Wegman's Nursery

Wonderful selection! Decent prices. Helpful staff. I just Yelped for: nearby nursery, drove here. I'll be back!!! Great selection. Couldn't find herbs. Oh: there's a whole third floor of stuff!! More tomatoes than I've ever seen in one place. No basil? A WALL OF BASIL!!!!! Good selection. I'm a happy camper.

Just had another great experience at Wegman's. Juan is terrifically knowledgeable and helpful. He gave us great advice on lawn issues and plant selection challenges. He listened to our issues, looked at the photos, took into consideration some time constraints we have in getting our yard upgraded and made excellent recommendations that we think will look great. Access to that kind of expertise and the great selection of plants is what keeps us going to them for all of our garden needs.

One of the best local nurseries in the bay area, I come every year for my vegetables. They have some of the best varieties of tomatoes and peppers. Andrew has always been extremely helpful when I want to special order some tomato plants from the grower.

Very healthy plants! The workers there are very knowledgeable about plant care and nice. Bought two multi graft trees from them.

Nice assortment of flowers, staff was helpful as well. Definitely some nice options to choose from.

Andy is amazing and hands-down, the expert on Staghorn Ferns. I brought one up from Los Angeles just so he could mount it. He was professional, friendly, kind, informative, knowledgeable and accommodating. Thank you so much, Andy! Can't wait to see the fern mounted :) Will try to post a photo of the plant once it's been mounted...

Good selection of plants, but expensive. Some of the older stock is extremely pot bound. 1 gallon grass was so root bound that I couldn't get it out of the pot.

I brought my sons to pick up their first indoor plants. 12yo got an indoor ivy. Success. 9 yo got a ficus. Complete failure. Ficus started dropping leaves as soon as we got home. Suspecting lack of light, I moved the new ficus right next to an old ficus which is thriving. The old ficus was bought from OSH. Nothing fancy. We watered both once a week, away from drafty windows, and even tried humidifier, grow lights after the leaf dropping persists. After ten weeks, the ficus is basically dying. I took it back to the nursery. They tried their best to help but revealed to me that these braided ficus don't last very long. I give this a five star because they are a small business and I don't want to hurt them. But I wish they would not sell plants they know won't last. Also they should call a spade a spade. This plant was dead on arrival because the trunk was already dying. It was just a matter of time before the rest of the foliage falls. I would still shop there in order to support a small local business. I just hope they would drop this particular grower. It was a defective product.

I met a friend there and hit the motherlode - they just got their shipment of bare root roses that morning! We were like kids in a candy shop. There was this one guy that was in the rose section and he was SO helpful and made us feel very welcome from the time we picked out our plants and pots up to and even during our exit after paying.

I think his name was Brian or Fred or something of the sort and he helped us prune the bare root plants, looked into buying some of their used flower pots, brought me my soil after we purchased and tied the bags in the parking lot to keep the roses moist for both me and my friend. He was so very very nice and helpful - dare I say PROACTIVE in trying to assist us without it being creepy?! Ok, enough about him. The rest of the shop was A-OK. The selection isn't as great but I was able to get what I needed and spent WAY too much money on plants.

Lastly, it's a neighborhood nursery and that scores extra points in my book for staying around and being just a joy to anyone who stops by.

TLDR: Ok indoor plant selection, needs more in their plant collection; Indoor plant conditions could be a lot better; Large outdoor plant selection; Outdoor plant information/help provided; Expensive

I was in Palo Alto with my mom and since we were in the area, I thought I'd take the chance to check out the place since it was the only one on Yelp that was still local and open at the time. I was excited to hopefully add a plant to my collection and seeing good reviews on Yelp. However, upon browsing their indoor plant selection, was quite disappointed. I didn't expect to visit often due to distance, but now definetly will not make the effort towards making a trip.

The store is next to a 7-11 and located down the block from another plant nursery (M&M Nursery). The store inside was relatively on the smaller side whereas the garden was quite spacious. Overall, it looked like a cute nursery.

Due to limited time, I focused most of my attention when browsing on the indoor plants. Their indoor plants were a somewhat decent collection. I still consider it a small variety of plants and I was expecting more selection. Some of the pots would list names but no prices. When I would ask an employee, they seemed annoyed with me. No one really offered me any help or asked if I had questions.

The plants seemed overpriced compared to what I have seen at other plant nurseries. If you're on a budget and/or just starting out, that is very intimidating. Most of the plants they had were larger, and therefore more expensive. The lowest prices I could find was $10 for small snake plants and pothos plants. They carried different varieties of pothos, but all their leaves looked sad and damaged. Their more matured pothos had healthy leaves and were $25 which isn't too bad. Not expensive, but not cheap. Their money trees were selling for $20. To continue, I found fiddle leaf figs ranging from $80-$200, yet their leaves were brown on the edges. Prices may not be extremely over the top, but definitely could be less than what they are priced.

I quickly browsed the outdoor plants and I am not as familiar with outdoor breeds. The area was quite spacious and there was a lot to browse. What I did enjoy is that the plants were organized and the plants would have some form of identification. For instance, the succulents had sticks for each type and some care details. The other plants would have a page with the common name, the scientific name, some details to learn about the plant (origin, etc.), how they grow and how to care, and recommendations. This was useful!

Since I was rushing through, I acknowledge that my review might be harsher since I didn't get to spend the time completely looking through all the plants. Regardless, the experience I did have felt mediocre. I think there is potential and they have much to improve on. Their outdoor plants are much stronger in quality, collection, and help.