Root. Grow. Give!

Keeping a piece of Viroqua history alive, Thoreau’s Garden operates a small garden center, houseplant shop, floral business, and educational center for our local community, our mission is to inspire everyone to garden, grow medicine, and share the beauty of our natural world. Check out the Driftless Folk School website to find our workshops! https://www.driftlessfolkschool.org/classes

We are a small business going into our third season. We grow as many of our plants as we can from seeds and cuttings to reduce the “mileage” this also means you can let us know what you’d like to see growing, it also means we are not carrying trees or shrubs at this time.

Thoreau’s Garden Is A Social Enterprise Of Thoreau College

We offer a variety of houseplants year round, annuals, perennials, vegetable starts, herbs, medicinal, and native plants in the spring and summer, salad and micro greens in the winter, and more for our local community. Come check out the shop!

To order flowers please call (608) 637-8200

Seasonal Specials

January 2023

Spring starts in January at the greenhouse! Check out Driftless Folk School's website to find the classes we're offering at the greenhouse this spring! https://www.driftlessfolkschool.org/classes

This February at Thoreau's Garden, chocolate covered strawberry pre-orders for Valentines Day are back! Order by Feb. 8th! Click here to order or for my info https://forms.gle/cfyyqBkWAeGfz8U9A

Our current hours are Mon. and Wed.-Sat. 10am-4pm Sun. 11am-2pm, closed Tuesday!

HOUSE PLANTS

We carry a wide variety of all types of plants, from indoor plants and house plants to succulents. We've got them all! Fresh from our greenhouse.

BEDDING PLANTS

Most common are the summer bedding plants such as petunias and begonias. But there are so many species to choose from in our greenhouse.

VEGETABLES

Shop for high yield vegetable seeds and plants that are perfect for your home garden. We are a leading provider of plants for your vegetable garden or herb garden.