Kentucky wholesale perennials grasses ground covers

Kelly Nursery LLC  was founded in 1998 by nurseryman Todd Kelly and the painter  Cynthia Ryan Kelly http://cynthiaryankelly.com. We are in northern Jessamine County; fifteen minutes south of downtown Lexington where our wholesale nursery grows perennials , grasses, and ground covers. Kelly Nursery also offers woody ornamentals to our customers who include landscape contractors, garden centers, horse farms, and institutions in central Kentucky, Louisville, and Cincinnati.

We have a sizable inventory of plants on the ground and can execute large contract growing projects. Our list includes garden standards Liriope, Pachsandra, ‘Becky’ shasta daisy, ‘Ruby Star’ coneflower, and ‘Goldsturm’ Rudbeckia, native and restoration plants, and hard to find ornamentals such as Carex, Hakonechloa, Asarum, and Helleborus. Our woody list includes ‘Green Velvet’ and American boxwood, ‘Otto Luyken’,  schipk laurel, ‘Hicksii’ and ‘Repandens’ taxus, and ‘Little Gem’ Magnolia.

We are a versatile nursery.

In 2010 we completed the delivery of 23,000 ft² of green roof modules for the  UK/Chandler Medical Center in Lexington. We also supplied the perennials and ornamental grasses for the Legacy Trail http://mylegacytrail.com/ which is a 12 mile walking and biking trail running from east of downtown Lexington to the Kentucky Horse Park. For Clark County, KY, we grew 10,000 cattails and soft rush for a landfill reclamation and lagoon project. Our fund raising projects include the annual peony sale at Ashland, the home of Henry Clay http://www.henryclay.org .

Kentucky’s climate and long growing season allows for the cultivation of a wide variety of perennials, ornamental grasses, and ground covers which allows for rapid growth in the warm part of the year. Central Kentucky’s typically cold winters provide sufficient winter dormancy for the heavy flowering of our perennials. Please refer to our peony page for information on the Itoh intersectional hybrid peonies, which are among the most highly prized and worthy of garden plants.

Please send an email, through the link provided, so that we can respond to your need for a quote, to answer your questions about availability or for general nursery information.

Look to us for wholesale perennials in Kentucky.