Corn Hill Nursery

Owners

Bob and Kathleen Osborne

Brief history

Planting now for about 32 years, but officially in business for the past 30, the farm that’s home to the nursery was once a retirement property for Osborne’s dad, the late Robert Osborne. The shallow soil proved to be incredibly rich, and Bob Osborne understood that if he wanted to realize his dream of becoming a farmer, it was a good time to leave his furniture-making and take the plunge. The result was Corn Hill Nursery, and fruit trees were the original focus in the early days. More lines were added as the business grew from a quarter of an acre to its present size of 85 acres in production, and about six acres of containers.

Description

Corn Hill Nursery provides hardy, acclimated nursery stock 
for the colder areas
 of Canada and the United States.
The nursery offers about a thousand varieties of material – shrubs, trees, vines, fruit trees, small fruits and herbaceous perennials (no annuals), and grows the largest selection found anywhere in the Maritimes. We have a loyal staff, many of whom have worked here for 20 yrs. At peak season we have about 30 employees that dedicates its efforts to provide you with healthy, high quality plants.

In addition to our retail store, you can have lunch at our Cedar Café. Stroll through our huge plant selection then settle in with a coffee and a good gardening book or examine the Marr Collection in our upstairs gallery, a display of everything a farm family would need at the turn of the century.