North Guilford Nurseries

Summer Hill Nursery is a mid-sized wholesale nursery. The company has been growing quality nursery stock since 1957. It is one of the first New England, Conn., nurseries to grow landscape plants in containers. Its primary customers are independent garden centers and landscapers. It also contracts to do custom propagation for other wholesale growers and produce plants for mail order nurseries and arboreta. Summer Hill Nursery offers more than 1000 varieties of flowering trees, shrubs, groundcovers, broadleaf evergreens, conifers, grasses and hardy bamboo. A large selection of native plants is also a specialty. Summer Hill Nursery is located in Madison, Conn.

Northern Nurseries Winfield is a network of wholesale horticultural distribution centers. It provides a wide range of products that include nursery stock, agricultural chemicals, fertilizers, seeds, and landscape construction materials and tools. It also provides a complete line of golf course accessories. The distribution center serves professional landscapers, nurserymen, ground managers, nursery retailers, municipalities, institutions, cemeteries and golf courses. It has various divisions that include professional turf, pond supplies and landscape lighting. Northern Nurseries, headquartered in Enfield, Conn., has more than eight distribution centers, including Schenectady, Fairport and Cicero, N.Y.; Wind Gap, Pa.; White River Junction, Vt.; Barrington, N.H.; Somerset and Medford, N.J.; and West Suffield, Conn.