Ambleside Gardens & Nursery

Customers have always been delighted with our park-like setting where TREES AND SHRUBS are displayed. Meandering paths lead through Dogwoods, Cherries, and Birches. Ornamental trees are grouped together and include many that bloom after Cherries, Pears, and Crabapples. Ambleside carries American Dogwoods and the Rutgers Hybrid Dogwoods (Stellar Pink, Constellation, and Venus) as well as pink and white Kousa Dogwoods. Other garden favorites include Redbuds (in shrubform, treeform, or weeping), Fringetrees in both shrub and tree form ( American and Chinese), Japanese Styrax and the unusual Styrax Obassia, Japanese Tree Lilacs, Stewartias, and the August blooming Golden Rain Tree.

A huge selection of Azaleas, Rhododendrons and Laurels offer you a spectacular range of colors and extended bloom periods. Don't miss the unusual dwarf Rhododendron varieties--Mary Fleming, Ginny Gee, Kiskei, Patty Be, Windbeam, Dora Amateis, Baden Baden--and the dwarf late blooming Azalea varieties-- Pink Pancake, Alexander, Wintergreen, Chinzan, Shira Fuji, and Susan Oliver--flowering into July.

For summer flowers choose from Ambleside's selection of Spirea, Butterfly Bushes--including the new compact Adonis and Peacock--Rose of Sharon, Blue Mist Spirea, and Crepe Myrtles. Ambleside also carries the Forever and Ever Hydrangeas as well as Endless Summer Hydrangea.

Don't miss the connoisseur's corner filled with many hard to find plants like dwarf Daphne, dwarf Ginkgo Chi-Chi, Cavatine Andromeda, Variegated and Weeping Dogwoods, Skimmias, rare Japanese Maples, fragrant hybrid Azaleas--Lemon Drop, Marydel, Lollipop, Choice Cream, Choptank Rose, My Mary, and Snowbird--and even topgrafted Cotoneaster Apiculata or Tom Thumb.

This year's collection of dwarf evergreens and rock garden gems is better than ever. Try any of the popular dwarf Hinoki Cypress varieties--Lynn's Golden, Verdoni, Blue Feathers, Templehoff, Split Rock, or Snowkist. For added accent, many of these are now available in a "topgrafted" form creating a miniature tree! Dwarf Spruces, Pines, and Cryptomerias also are perfect in the rock garden. All of these are located near the waterfall garden where children love to search for frogs!