I'm a regular at this Stein's and it's an okay place for plants, gardening supplies, seeds, bird stuff and all the things that make your yard pretty. Agreeing with those who say the employees are very nice and helpful! That's noticed and appreciated! Also agreeing that the prices are very high. There's been a few times when the price at the register rings up differently than the deal advertised in store, which is always frustrating. While their selection is large, more and more this Stein's doesn't have the native or other plants that I'm looking for. Still an a-okay stop on the south side. read more

I liked the one worker I encountered, she was friendly, helpful, and efficient. She was also my age and I really needed a healthy strong young person to wrangle the dirty bag of soil into my cart and into my car. I'll be happier next time because I'll have prepared my car for the stuff I get that is stored outside and I'll get two smaller bags rather than the better deal with the larger size. I thought there was a fair selection of plants. read more

Stein's Garden & Home - Nurseries & Gardening Near Me - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Every year in honor of my late grandmother's birthday, I get an African Violet (one of her favorite flowers). I had gone to a couple other nurseries in town and found African Violets but couldn't find a self-watering African Violet pot. Enter Stein's. Located in a building that reminds me of a 1970's drug store, we weren't sure what we'd find. Happily, we found exactly what we were looking for! They have some plants and floral items at the front of the store, but venturing further into the store we found a nursery area with live plants and a decent pot selection. And, most importantly, self watering pots of varying sizes! We were able to find a pot that would suit our needs at a reasonable price and decided to get an African Violet from them to boot. They had a nice selection of a few African Violets of varying colors. After making our selection, we made our way to the checkout where we received really lovely and quite friendly service. Looking forward to coming back and doing a proper wander! read more

Stein's Garden & Home - Nurseries & Gardening Near Me - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Poor customer service, disdainful and rude. Lost (another) customer. Felt staff thought service was an imposition on their time.

During my three visits this spring, I left empty handed. There was certainly a lot of plant stock, but some prices were quite high, plants were disorganized, many were bone dry, and some were not priced. I wondered if there was a challenge getting enough help to maintain what they're offering. read more

Steins- what am I going to do with you? The three stars is for your employees and some of your special unique hard to find items. I am a huge flower and gardening person. And I come because you have a great selection. But, the prices are a little over the top. I have to either wait until there's a sale or don't shop at all. Your employees are five stars. They are always smiling and welcoming and helpful and kind. And in the store you can find some unique items that you are not going to find at other stores. It's fun to eye shop there if nothing else. But again the prices. :( Even on sale, items are barely affordable. But everything is displayed so nicely that you're very tempted. I think you would do more business if your prices were just a little more within the range of normal human affordability . I am very torn as I do love this store though. read more

Stein's Garden & Home - Nurseries & Gardening Near Me - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Great place for your garden needs. They will have those things you just can't find at the big box stores. Locally owned business is always good to support. You may think they are expensive but you would be surprised to find that they are competitively priced and some times even cheaper. read more

Stein's Garden & Home - Steins - Nurseries & Gardening Near Me - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

I adore Stein's. Plants, lawn & gardening supplies, home goods, patio furniture, grills, pet supplies - Stein's has it all. It's always good to support a Wisconsin company, too. There are plenty of convenient locations for Stein's throughout the Milwaukee area, and with our recent move, this location is now the closest for us. Go early in the morning on the weekends to beat the crowd and be prepared to leave with a few more things than you planned, because you'll probably find something cool that wasn't on your list. The customer service is always friendly, pleasant, and helpful. The prices are reasonable - when they have items on sale, the prices are better than most places. Sign up for a rewards card (free!) and accumulate points to earn rewards and receive emails to notify you of sales and weekly ads. Stein's is our go-to place for our plant and garden needs! read more

This location is also the company headquarters. This store gets the best merchandise and may have stuff that the other stores don't because they are testing its marketability here. The 108th street store is also a testing guinea pig. Along with the old standbys for outdoor planting, they carry a line of Wisconsin native plants and every year are expanding their succulent selection. 87/2014 read more

Stein's Garden & Home - No, Stein's, you need a drain hole! Way to keep perpetuating the myth! - Nurseries & Gardening Near Me - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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I'm never super impressed with Stein's plant stock - I find it's often dried out and not well taken care of. However, they had been running ads about a big sale on fake Christmas trees and we kind of need a new one so we decided to stop. The stated deal was "lowest prices of the season" with "50% off" trees and an extra 20% off that. Sounds pretty good, no? Actually, no, it was not good. First, the "50% off" is total BS. It's 50% off manufacturer list which is essentially a made up price that no items have ever been sold at. Second, most of the trees looked like garbage - poorly set up and just low quality in most cases. Finally - even with an extra 20%, Steins prices were $60-100 higher for the exact same tree as compared to other stores (Home Depot, At Home, etc). I'll say this - they did have a really good selection of heights, styles and sizes. Each tree was clearly marked with number of lights and branch tips and some even had recordings you could listen to if you wanted more info. Which is good because there wasn't an employee to be seen. You can get the same stuff for less dollars elsewhere - not much reason for me to return. read more

