Welcome to Hoot Owl Hollow Nursery!

The Perennial Gardens at Hoot Owl Hollow have been in existence for over 35 years, gradually evolving from very pracital vegatable gardens, to less filling, but more soul satisfying ornamental beds. Over the past dozen or so years they have been greatly expanded to the point where, despite having 108 acres available, we are running out of space on the 7 or so acres that we intensively garden. Hoot Owl Hollow is primarily a collage of year round pleasure gardens, plant collections, a dotage in retirement, a scandal to people who find nature untidy, as well as a small business and our home. We offer the perfect combination of the best of the tried and true and the best of the recent introductions. The collections have multiplied over the last few years to include enough to propagate for the discriminating collector and enthusiastic gardener. We have greatly expanded hardy cactus garden and alpine perennial skree, and the series of small "lakes" (otherwise referred to as the Minnihaha Garden because there are enough of them to call to mind northern Minnesota, without the walleyes of course) have been redone a bit thanks to several deer who thought it might be nice to take a swim there this summer. The Minnihaha gardens feature much needed growing area for our expanding collection of hardy miniature water lilies in particular as well as hardy lotus. The intervening areas of that garden are being filled with rare woody plants and conifer, the aesculus collection, liropes, rhodea, daylilies, and all of the new hosta cultivars we couldn't resist. Newest additions include variegated oaks, variegated orixa, hollies with variegated berries (do you see a theme here??). Up the hill above the daylilies, where we no longer wanted to mow grass, we have added more shade gardens in honor of Danforth, Lydia and Pouffy, 3 of our older kitties who we have lost in the past few years. There are lots of ferns, arisaemas, lady slippers, and other woodsy plants interplanted with hostas and hellebores. Nice all summer, but especially in the spring. Lots of new daffodils and other spring bulbs have been added, so if you'd like to see a wonderful expanse of color in early spring, just email to let us know when you'd like to visit.