I had lots of shade-loving hostas in my home in West Hartford, many of which I bought at O'Brien Nurserymen in Granby, Connecticut. My daughter took two dozen of them for her Ridgefield home, and she has added others. On Friday we drove up to O'Brien to admire the crop and buy some more.
John O'Brien created this amazing place in 1984. His nursery has grown into New England’s premier hosta nursery. The extensive display gardens feature over 1,300 hosta varieties as well as other shade-loving plants. John's plant knowledge is encyclopedic. He helped us choose about a dozen plants.
Beyond hostas, O'Brien features asarums, pulmonarias, epimediums, polygonatums, and arisaemas.
The gardens also include a wide variety of unusual dwarf conifers
and more than 100 varieties of Japanese maples.
If any reader loves plants -- especially shade-loving plants -- enjoy this Youtube interview with John O'Brien from August 2025. It has had more than 100,000 views since it was released ten months ago.
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