Snow Creek Nursery

Snow Creek Nursery We grow a large selection of flowering annuals and perennials, plus herbs, vegetable and small fruiting plants and now fruit trees. Foley who has a B.S.

We can also order in trees and shrubs at your request. Snow Creek Nursery opened in the Spring of 1994 and is owned by J.T. in Horticulture from Virginia Tech and a M.S. in Horticulture from Auburn University. We grow everything that we sell (except for special orders of trees and shrubs) from seeds or plugs on site in Southeastern Franklin County, Virginia. The nursery has four 28 by 96 heated gr

eenhouses and a cold frame for production in addition to outdoor growing spaces. We specialize in the newest varieties of flowering annuals, a wide variety of culinary and medicinal herbs and both hybrid and heirloom vegetable plants. Gallon size perennials are also grown on site with an emphasis on deer resistant varieties. Fall mums and pansies are also produced. Wholesale contract growing is available for landscapers or garden centers. The nursery is open to the public for retail sales usually beginning in early March and continuing into early November, (we depend on weather conditions for specific opening and closing dates). In April and May, the nursery is open six days a week for the important and busy Spring season. We offer limited landscaping services because of our small staff but we do enjoy planting seasonal flower beds and currently install several flower beds in downtown Rocky Mount. Please feel free to contact us with specific requests if you are searching for plant material.

In addition to the wide variety of flowers, we also have some nice tomato plants with a nice mix of pepper, cucumber and...
05/09/2026

In addition to the wide variety of flowers, we also have some nice tomato plants with a nice mix of pepper, cucumber and squash plants plus don't forget the herbs both annual and perennial types. We cater to gardeners of all kinds!

Talking flowers part 2, do you know what these flowers are saying? Take me home with YOU!
05/08/2026

Talking flowers part 2, do you know what these flowers are saying? Take me home with YOU!

Sometimes you just let the pictures speak for themselves! Enjoy!
05/07/2026

Sometimes you just let the pictures speak for themselves! Enjoy!

04/16/2026

Its official, we are now open full time starting Thursday, April 16th. Our hours are now Monday through Saturday from 9 AM until 6 PM. We are still busy planting seedlings and even some extra annual plugs to fill a few gaps in our mix, but we have some pretty things for sale now and more to come! Feel free to call us to ask about what we have available and I am taking weekly trips to pick up trees and shrubs if you have requests for any of those. Happy Gardening everyone, keep cool, pray for some soaking rain!

This is a petunia post. I was just going through the greenhouse and I snapped a few pictures of some of the pretty petun...
04/02/2026

This is a petunia post. I was just going through the greenhouse and I snapped a few pictures of some of the pretty petunias that are coming along in the greenhouses, I know there a lot of you that are petunia fans, we have all kinds, including the black ones but this year for the first time, an orange petunia is available and it is really pretty so it is the feature of this post but we have many that are still green, since I stagger my petunia plantings so they are not all ready at the same time, so if you don't see a picture here that is your favorite, chances are it is still growing because it is only early April. When customers call and ask when is a good time to come and look so I can see everything in bloom and not picked over, I suggest late April before Mother's Day weekend, nothing should be sold out that soon. So we hope to see you soon and enjoy the tempting petunias pics!

Well I am sure you all have been wondering what in the world is going on with my business phone, because I have heard fr...
03/31/2026

Well I am sure you all have been wondering what in the world is going on with my business phone, because I have heard from several customers that they call the number and they get cut off after one or two rings and it goes to a busy signal or static. I called Brightspeed about it last week and again today and they are finally sending a technician tomorrow to address the problem. With all the crazy weather it's a wonder the phone works at all but if you have been trying to get through to the greenhouse number, hold on and I hope to report to you that is has been repaired tomorrow, April 1st. And no this isn't an April fool joke, I hope!

