HARDWICK – English Tea and gardens full of flowers, with a Phlox Fest every August, are featured in the August 22 edition of Stuck in Vermont, when host Eva Sollenberger reports on a visit with Rachel Kane at Summersweet Gardens in East Hardwick.
Summersweet Garden Nursery and Tea Room is featured in the August 22 “Stuck in Vermont” episode.
Summersweet Garden Nursery is a retail and mail-order plant nursery on the fields behind Rachel Kane’s family home, an 1840s brick house at the edge of the village.
The nursery specializes in heirloom and medicinal plants, with a special fondness for tall garden phlox. Eight-hundred varieties of flowers, herbs and shrubs are on offer
An eclectic gift shop specializes in summer hats for both women and men, tea-related items, useful garden tools and more.
A seasonal tearoom serves English Cream Teas in the flower garden or conservatory on summer afternoons.
“Stuck in Vermont” is a Vermont vlog about art, music, obsessions and outsiders in Seven Days.
Find the episode at sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture/video-teatime-at-summersweet-garden-nursery-in-east-hardwick-41655429
Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.
