Welcome to RainbowMums.com, your guide to one of New England's most unique plant nurseries. Drawing on 30 years of experience in horticultural production, Rainbow Mums can offer what other garden centers and big retail outlets cannot: healthy, fresh, garden-ready plants that are produced entirely on site! For photos and in-depth descriptions, check out our products guide.

Rainbow Mums has developed a loyal following by making selections easy-- whether you're stopping in for a quick, economical gift or planning to rejuvenate your entire yard. Display gardens are all around, filled with thoughtful combinations of plants that we currently grow. Get ideas for planting gardens, borders or living fences with our landscaped-sized perennials.

Our collection of choice Perennials, Sedums & Ornamental grasses has grown over the last few years to include 15 different Hydrangeas and many new small tufted & colorful ornamental grasses.

Shade Gardening

Now for shade gardens, we grow over 100 different, brilliantly-colored Hostas! brand new this year is a collection of 10 strikingly beautiful ferns, 10 flowering astilbes, 6 multicolored Heuchera, 2 new Tiarella ("foam flower"), and a large selection of perennial geraniums.

Presenting: The Happy Pot

Many of our new plants are produced in a smaller, more economical "Happy Pot". Not only is this smaller size pot beneficial for the root systems of heuchera and geraniums, you'll also save money as the smaller pot allows us to save on materials!

"Sheering and Feeding"

Try this with late blooming Asters, returning Hardy Mums, Asteromea, Eupatorium, upright Phlox, Bee Balm, Catmint, and many other vigorous fall bloomers: Using a sharp garden scissors and Osmocote fertilizer, go around to your perennials that always get too tall before they flower...

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Perennials Open Extra Early For 2010: Friday, May 28th!

We realize that waiting until the middle of July has been difficult for many of our customers. So this year, we are opening on May 28th!