Stories, tips, and local perspectives from across the Finger Lakes.
Two Gold wins for Best Gardening Store/Nursery (2023 and 2025) is a dominant showing in a category where the Finger Lakes competition is fierce — this is serious gardening country, and the voters know the difference between a garden center that sells plants and one that understands them. Vermi-Green, based on Yellow Mills Road in […]
Canandaigua has no shortage of places to buy plants, but Mayflowers Nursery & Garden Center on Highway 332 has distinguished itself enough to earn 2025 Silver for Best Gardening Store/Nursery from FLX Finest voters who take their gardens seriously. In a region where the growing season is short, the winters are brutal, and the soil […]
Naples is famous for exactly two things: grape pie and the fall foliage that turns the hillsides surrounding this small Bristol Hills village into a postcard every October. Joseph's Wayside Market at 202 South Main Street has built its reputation at the intersection of both — a nursery and garden center that is also a […]
CountryMax is the kind of store that makes perfect sense in the Finger Lakes and almost no sense anywhere else. Part pet store, part farm supply, part garden center — it serves the specific needs of a region where a single customer might be buying chicken feed, a bag of premium dog food, and tomato […]