Just a wonderful place! So many plant choices and varieties as well as some unique items and foods…read morein the shop. The staff were friendly and very helpful. Would highly recommend!

well ive been thru horrendous childbirth, pancreatitis,& 3 hip replacements. nothing left me…read morebending over & wretching like their portapotties. even tho it's an hours drive, took my 2 friends to see this place which i have grown to love and they were sick of hearing me talk about it. Shakespeare once penned "to thine own self be true." i would pen this as "keep thine own manure to thyself." have been going here for years BECAUSE ITS UNUSUAL.BECAUSE ITS HIGH END. yet nature called this time. when i asked about a restroom they pointed me to the back where the porta potties are. the first one i opened was simply a predessor of what was to come. the other two left me w an impossible choice. i was trying not to dry heave entering the chosen one which was a slim comparison of the lesser of the other 2 evils. by the time i got to the front entrance where the car was parked i was bent over the car holding onto dear life with persistant vomiting onto the gravel. i felt so pretty. my friends would not go to lunch as planned as their description of my dryheaving in the car & my green face did not lend itself to eating. to not describe these portolets is not spareing you dear reader, but myself from the visuals that would prompt unyielding dryheaving every. single. time. that i think about this.my problem with this: i have a pretty strong stomach. my dad in the medical field would come home for dinner & while we were eating could easily talk about such subjects as pus. im no stranger when it comes to intestinal fortitude. these portolets were otherwordly disgusting, which to me were a complete insult to their customers who are spending small fortunes. i have never left there spending less than $300.00. and I'm on a pretty tight budget but I plan & save to come here. and most of their customers did not fall off the turnip truck or are backwoods farmers looking for something "purdy." show some respect to your customers. you want me to spend $250. 00 on some little garden ornament then clean up your act. make sure you use a real bathroom before coming here. "to thine own manure be true."

Lovely family owned nursery tucked into a very cute Hamden neighborhood…read more Very reasonably priced. I ended up buying more than I expected as everything was so beautiful and the prices were so reasonable

Paraduse Nursery is a wonderful Hamden asset. The atmosphere is professional, warm and welcoming…read more Owner Mary goes out of her way to help her customers and prices are affordable. Definitely a winner!

Very nice staff and collection of more unusual varietals of plants. Good selection of Christmas…read moreTrees. They've even hosted yoga here in the summer months!

Broken Arrow Nursery states in their brochure that they offer a 1 year guarantee on plants…read morepurchased. They actually don't. We purchased 2 plants last summer-1 thrived and other hasn't. They were planted in the same spot. We requested an exchange or healthier plant in place of the weaker plant. Request was denied, with explanation being that weaker plant had some growth. No interest in customer satisfaction for a $39 plant. Shame on them! Andi C

Looking for beautiful looking flowers or vegetables for that garden?!?!? Check out these guys. I've…read morebeen going to them for YEARS! Right off of Route 63! Not only do they grow fantastic things in their greenhouses, they are the nicest people around!! Grab a wagon and fill it up!!! They have great sales as well, and discount products every one in a while and you can get an awesome deal. I love this place and Farmer Bill's videos are great!

Hollandia nursery has the most beautiful products around. We bought a brand-new build with not a…read moresingle shrub. Eugene designed a beautiful plan for us which we are implementing it in stages as our budget allows. Euguene walked our property, so he was able to best design with products conducive to our very windy hill top and dry shallow soil bed. The installation so far has been is exceptional and his crews are very, very hardworking and professional. We continue to work with Eugene and Kathy to make our vision of a beautiful property come to life.

