There are only a handful of stores where I know I will be greeted and welcomed and that what ensues will always be a good experience. The Corner Store Garden Center in Ruckersville is such a place.
Garden Stores are super busy this time of the year and most don’t have the time or take time to stop and chat with customers and offer advice. When I need a little advice, I know the store owners, the Lamms, would help me. Even though they are busy as beavers, they always take the time to tell me which cucumbers to plant or what squash does best in local gardens and when to put in green beans.
The Corner Store Garden Supply opened in 1996, next door to Sheetz. They now have one of the best garden supply stores anywhere. Always friendly, always helpful.
The specialty at The Corner Store is helping to create beautiful gardens.
“Creating a beautiful garden is both an art and a science,” they say. “Our products are chosen with care to ensure that both the artist and the scientist in you will find quality and value that leads to sheer beauty.”
“We work with high quality, local growers to find spectacular flower plants and hardy vegetable plants for the garden throughout the spring and summer.
The Corner Store also encourages and helps customers plant Monarch Gardens. Since milkweeds and nectar sources are declining due to development and the widespread use of herbicides in croplands, pastures, and roadsides, the Lamms help their customers create “Monarch Waystations” (monarch habitats) in home gardens, at schools, businesses, and on other unused plots of land.
The Corner Store at 7070 Seminole Trail is a short drive from Charlottesville, about 8 miles north of the airport, beside Sheetz.
Call them at (434) 985-7818 with gardening questions or for more information.
