While I was visiting my parents on the east coast, I was hoping to take a short day trip over to Terrain at Styer's. I had been hearing so much about this garden center's many workshops and landscape design services, that I was eager to check it out in person. A two-and-a-half hour drive later, my mom and I got the chance to look around.
The grounds are pretty extensive providing a real showcase for the aspiring gardener—with rows and rows of dirty little bulbs and stacks of tools and pots all around—as well as the gourmand, with jars of compote, pickles, jams, and wooden utensils collected in pitchers. In the shop, the greenhouse-like feel of Terrain is a fun departure from their Anthropologie sister brand. It's a much more luxurious, conceptual space with a skincare department, a terrarium workshop, a holiday trimming wonderland, and a fantastic cafe serving up salads, soups, hot dishes, and pie.
I was taken with the enormous selection of bulbs and took home some narcissus to force during the winter, along with Seven Fires
, bars of Saipua for Terrain soap (for gift add-ons), and a few holiday cards.
(The cafe starts each meal with the sweetest little boule baked in a clay flower pot accompanied by sweet butter and flaked pink sea salt. Yum!)
[1-6. c. lynn]
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