Hello Gardeners! Well it's about that time, we are going to be opening this Thursday March 12th for the Spring season. O...
03/09/2026

Hello Gardeners! Well it's about that time, we are going to be opening this Thursday March 12th for the Spring season. Our hours are going to be Thursday through Saturday from 9 till 1 and those hours will last into early April, depending on the weather, then we will switch to full time. At this time, we have some Spring pansies ready, along with our cole crops which include broccoli, cabbage, kale and cauliflower. We also have some perennial flowers that are ready to go and some of our perennial herbs could be planted now as well. I have quite a few fruit trees fully rooted in from last year's potting, with one batch of peach trees in full bloom inside the cold frame, (thank you 80 degree days), so those could easily be planted now to get a jump on your orchard planting. We are potting our annuals each week which keeps us hopping while I am sowing seeds for most everything for the vegetable garden and herb patch, if you have requests, I still have time to find seeds and get them sown for you. Please let me know what you are looking for right away! Keep an eye on the weather, it's still a roller coaster ride.

Come join the fun tomorrow in Stuart!
03/06/2026

Come join the fun tomorrow in Stuart!

Now is the time to make your garden! Anyone can be a successful gardener this time of year, and I know of no pleasanter ...
02/27/2026

Now is the time to make your garden! Anyone can be a successful gardener this time of year, and I know of no pleasanter occupation these cold, snowy days than to sit warm and snug by the fire, making garden with a pencil--with a seed catalog. What perfect vegetables we do raise in that way and so many of them! Our radishes are crisp and sweet, our lettuce tender, and our tomatoes smooth and beautifully colored. Best of all, there is not a bug or worm in the whole garden, and the work is so easily done.
In imagination we see the plants in our spring garden, all in the straight, thrifty rows with the fruits of each plant and vine numerous and beautiful as the pictures before us. How near the real garden of next summer approaches the ideal garden of our winter fancies depends upon how practically we dream and how we work.
It is necessary that we dream now and then. No one ever achieved anything from the smallest object to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first. Those who stop at dreaming never accomplish anything.
We must first see the vision in order to realize it; we must have the ideal or we cannot approach it; but when once the dream is dreamed, it is time to wake up and "get busy." We must "do great deeds, not dream them all day long."
The dream is only the beginning. We'd starve to death if we went no further with that garden than making it by the fire with the seed catalog. It takes judgment to plant the seeds at the right time, in the right place, and hard digging to make them grow, whether in the vegetable garden or in the garden of our lives.
We can work our dreams into realities if we try, but we must be willing to make the effort. Things that seem easy of accomplishments in dreams require a lot of good common sense to put on a working basis and a great deal of energy to put through to a successful end. When we make our dream gardens, we must take into account the hot sun and the blisters on our hands; we must make allowance for and guard against the "ifs" so that when the time to work has come, they will not be of so much importance.

Taken from:
Make Your Garden! Pages 85-86
Little House in the Ozarks by Laura Ingalls Wilder
ISBN 0-8407-7597-0

Our project to update the greenhouses this Fall is to put new clear polycarbonate sheets on the ends of the greenhouses....
11/30/2025

Our project to update the greenhouses this Fall is to put new clear polycarbonate sheets on the ends of the greenhouses. The old sheets of plastic have been on for about twenty years and they are beginning to crack and break, so we are replacing them, in hopes of increasing energy efficiency and light transfer. You can see in the pictures how yellow the older plastic looks, it tends to degrade over time and yellowing is the result of the aging. I like the clear clean look of the new end wall plastic except now you can see how cluttered the insides look! Now I will have another job once we are done, trying to organize the insides so it won't look like such a mess! UGH! One job just leads into another task that needs to be done, oh well.
We have posted our closed till Spring sign out on the main sign along Snow Creek Road, but you can contact me on here if you have a request for shrubs or trees or even better if you want to make a request for something specific that I can grow for you next Spring, it will give me time to source the seeds or plugs I will need to grow them. Happy Gardening Everyone!

I had something incredible in the greenhouses today! A hummingbird was running in and out of the greenhouses, feeding on...
11/06/2025

I had something incredible in the greenhouses today! A hummingbird was running in and out of the greenhouses, feeding on what leftovers I have that have not yet been killed by the frost. I still have odd things in pots that are in bloom that are tempting for a hummingbird but if the little thing heads south from here, I just wonder what else it could find to eat along the way to keep it from starving. I just wondered if any of you had ever seen a hummingbird hanging around this late in the year?

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324 Fralins Place Lane
Penhook, VA
24137

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm

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+15405764185

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