Stopped in today to get some design foam and soil. So excited to see all the new Spring designs being put up!! The employees were great in helping me find what I needed and even gave me a couple tips to make my projects better... Soooo many new bulbs out and beautiful yard sculptures.....oh my how I could feel summer nipping at my heals! This Steins was very clean and had plenty of space to move around, again, the employees are very helpful and knowledgeable.. Parking is plentiful. They have wheelchair accessible doors and parking as well. Definitely a great place to go.... or maybe not ;) ? Make sure you bring extra $$$ forms because you're gonna spend more than you expected!! Lol I love this place!!!! read more

Stein's is really dog friendly and was really sweet to my dog. There is a pet section here so we got some treats and a toy. The staff gave my pup some treats and attention. read more

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This might be the worst place to buy a tree. To be honest, they aren't really in the tree business. My issue here is that they had a lot of trees, but they charge you for basic tree services!!! $5 for shaking, bagging, help loading and a disposal bag? I can understand for the disposal bag, but seriously, make the disposal bag an optional cost. These are standard Christmas tree services that shouldn't be charged for. I was seriously in disbelief. Also, because it was so cold the trees were all frozen and shaped like torpedos. If you're in the torpedo business, you'll probably pick out a great tree, but for people who don't know what makes a good torpedo, it's a crapshoot. I understand it was freezing, but get a heater to help open them up a bit! The smaller lots brought heaters to help open the trees, so Stein should have one too. I'm disappointed with this Stein's selection and services. We bought a tree from Sanfelippo Family Tree Farms just south of Edgerton and they didn't bag the tree, but they certainly had more fair prices and helped us load it on our car. read more

Imagine my distress when I excitedly bought a half priced apple tree, but it didn't fit into my suv. As I kept trying different things, up comes a kind gentlemen. He stated he works at Steins and offered different suggestions; nothing worked. He offered to put the tree in his longer suv and drive 5 miles from the store to my house. Long story short, when I offered to pay him for his time and kindness he explained he was the CEO at Steins. Thank You!!! Steins will continue to get my business. read more

During the week of the highest spike of new cases in Milwaukee, we called many garden stores and couldn't get them to offer a curbside pickup. My partner is immunocompromised and was hoping to grow an herb garden, but isn't able to go indoors. Stein's made the arrangements for us even though they were very busy on a Saturday. Thank you so much for your care, we are overjoyed! read more

Sort of disappointed. I've always though of Stein as a place I could go to get help with my planting and gardening needs. Seems like the only assistance I can ever find in the store comes from a teenager whose knowledge of horticulture is limited to none. I've found that the people at True Value Hardware have more expertise about my gardening needs then Stein. Unfortunately True Value doesn't have the extensive live inventory carried at Stein. Edit: Don't expect to find much in the line of gardening supplies during the holiday season. Stein's turns into a Christmas trinket store. read more

Bought brand new Christmas lights and there are no instructions inside the box and non of the lights work.

The Wauwatosa Steins Garden and Home Store is our first choice for nursery plants and some home decor too. We are new homeowners in Elm Grove,WI...with a blank canvas for our new gardens. The garden area employees at this store are both friendly and knowledgable about which plants to choose for deer resistance and climate....and choosing from a variety of unusual new plants is a pleasure ! We recommend this Steins Garden and Home Store highly. read more

Expect to work long hours with low pay and little appreciation. Expect to do the most work while you watch all the regular employees who have been there since day one stand around and do nothing but socialize with each other. It seems as if the majority of them only come to work to simply socialize with each other, while putting all the work loads on new employees. Stein's has aloud these bad work ethics to take over in past few years with little care to change things. read more

I really love this store. I absolutely love all of the decorations and home Decor. There are things here that I can't find at other places and I like that. Everything is super cute! Their displays make you want to buy EVERYTHING ! Lol The only thing is it's a little pricey. The staff here were all helpful. I was greeted by everyone and everyone asked me if I needed help with anything and they were very nice and friendly about it. Good place to go for things for the home :) read more

