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The plant store also o ers locally sourced items from local vendors such as ceramics.
Potted Nursery o ers plants ranging from $14-$375.
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Potted Nursery specializes in exotic plants, soil After ve years of a landscaping business and years of self-taught gardening, Alex Drisaldi planted new roots with Potted Nursery in Decem- ber 2024, co-owning it with Charles Shockey. “My mom was always an avid gardener, so I got a lot of that from her,” Drisaldi said. What’s special about it?
Located in Pinehurst, Potted Nursery is owned by Alex Drisaldi and Charles Shockey.
places like Thailand, Malaysia and New York. In addition to its rotating plants, Potted Nursery has a plant request book in which customers can leave their contact information to be contacted when a requested plant becomes available. Staying local As an avid gardener, Drisaldi said the most common mistakes people make with plants include either overwatering or using the wrong soil. For example, plants in the anthurium family are unable to thrive in dirt. Instead, such plants are potted in the nursery’s in-house soil blend. The nursery carries its soil for $16 per quart and $40 per gallon and teaches soil classes for $35. Drisaldi said he has plans to o er more classes.
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Fully designed and decorated by Drisaldi and Shockey, Potted Nursery o ers a wide range of exotic plants with 400-500 plants carried at a time. “Tropicals are really what we carry,” Drisaldi said. “I’ll bring in a few oddballs when I see them.” Specializing in anthurium, philodendrons and alocasias, Drisaldi said Potted Nursery strives to have a variety of plants imported from vendors in
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