Paxton Gate

Paxton Gate calls itself an "eccentric garden store." The plants are in the back but to get there you'll have to navigate a wall of moose and deer heads, Japanese sheers and Slovakian watering cans, tables stacked with odd jars and bowls, intriguing bits of furniture, teas and tea accessories, preserved bugs and butterflies and the odd river rock or two. This is the rare case where eccentric is an understatement.

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