Bearwood Gardens Landscaping Design & Maintenance
Bearwood Gardens designs and maintains landscaping for a wide variety of customers. From installing new plantings, creating water features, or refreshing and recreating outdoor spaces, we do it all. One of our specialties is Cottage and Victorian style gardens. Bearwood Gardens has adopted a policy to utilize organic and natural solutions to weed and pest control. We help people learn about the healthier choices available for their gardens.
227 E. Ormsby Ave.
Louisville, KY 40203
(502) 636-0602
bearwood@bellsouth.net
Big River Rain Barrel
We install rain barrels.
328 W. Riverside Drive
Jeffersonville, IN 47130
pxcroce@earthlink.net
Brightside coordinates 12 community gardens in the Louisville area. Call for plot availability at 569-2344.
We sell native plants and seeds for back yard gardens and for larger restoration projects. The use of native plants in the landscape can promote healthy populations of birds, butterflies and other wildlife. Native plants are adapted to this area, and require less inputs of fertilizer, pesticide, and water.
1205 S. Buckeye Ln.
Goshen, KY 40026
(502) 439-9033
margaret@dropseednursery.com
Garden Talk with Cindi Sullivan
This site created by the University of Kentucky Department of Horticulture links to thousands of pages of plant information.
Hotter Times Landscaping
This is a small scale Native Landscaping Service that specializes in the development of landscaping which utilizes predominantly species and cultivars which are native to kentucky. Permaculture and extensive knowledge of the regions ecology as well as upwards of 10 years experience landscaping are employed. You will use less water on your landscape, spend less time "fussing" with it, and be able to contribute to the restoration of the regions vanishing diversity. Various levels of consultation are available - basic consultation, basic consultation+yard planting, habitat restoration and the climate changers package.
222 Choctaw Rd.
Louisville, KY 40207
(502)592-7160
hottertimes@gmail.com
Jefferson County Cooperative Extension Service
"Kentucky Cooperative Extension is the educational resource for all Kentuckians that serves as a catalyst to build better communities and improve quality of life." The Cooperative Extension Service is especially strong in providing information on horticulture and agriculture as well as soil testing.
Urban Government Center
810 Barret Avenue
Louisville, KY 40204-1782
(502) 569-2344
"Lawn Care for Cleaner Air" includes various types of landscaping that visually enhance the property with very minimal use of gasoline-powered equipment such as lawn mowers, string trimmers, leaf blowers, etc.
Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District
850 Barret Ave.
Louisville, KY 40204
(502) 574-6000
Louisville Diversified Services Enabling Garden
Located on the Campus of the Ursuline Sisters on Lexington Road, the LDS Enabling Garden "serves as a place where people with disabilities can garden, interact with the wider community, and enjoy the outdoors in a way that most of us take for granted."
410 West Chestnut Street, Suite 900
Louisville, KY 40202
(502) 581-0658
"Louisville Green is a fertilizer made of organic, nutrient rich and highly treated solids left over after municipal wastewater treatment. This processed by-product can be recycled and applied as a fertilizer to improve and maintain productive soils and stimulate plant growth."
(502) 459-2181
You can purchase rich compost and quality hardwood bark mulch in bulk quantities at the Louisville Zoo on spring Saturdays, April 7, 14, 21 and 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Make your purchases at the ticket windows (in front of the Zoo entrance gates) and then collect your mulch or compost in the Zoo’s bus parking lot.
1100 Trevilian Way
Louisville, KY 40213
(502) 459-2181
Native plants of Kentucky
- Roadside use of native plants in Kentucky (US Dept of Transportation)
- Kentucky Native Plant Society
- Kentucy Native Plant Evaluation (Univ. of Kentucky, College of Agriculture)
- Kentucky Rare Plant Database (KY State Nature Preserves Commission)
- Kentucky Trees (Univ of Kentucky, Dept of Horticulture)
New Earth sells supplies for hydroponic, indoor and organic gardens, as well as greenhouses.
9806 Taylorsville Rd.
Louisville, KY 40299
(502) 261-0005
Phoenix Hill Farmers' Market
We are one of the newest farmers' markets in Louisville and are a member of Kentucky Proud. Our opening day is Tuesday April 24 and we will be open every Tuesday from 3 to 7 p.m. from 4/24 to 10/30/07. Our vendors will be selling vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, baked goods, plants and cut flowers.
829 E. Market St.
Louisville, KY 40204
(502)583-7133
phoenixhillassociation@juno.com
St. Peter Claver Community Garden
ACTIVE Louisville collaborated with the Louisville Metro Housing Authority, the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD), the Jefferson County Cooperative Extension Service, the Presbyterian Community Center, and several Louisville Metro Government departments to develop a community and educational garden on the grounds of the St. Peter Claver Community Center in the heart of the Smoketown Neighborhood. The first seeds were planted this spring in plots adopted by community members, the Presbyterian Child Development Center, Meyzeek Middle School, the Presbyterian Community Center and Bates Memorial Baptist Church. Community garden plots are available for the use of neighborhood residents, and community groups are welcome to explore programming opportunities with us. For more information contact ACTIVE Louisville's Grants Coordinator Jennifer Clark at 819-7881 or activelouisville@gmail.com.