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Bennett Nurseries, located on North Memorial Parkway in Huntsville, has gone beyond just selling plants and shrubberies. They are locally known for their Pansy Festival in the fall (October) and the April-May festive weekends in the spring.
I planned to just rush in and grab a few bedding plants and leave. Over two hours later, I emerged with a cart-full of colorful and unusual plants and an adventure that I hadn't expected to find in a greenhouse.
As you enter the grounds, you're invited to help yourself to free Starbucks coffee, spiced tea or a old fashioned 8 oz. collectors' bottle of Coke or Dr. Pepper. Children delight in the electric LGB toy train as it circles under trees and greenery on its track.
During the busy fall and spring season, on weekends free barbeque chicken is served, along with live entertainment that has included everything from classical country to a harpist. The Classical-Country Connection trio of Bob, Leo, and Shane Adkins are frequent entertainers at Bennett Nurseries.
The grounds are park-like, with a wooden stage for the entertainment, a gazebo draped with wisteria, strategically placed wooden rockers and comfortable benches throughout for customers to sit and enjoy the music, rest from their shopping or rock an exhausted child.
Landscaped beds show ideas for customers to use in their own gardens. Throughout the 15 greenhouses, you'll find amusing signs like this one: "Rabbits Keep Out......This Goes for Groundhogs, Too." The atmosphere is fun, light-hearted and inviting.
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