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Benkens Nursery – Silverton OH
Burger Farm & Garden Center - Newtown OH
Funke’s - 4798 Gray Rd, Cincinnati OH
Greenfield Plant Farm – Maineville OH & 6840 Clough Pk, Cincinnati OH
Plants By Wolfangel - 8181 Beechmont Ave, Cincinnati OH
we recommend these nearby vendors
The Allman House - Mason, OH
Hyde Park Floral & Garden Center - Cincinnati, OH
Indoors Outdoors - Cincinnati, OH
Marvin's Organic Gardens – Mason OH 
Natorp’s - Mason, OH
Renaissance Garden Ornament - Cincinnati
Sayer's Landscape & Garden Center – 3295 East Sharon Road, Sharonville OH
TLC Landscape & Garden Center – Evendale OH
recommended regional vendors
 Wade Gardens Nursery & Landscaping Bellview, OH - Wade and Gatton is not just a big nursery. It is also the world’s largest hosta garden. It is located about 150 miles north of Cincinnati outside the small town of Bellview just off of I-71. You will not believe the hosta you will see there. The collection there has more than 2300 varieties on display with over 1000 for sale. Van Wade has generously donated many valuable hosta to our annual fall auction. Online ordering.
More Speciality Plants - Williamsburg, OH - more specialty plants & landscaping is a retail nursery and landscaping firm offering distinctive, new, unusual, and hard to find ornamental trees, shrubs and companion plants.
Hooks Farm Market & Greenhouse - 6750 State Route 48, Springboro, OH
Soules Garden - Indianapolis - many unique and rare Arisaema, ferns, Hellebores and many other perennials. Online ordering.
Springhouse Gardens - Nicholasville, KY - A unique garden center and nursery nestled in the heart of the famed Bluegrass Region of Kentucky, just minutes from Lexington.
Seely's Landscape Nursery - Hilliard, OH
Kuk's Forest Nursery – Becksville, OH
Homestead Division - Cleveland, OH - hosta and companion plants for the shade garden, including rare or unusual Arums, Asarums, Epimediums, Fern, Hellebores, Heuchera, and others.
Green Hill Farm - Chapel Hill, NC
recommended books on hosta
American Hosta Guide - Van Wade - great for information and finding hosta to buy at Van's nursery in Bellville, OH
Hosta Handbook - Mark Zilis - the best for helping to identify hosta
The Genus Hosta – George Schmid 
The Hosta Book - Paul Aden
The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hostas - Diana Grenfell
The Color Encyclopedia of Hostas - Diana Grenfell, Mike Shadrack
The Hosta Journal – published for members of the American Hosta Society.
The Hosta Adventure is available from the American Hosta Society - An excellent basic primer on growing hosta. The Hosta Adventure has information on hosta history, buying, landscaping, planting and growing, propagation, pests and diseases, new hostas, and a list of other resources.
The Hosta Library The Hosta Library is primarily a database for images of mature hostas. It also offers access to contributed hosta information.
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