Garden Center Recommendation?
Can anyone recommend a moderately priced garden center in Brooklyn? I live in Fort Greene and we have a couple cute small garden shops, but they’re expensive. I’m wondering if there are large garden centers further out in, Brooklyn, similar to those you find in the suburbs.
Can anyone recommend a moderately priced garden center in Brooklyn? I live in Fort Greene and we have a couple cute small garden shops, but they’re expensive. I’m wondering if there are large garden centers further out in, Brooklyn, similar to those you find in the suburbs.
Brooklyn Terminal Market is okay but boring. Shannon is okay too….but boring. Home Depot and Lowe’s are pushing these businesses out because they all carry the same boring stuff and Home Depot and Lowes can sell for cheaper and don’t even care about the quality of the plants…it’s all about volume. The nursery on Atlantic under the Williamsburg Bank is overpriced. There is nursery on Caton and E. 7 (again standard stuff but better than Shannon.) We need a good nursery in Brooklyn. I am lucky enough to have a sister who is a local professional gardner and she goes out to these great wholesale nursery’s on Long Island. I’ve gone with her and you really can’t compare any of the above nursery’s to them for quality and quantity of species. So with all that information in hand…hire a good gardner and have them purchase the plants for you or keep buying mundane….or hope that my sister’s dream of opening a “quality nursery” in Brooklyn comes to fruition….
mill lane nursery still owes me $200 on a “guaranteed” sky rocket spruce that died within a year….
Try Mill Lane Nursery, 1875 Ralph Ave (at Flatlands). 718-241-3172. I found a wide selection of plants there, decently priced too.
oops, I got my streets confused…the good suburban style nursery across from Greenwood is Shannon on Fort Hamilton Parkway.
Also Shannon Nursery on Fort Hamilton Parkway. Great outdoor selections as well as several, awesome greenhouses.
Also, the farmers’ market is pretty good.
I love that place in the triangle park on Flatbush near the clocktower…but there’s also the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Eastern Pkwy — the plant shop has really good quality plants (which is not always the case with Home Depot et al) for reasonable $$ and a discount if you’re a member of the garden. The bonus there is the money goes to a great garden. They have a huge fabulous (and frenzied) plant sale every May.
http://www.bbg.org
And there’s a very nice suburban sort of nursery on MacDonald Ave across the street from Greenwood Cemetary.
The Lowes and Home Depot are good for hardscape (brick, fence, etc.), but the plant selection and quality are not good.
There’s also Lowe’s and Home Depot. There’s a new Home Depot in Bed-Stuy with a fairly large Garden Center. Gowanus Nursery on 3rd St is pretty large, but might have more in common with the expensive ones in your nabe.