It's not the abandoned fast food joints that are bringing South 27th St. down. It's this weak excuse for a Stein's. I go to Stein's every year, late in the season to fill out my garden. Generally it's a pretty good place to find reasonably priced plants that are decent quality. I guess that only applies to the Highway 100 location on the south side. We came to this location simply because we were in the area. We arrived shortly after 7 on a Saturday evening. It was slow and they were fully staffed, yet many of the workers were standing around talking. This usually doesn't bother me, but when you are sitting outside with a hose in your hand while plenty plants in here desperately need watering, it's not a good look. I knew exactly what I wanted when I came in, yet the time it took me just to comb through all the dead and dying plants was well over 30 minutes. I had to go to the Highway 100 location a few days later, since I couldn't find Shasta Daisies that were in good enough condition. This is a pretty common flower, I've been buying the for years and never had a problem finding some that are good enough to buy. I also had issues with the employees inside the store. We put a few plants in a normal shopping cart and decided to shop the inside for some things we needed. When we grabbed everything else, we were close to the registers so we decided to check out inside. With the look we got from the old lady at the register, you'd think we were robbing the place. I did everything I could to help this lady out, I picked up everything heavy items and faced the bar codes towards her so it was easy to scan while my wife placed every non-heavy, non-plant item on the counter. We had about six small plants, and instead of putting them on the counter and getting dirt all over it, I just picked them up and faced the barcode towards her to scan. That's when she rudely slapped a cardboard box on the counter and said "Put them here". I don't know if she had a bad day or if it was menopause, whatever it was it didn't feel good when I'm spending well over $100 at her place of work. A simple "Please" or "Thank You" would have sufficed, but that seemed to be beyond her scope. As we were leaving I checked the receipt for a name so I could call the manager and complain, but sadly it was missing. I guess this crappy Yelp review will have to do. Save yourself time and trouble and shop at the Highway 100 location instead. read more

I ws dissappointed in Steins. The prices are a bit high, and the quality of product is not great. I can be hard to return things here also. I'm not sure why, but whenever I buy plants from Steins, they die. I don't have that same problem at some other stores, but here I do. I do like some of the novelty gifts you can find in the store, but overall it's not my first choice. read more

I'm a gardener, but I'm not obsessed. I find what I need here, and I'm pretty sure the obsessed people find what they are looking for, too. The prices are high, always, but the quality of everything here, including soil and plants, is pretty good. The staff are fairly friendly, albeit mostly high schoolers that couldn't give two hoots about your blossom end rot and don't have a clue what it is. There are usually a couple of resident experts, but you may have to ask around to get them. I also usually take a look here if I'm looking for just that perfect decorating item I haven't been able to find, or a gift for grandma. They have a huge section of every store dedicated to the gifts which range from accent items, bowls, vases, candles, fake flowers, and accent tables. The name "garden and gifts" really does say it all. read more

There is an array of beautiful flowers and plants. They have everything you need for creating the perfect garden. The staff are really nice and very helpful. I've noticed they have a fairy collection. The next time that I go there, I'm going to get the fairy collection plant. It's really small and adorable. read more

I used to know that they would always have unique window lights, but was told at two locations, no more, new buyer! Very disappointed! That was one of my reasons for shopping at steins.Please bring back that stock! I guess i will have to look at another store if not. read more

When garden centers tell you they guarantee their plants, they assume no one would take the time to return one. I finally did because thank goodness I could find my receipt. The guarantee is BS. All marketing , No replacement. Why waste your time. Steins, just shut up about your stupid guarantee!!!!!!!!!!! read more

The products are good, however corporate needs some sensitivity training. Kids are overworked and under paid (they are hired in with the understanding that they will be paid according to agricultural pay (less than minimum wage). Raises are seldom given and knowledge is never appreciated. The uniforms are polyester dark green and absorb the heat on hot days making it unbearable to work in. The air conditioning is only turned on when customers complain, not when you see red faced kids walking around dying from the heat, while corporate works in air conditioning. Kids are fired if they are 1 minute late 3 times. They have trouble keeping good managers. Managers are required to work weekends, while corporate has weekends off. Cashiers are required to count registers at the front of the store, while the store is still open for business, this is a security nightmare waiting to happen! read more

It seems like every time I go to this Stein's, I end up annoyed. So today, I decided was the last trip to this location! We ran in for one item- a set of Easter lights. That they actually had and for a good price. We waited in line behind ONE PERSON for 10 minutes, while the person worked the Customer Service Desk, chatted on the phone, worked the computer, etc. Then we moved lines, which was moving a little faster. Only in that line, to be bumped and bossed around by the guy trying to get wood for another customer who'd paid, who wanted to walk through the check out line instead of around, and take his wood rack with him! And yelled at the clerk who asked him for something, and me and another customer who were trying to leave so he could get through the door first (empty handed- hadn't loaded the wood yet- was too busy yelling at everyone and annoying customers) This isn't the first bad service experience at this store- a couple times during the spring rush, we've been told to go inside for allegedly a faster checkout, only to get the world's slowest and ill trained checkers! And don't ask anyone where something is, or what something is. Or believe that spring bulbs are actually in stock just because they have the "Spring Bulbs have arrived" signs out front! So even though this store is blocks from my house, I have to trek to the 108th St store if I give them my business at all. read more