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!

All their help are so knowledgeable about plants in general and their selection on hand is of the…read morehighest quality

Always new and exciting...brim full of plant ..ideas ..gifts..everyone there is very willing to…read morehelp.

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.

Grow City Depot is a garden center located in Hamden, Connecticut, known for its focus on…read morehydroponics, indoor cultivation supplies, and a diverse selection of houseplants, soils, nutrients, and grow equipment. They serve both beginner and seasoned gardeners, offering a wide range of products from grow lights and planting bags to organic seedlings and hanging baskets, with friendly, knowledgeable staff on hand to offer advice on plant care. My daughter and I stopped by here on our way to a Yelp event, spotted the place, and decided to take a look around. The store was lively, filled with a variety of plants, and everything was kept tidy. The owner was very knowledgeable and eager to chat. Since my mother loves plants, I decided to buy her a gift certificate for Christmas. If you're in the neighborhood and have a green thumb--or know someone who does--this is a great spot to check out.

Great plant store with many special, out of the ordinary plants. The people who work there know…read moreabout plants and are generous with their knowledge. I bought a beautiful and healthy yucca here that was also very well priced. If you're in the market for fertilizers, large transparent pots, and growing media, this is the place to go. I highly recommend Grow City Depot. I support this small business without reservation.

They are the best! Kind, hard working family business…read more Beautiful trees and so many options.

Excellent selection, comparable prices, great people. Open for a very short time after…read moreThanksgiving. Selection is so wonderful it's hard to decide. Overall a wonderful holiday experience!

I am disappointed. I am angry…read more This place is magical, it is very inspiring. A gift to wander through. Beautifully and thoughtfully laid out. Incredibly expensive for the size of plant you get - the minimums for the plugs pretty outrageous and impossible unless your spending thousands of dollars, literally. Yes, they have a plethora of plants that are not sold elsewhere as well as an enormous amount of plants, priced exorbitantly, that are sold everywhere. I started planting my garden this year and spent a hefty sum at Earth Tones two months ago in early May. I hugely hugely regret it. Currently my garden is a collection of plants purchased at three nurseries with Earth Tones being one of the three. Almost every single plant purchased at earth tones is covered with powdery mildew. Three Valeriana officinalis, each planted across a 40 foot expanse - covered in mildew - plants next to them from another nursery - nothing as of now. It started on the two Antennaria plantaginifolia plants, which errupted in a frothy mildew as soon as they started to grow. This mildew is now showing on all the plants I purchased from Earth Tones. I am really upset. This morning, I threw away 70$ worth of plants. I fear I will have to throw away more since it is starting to spread across my garden. The sedges I bought? Dying and so unhappy. The purple love grass. Full of weeds and barely growing. The the plants came with So. Many. Weeds, both visible and invisible seedlings, it is beyond frustrating. It feels super careless, especially at the incredible price point they are selling their plants. Not a single plant from the other nurseries are showing this mildew or struggling, but the plants from ET - it started showing a couple of weeks after they went into the ground. I spent over $500 at Earth Tones and I will never spend another dime. I am hoping I can save the rest of my garden from being infected. My other plants are thriving, my other grasses are exploding with joy. Please be careful when purchasing from them. I do not recommend this nursery or their quality.

What a fantastic nursery. Not your garden variety. Offers a…read morehuge and unique variety of native plants, shrubs, trees, etc. Owners and staff were incredibly helpful and informative

Zentek farm market is tucked away in Cheshire and carries seasonal farm fresh produce. So much…read morebetter than what you find in the grocery stores. Their tomatoes,potatoes,cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, and fruit are always ripe and delicious. When it's corn season, there is nothing better than their sweet corn. They also have a wonderfully selection of pumpkins, and beautiful plants.

Terrible quality. Very expensive. $120 for a christmas tree that i can get down the road for 60…read more How is this place still open?

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.