BGGreen Directory - Garden & Yard
Native species
Bowling Green Community Tree Advisory Board
Contact: Jared Weaver, Parks Arborist/Forester
Bowling Green Parks & Recreation
225 East Third Avenue, BG 42101
(270) 393-3111 Fax: (270) 393-3036
Email: Jared.Weaver@bgky.org
Web: www.bgky.org/tree/
The Tree Advisory Board of the City was created to enable the city to receive the designation “Tree City USA”. It sponsors public tree planting events and a tree memorial program, and coordinates Arbor Day celebrations each year. Through education and outreach it helps educate the public about the benefits of well maintained trees and how to grow trees to provide these benefits. Its web site features information on all aspects of tree care.
Kentucky Native Plant Society
Alan Nations , President
PO Box 1152, Berea, KY 40403
(502) 235-8068
Email: alan.nations@insightbb.com
Web: www.knps.org
Promoting education about, appreciation for, and conservation of Kentucky’s native plants.
Native Plant Nurseries in Kentucky
Web: www.plantnative.org/nd_kytomt.htm
Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center
Contact: Bill Best
1033 Pilot Knob Cemetery Road
Berea, Kentucky 40403
(859) 986-3204
Email: bill_best@heirlooms.org
Web: www.heirlooms.org/index.html
“Saving yesterday’s seeds for today and tomorrow.” Find healthy garden seeds that were grown organically and come from solid, open-pollinated stock. SMAC promotes viable options to off-farm jobs for small-scale farmers, such as sustaining and marketing heirloom seeds and plants; training owners of small woodlots in less intrusive logging practices, and experimenting with growing ginseng, other medicinal herbs and mushrooms.
Nurseries & Seeds
Native Plant Nurseries in Kentucky
Web: www.plantnative.org/nd_kytomt.htm
Nolin River Nut Tree Farm
Contact: John and Lisa Brittain
797 Port Wooden Road, Upton, KY 42784
(270) 369-8551
Email: john.brittain@windstream.net
Web: http://www.nolinnursery.com/
Hours: Mon-Sat 7a-7p
Nolin River farm is a small family owned and operated nut tree nursery located about 15 miles north of Mammoth Cave National Park. Their web site – listed above – states that they have at least 175 varieties of nut trees and at least 40 varieties of persimmon and paw paw trees. For further information and email address visit the web site or call them, Mon. through Sat. 7a–7p CT.
Shooting Star Nursery
160 Soards Rd., Georgetown, KY 40324
(502) 867-7979 Fax: (502) 867-7677
Email: ShootingStarNursery@msn.com
Web: www.shootingstarnursery.com
Family-run, mail-order Kentucky native-plant nursery selling wildflowers, trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, and seeds. Open by appointment only.
The Tree Doctor
Contact: David Draper
785 Morris Duff Road, Woodburn, KY 42170
(270) 529-9955
Don’t top trees! The Tree Doctor is Western Kentucky’s only International Society of Arboriculture Certified Consulting Arborist. Tree preservation, diagnostic consultation, biological pest control and insect and disease treatments.
Wild Bird and Nature Store
Contact: Gerrie or Jeftie Sawyer
901 Lehman Ave. (Midtown Plaza), BG 42101
(270) 746-0203
Hours: M-F 9:30a-5:00p; Sat. 10a-4p
Wild bird and outdoor feeding and supplies, local seed supplies, some local artists and KY plants in season. Full line of bird houses, feeders, and baths.
