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Thank you for visiting our site. We are looking forward to seeing you all again. We have added many more plant photos and will continue to make additions.

For those of you who haven't discovered our Nursery yet, we have become known as the "SECRET PLANT PLACE". Our Nursery is located where we live -- and there is no signage. You won't know we are a Nursery from the street. We specialize in fine Hosta and hardy, unusual Shade & Part Shade Perennials. We also have wonderful and unusual plants in the Sun, Vines, Shrubs and Conifer categories. This being our 11th full time year offering great plants also brings the American Hosta Society Convention to Minneapolis. We will be among the gardens that will be toured by this group of Hosta fans. We have over 385 Hosta cultivars available for sale including the giant, Hosta 'Empress Wu' as well as about 2 dozen new Hosta cultivars this season. Beyond our love for Hosta, other shade plants are our favorites and we are offering over 180 great selections including Heuchera 'Electra' which has proven its durability in our display gardens, and 2 new Heucherella -- 'Golden Zebra' and 'Sweet Tea', as well as Heucherella 'Stoplight'. One of the most exciting plants in our shade collection is Podophyllum 'Spotty Dotty' which became of blooming age last season. We actually have many favorite plant groups -- we are collectors.

It's fun for us to expand our collections and find new and rare plants -- and in turn offer them to you. We made the effort last season to make ready a number of "rare finds" for you to consider for your gardens. Among these are Crambe maritima, Allium carinatum ssp. pulchellum, the actual Helleborus 'Potters Wheel' clone, Potentilla atrosanguineum, Lathyrus venetus, Senna hebecarpa, Astilbe biternata, and Pulmonaria 'Neuenberg'.

You can continue to enjoy our rare Rock Garden Peony, specie Peony, and blooming size Tree Peony. All of the peonies we offer are specialty offerings and ideal to use in the mixed border. Having many arbors and trellis areas here at the Nursery has prompted us to find some really great clematis including the beautiful and rare Clematis texensis 'Sir Trevor Lawrence', Clematis 'Silver Moon' and 3 Clematis integrifolia types: 'Alionushka', 'Arabella' and 'Rouguchi' -- all of which you can see growing here at the Nursery. As we did last season we are again offering the new Clematis 'Paul Farges' -- it offers a great replacement to the common Sweet Autumn Clematis.

Conifers and Deciduous Shrubs are still among our offerings. In the Conifer offerings we have added 9 new selections including the dwarf Gingko 'Mariken'. We offered Caryopteris 'Snow Fairy' at the Nursery last year but we did not have it listed on the web site. It has the most gorgeous variegated foliage and suitable for sun or partial shade.

Thanks for considering Venero Gardens as your plant source. Have a great Garden Season!