Episode 10: A Field Trip to Broken Arrow

15 March 2025

We visit one of the Northeast ’s good post for unique and amazing plants

You ’ve heard us let the cat out of the bag about our best-loved place to corrupt plants before , so today we ’re have you to Broken Arrow Nursery with us ! Located in Hamden , Connecticut , this little retail garden center / grower particularise in Tree and shrubs you ’ve never heard of — much less see — before . We ’ll purge their HUGE catalog to highlight some of these interesting offerings before maneuver to the nursery to workshop , and then we ’ll check in with gardener - extraordinaire , Andy Brand to see if the industrial plant in our cart are awesome or … terrible .

Expert : Andy Brand , nursery director for Broken Arrow Nursery .

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Our first thought when seeing this plant: How can this possibly be a birch tree? But it is! ‘Trost Dwarf’ European white birch (Betula pendula ‘Trost Dwarf’) has incredible texture and is the type of plant that will impress even the most plant-savvy gardener.

Danielle usually doesn’t break out into a spontaneous dance, but when she read the plant tag for ‘Twinkle Toes’ Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica ‘Twinkle Toes’) she couldn’t help herself.

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What’s better than visiting your favorite nursery and finding all sorts of new treasures? Well, having the man in charge of that nursery tell you tips and tricks about each of those treasures. Here, Broken Arrow Nursery manager Andy Brand tells Steve how not to kill his recent purchases.