Have you ever been working in your garden and just needed a few things right now? So what do you do? Well, if you’re like me, you jump in the car (clogs, favorite filthy garden shorts, dirty hands and fingernails and a ponytail as your attire) and head up the road to this great little nursery. Sound familiar?

For me, the nursery up the road is, (did you guess?) Urban Greenary. The Greenary, as I fondly refer to it, is a great little nursery in an area known as Cherry Creek. (Isn’t that just too quaint? It really is called Cherry Creek.) It isn’t your typical nursery though. Here, there are no football field size paved parking lots, unfamiliar sales people or rows of tables with the usual bedding plants and ho hum perennials to choose from. No, this a nursery where you’ll find those trendy up and coming plants you read about in your latest garden magazine, the heritage fruit tree and roses you’ve been searching for or an unusual tree. As soon as you drive in the parking lot, which is not paved I might add, you’re not sure if you’re coming to buy plants or take a peaceful walk through a woodland garden.

Urban Greenary is like a breath of tranquility in a world that’s just way too fast and busy. When you get out of your car you are usually greeted by a voice calling `hello` before you actually see the face it is attached to. This would be Sheena, the owner/operator who knows just about everyone of her customers by name. Before you know it you’re strolling through the paths, pausing for Sheena to show you what has popped up since you were last there, or what new project she’s just finished. With Sheena there’s never a dull moment or lack of creative genius. She is a certified Horticulturist and Arborist, who in less than a year has transformed an overgrown, neglected, five-acre property, into one of the most beautiful nursery settings I have ever visited.

The really amazing part is her ability to get things done with very little outside help or supplies. She is a master of recycling. Fences, containers, windows, scrap wood and logs. You name it and Sheena has used it. I guess that is part of the charm and draw. As if tranquility, setting, certified friendly service, and a unique shopping experience are not enough guess what? You can pause on a great cedar deck for a cappuccino and biscotti or a piece of rhubarb pie. That’s right, you can have a visit, buy plants, trees or seeds, consume your refreshments and jump back in the car ready to hit the garden again when you get home. Oh, and the dirty fingernails and clogs? They don`t matter, Sheena has them too!