Keiner's Nursery

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FALL IS A GREAT TIME TO PLANT 
 
 
 
 
 
NURSERY IS OPEN Sat/Sun 9-4
We welcome you to stop down and see us. 
 
 
 
Quality Trees, Shrubs, and Perennials
 

 
Welcome to Keiner's Nursery, Slocum Township, PA
We are a small family-owned and operated nursery offering the high quality locally grown plants to the serious gardener for the home landscape,or place of business.  Our commitment is to provide you with healthy, true-to-name plants that are disease and pest free. Every plant has our personal care.
 
Plants are offered in containers to lessen transplant shock at any time of the year.  Most of our plants
                                 sell for $4.97 at all times.  We also have larger plants and trees that are priced accordingly
    
 
  

 

We offer plants that attract Butterflies to those that are Deer resistant.


We are growing our plants right here on the property.  Come and visit to see what we offer. 
Ornamental shrubs, Flowering trees, Evergreens, Groundcovers, Ornamental grasses, Japanese Maple.
 

Plants we sell are grown here in zone 5B of Northeast Pennsylvania, many will survive in zone 3 and 4.
 
The 2003 US National Arboretum "Web Version" of the 1990 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Check the color of the section in your area of the map with the color key below.

The USDA Hardiness Zone Map divides North America into 11 separate zones; each zone is 10°F warmer (or colder) in an average winter than the adjacent zone. If you see a hardiness zone in a catalog or plant description, chances are it refers to the USDA map.

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What are Zone Maps?

Gardeners need a way to compare their garden climates with the climate where a plant is known to grow well. That's why climate zone maps were created. Zone maps are tools that show where various permanent landscape plants can adapt. If you want a shrub, perennial, or tree to survive and grow year after year, the plant must tolerate year-round conditions in your area, such as the lowest and highest temperatures and the amount and distribution of rainfall.

The 1990 USDA Hardiness Zone Map

The USDA Hardiness Zone Map is one of several maps developed to provide this critical climate information. The USDA map is the one most gardeners in the eastern United States rely on, and the one that most national garden magazines, catalogs, books, and many nurseries currently use. This map divides North America into 11 separate zones. Each zone is 10?F warmer (or colder) in an average winter than the adjacent zone. (In some versions of the map, each zone is further divided into "a" and "b" regions.)

Great for the East

The USDA map does a fine job of delineating the garden climates of the eastern half of North America. That area is comparatively flat, so mapping is mostly a matter of drawing lines approximately parallel to the Gulf Coast every 120 miles or so as you move north. The lines tilt northeast as they approach the Eastern Seaboard. They also demarcate the special climates formed by the Great Lakes and by the Appalachian mountain ranges.

Zone Map Drawbacks

But this map has shortcomings. In the eastern half of the country, the USDA map doesn't account for the beneficial effect of a snow cover over perennial plants, the regularity or absence of freeze-thaw cycles, or soil drainage during cold periods. And in the rest of the country (west of the 100th meridian, which runs roughly through the middle of North and South Dakota and down through Texas west of Laredo), the USDA map fails.

  


Contact us
Keiner's Nursery
1713 Slocum Road
Wapwallopen  PA  18660
570-868-6023
 
We are open Saturday and Sunday 9:00 to 4:00
or call ahead, you may only get an answering machine, but we will return your calls, as we are usually around in the evening through the week.
 
DRIVING DIRECTIONS:
 
From Interstate 81, Exit 159 southbound; Turn left at top of ramp, right at next stop sign onto Church Road, past PENNDOT shed on left to 4-way Stop; turn right onto Blytheburn Road; approximately 9 tenths of mile bear left onto Slocum Road; about 2.5 miles to Stop at Slocum Corners, go straight, Pizza shop just after intersection.
Approximately 7 tenths of mile to driveway on left.
 
From Interstate 81, exit 159 Northbound;  left at top of ramp over bridges. Follow Church Road west past PENNDOT shed on left to 4-way Stop; turn right onto Blytheburn Road; approximately 9 tenths of mile bear left onto Slocum Road; about 2.5 miles to Stop at Slocum Corners, go straight, Pizza shop just after intersection.
Approximately 7 tenths of mile to driveway on left.
 
From Wilkes-Barre, Nanticoke areas:
Follow Roberts St from Nanticoke or Middle Road from Wilkes-Barre area to Alden. Turn left onto Alden Mountain Road, follow to top around horseshoe bend,
Turn right at VFW and Blue Ridge Pizza onto Blue RidgeTrail follow this approximately 1 mile, turn left following Blue Ridge Trail for another mile to Slocum Corners.  Turn right on Slocum Road, Slocum Deli on right and storage sheds on left.  Approximately 7 tenths of mile to driveway on left.
 
From Berwick/Nescopeck areas:
Through Nescopeck turn left toward Wapwallopen along the river, follow PA Route 239 north to Ruckle Hill Road (Council cup campground sign) approximately 5.8 miles (Ruckle Hill Road changes to Slocum Road at Slocum Twp line) to driveway on right.
 
From Route 11 and Schickshinny areas:
Follow PA Route 239 South through Mocanaqua along river to Ruckle Hill Road, then refer to directions from Nescopeck.
 
 
 
 
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 From Google Earth maps Latitude and Longitude
41degrees, 08 minutes, 11.66 seconds North
76degrees, 01 minutes, 50.00 seconds West