Hollandia is a local treasure. Great plants, cheerful young staff, knowledgeable botanists and…read morestaff who will happily drop their watering chores to help customers find the plant they are searching for. Always. I've been shopping here for over twenty years. Today, however, I had an unfortunate run in with Mr Grouch on his golf cart. It seems I broke the rules. When driving in the " back way" we saw the exact shrub ( a massive dappled willow /pictured below) we came to buy. So, instead of parking the car, getting a wheeled cart and returning back to the plant, we stopped, put the four foot tall shrub into the car and drove around to pay. For those who don't know the layout, Hollandia improved their parking a few years ago. Instead of limiting parking to the front of the building, they have created a massive parking lot deep into the back of the nursery where the commercial vehicles can access their big orders. It is a huge operation. This is an improvement for those of us who usually buy as much as we can fit into our cars. But, I will grant, that it also exposes the operation to potential shoplifting as cars are now permitted into the yard itself. Today, though, my 85 year old husband and I decided we could eliminate the usual park, get cart, return back across yard to get shrub, pay, return to car, load shrub. You'd have thought we sprayed Round Up on the annuals. Old Mr Grouchy explained that this is not what is done. I asked, " Do you really want me to return the plant, get a cart, pick up the plant all the way on the other side of the yard and return to the same spot where we are standing?" I thought he might be inclined to give a senior citizen like himself a bit of a break with the usual routine. Guess not. He explained that he was even older ( as he is sitting in his golf cart) and that a lot of 80 years olds shop there and observe the rules. Well...this one didn't and won't ever again. Good bye Hollandia. Love the plants, love the staff but the boss is a small minded lout. It seemed far more important for him to chastise us for breaking the rules than to have been understanding of our particular method of purchase.

ORIGIN: Kasha and David Furman founded a nursery dedicated…read moreto Chinese tree peonies on their residential property in 1989. CONCEPT: The nursery and garden, Cricket Hill Garden, was one of the first nurseries in the U.S. to offer "true-to-name" Chinese tree peonies to home gardeners and landscape designers. Names such as "Tree Lotus on Icy Mountain" and "Red Cloud reflected in Snow" evoke the imagination and for me add to the charm of these peonies. EXPERIENCE: One of the most attractive features of Cricket Hill Garden is the ability to observe and gain insight about how to best support peony flourishing in northwest Connecticut. With decades of peony growing experience, the family has established nationally-recognized expertise. A wide range of blooming peonies as well as hard-to-find fruit trees can be picked up at the nursery at Cricket Hill Garden, while others can be ordered for fall shipment. A sense of what is available can be found on the Cricket Hill Garden's website (www.treepeony.com). TIPS: Check out the website's events page as well; the Furmans help educate others about optimal growing conditions. The Furman family welcome visitors to their flower garden Wednesday-Saturday, between 10 and 4. There, a variety of peonies, including tree, intersectional, and herbaceous, can be seen in bloom each spring. Reports of blooms can be found on the garden's Instagram account.

Beautiful during PEONY season, and top customer service all year long…read more Family run with the best product in the world.

Cosmo's Landscaping & Nursery is a family-owned business -- two brothers (Carmelo and Cosimo) and a…read moreson (Alex) are regularly on site. Being both local residents and nurserymen for decades, they are very knowledgeable about shrubs and trees that thrive in the area, as well as potential diseases and treatments. But what I like most is how friendly and trustworthy they are. Regardless of your needs, Cosmo's is positioned to help, with annuals, perennials, shrubs, ornamentals, and trees, as well as amendments, mulch, stonework and even produce! The family helped us restore a hundred foot long section of meadow with native trees and close variants the past year and the support, care, and reasonable installation costs made the experience positive.

Wow!! I always heard about what a great Nursery this was and I am so glad I went. Alex (Mr Green…read moreThumb) was awesome. He helped me pick out the correct plants and explained in detail how to care for them. He was patient and very knowledgeable in all aspects. Cosmo and Carmelo the owners were also there and made you feel like you were at home! If you need any plants or landscaping needs you have to stop by and ask for Mr Green Thumb (Alex) he will take great care of you. Thanks Alex, Cosmo and Carmelo for a great experience I will be back again soon!

We really like the whole team of employees at Stecks, they do our lawn care and maintenance, snow…read moreplowing, and are always there to help if we even have issues outside their scope. They are not only a nursery and lawn care they also design upscale beautiful backyards from pools, fire pit, to bbq areas. Highly recommend

I had a great experience yesterday with my entire family at Steck's Nursery. No pressure with…read moresomeone all over you at all. We picked out some beautiful ornamental grasses that were nicely discounted. The staff, including a very helpful gentleman, were super friendly and even loaded the plants into our vehicle with care. I would definitely recommend Steck's Nursery and plan on visiting again soon!