in a row, they make a great informal hedge that doesn’t require much pruning to maintain a tight shape. We’ve seen them used very well in mixed shrub borders with both native and ornamental plants. They make natural companions to bayberry, arrowwood, groundsel and beach plum, but look just as well among ornamental plants like butterfly bushes, vitex, shrub roses and spiraea. They respond very well to pruning and can be maintained at a height of five feet or so with an annual pruning. Some gardeners prefer to remove the spent flowers while others leave them on the plant to be covered up by the new growth in spring. These are the most common varieties we sell at SHN: 🍂 Clethra alnifolia: The species form of this shrub. Generally grows 3-4′ wide and 6 or more feet tall. White flowers. 🍂 ‘Hummingbird’: Compact, white-flowered form. 2-4′ wide and up to 5′ high. 🍂 ‘Ruby Spice’: Pink flowers, average size. 🍂 ‘Sixteen Candles’: Compact, white-flowered selection with white flowers #nativeplant #fallcolor #nantucketshrub #clethraalnifolia 📸sourced from Pialasnursery.com
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