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Best local garden supply? — Brooklynian

Best local garden supply?

new2hood
new2hood
edited November -1 in Park Slope
I need to plant a bunch of hydrangeas in our newly refurbished garden here in PS...my thumb is not so green. Where's the best place to go where someone can help me figure out what/how many I need, give me advice, hold my hand, etc. A good price would be very handy too.

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  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    We LOVE Shannon Florist-great plants and they are very helpful. We don;t have a green thumb either and they were very good at helping us pick out plants that would do good outdoors in front of our building.

    http://www.shannonflorist.com/
  • redmenace
    redmenace

    Subject: Re: Best local garden supply?

    new2hood wrote: I need to plant a bunch of hydrangeas in our newly refurbished garden here in PS...my thumb is not so green. Where's the best place to go where someone can help me figure out what/how many I need, give me advice, hold my hand, etc. A good price would be very handy too.
    Very partial to Chelsea Garden Center over by Fairway.
  • arches
    arches

    Subject: Re: Best local garden supply?

    redmenace wrote: [quote=new2hood]I need to plant a bunch of hydrangeas in our newly refurbished garden here in PS...my thumb is not so green. Where's the best place to go where someone can help me figure out what/how many I need, give me advice, hold my hand, etc. A good price would be very handy too.
    Very partial to Chelsea Garden Center over by Fairway.

    check out Liberty Sunset Garden Center too, if you are in the Fairway area. interesting stuff.
  • veets
    veets
    The very best place is on Caton Ave, two blocks or so down from Coney Island Ave... geez I wish I remembered the name of the place. No matter..

    Take a left off of Coney down number streets on Caton and you will hit it. The owner of this place who is just about always there knows more about the specifics of what will grow in a "Brooklyn Garden" than any other person I have met in the local nurseries and I have shopped
    them all for years, from Shannon on down to Lowes.
  • tajmb
    tajmb
    I vote for Shannon's for service, quality of plants, and definitely price.

    However, if you can hold off until mid-September or so you'll have more luck. It's brutally hot out there right now. This is not the time when most plants want to be putting out a new root system. Even plants that thrive in late summer do so on roots established well beforehand.
  • new2hood
    new2hood
    Great--thanks everybody! and tajmb, thanks for the timing hint--i need all the help I can get!
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