Ogawa-Mune Nursery

Nice selection, great staff, fair prices!
Firstly, I want to thank everyone for your great service throughout the years. I’ve been selecting plants at Ogawa-​Mune Nursery for landscapes; I believe for over 30 years! ‘Special’ thanks to the front desk and ordering staff Dave, Derek, Lance and Craig for your utmost professionalism and for going that extra mile for me.
Ogawa-​Mune Nursery, has, an always will be my first to go nursery.

One has to go through the contractor to buy things from them. They have a broad selection and good prices. I bought two Japanese maples from them and they are doing good.

It was a very pleasant experience purchasing the plants for our Front yard project here. This place is wholesale and my landscaper sent me here to pick out plants. I had done my research and knew what I was looking for. The staff was helpful in answering any questions I had and the price was good.

First of all, my review doesn’t factor in the price I paid. It’s a wholesaler so I’m assuming the price should be good. I bought about 30 three to five gallons partial shade shrubs, price ranging from $ 13 to $ 29, average about $ 20 each. Frankly, if my gardener didn’t insist me buying here, I would just go to nearby Home Depot to save some driving time (yes I hate driving). Hence my review is purely based on the service I received.
(Also I wrote this review in June, right after my shrub-​shopping there. The memory was fresh back then.)
I went there, went straight to the office for information. When I was at the office, I didn’t feel welcome by the guy who greeted me.
Maybe I was a bit too sensitive, or maybe I don’t speak perfect English, or maybe because my gardener didn’t come with me in the beginning, so that guy had question marks all over his face and he let me feel that I did something wrong to dare to come.
I understand that he is a sincere guy, he had to verify my gardener’s account. Yes, I totally understand, so I gave him my gardener’s phone number and let he looked up his computer system. However, I was offended by his action afterward.
He found my gardener’s account in the computer, stared at the monitor for awhile and then he asked his coworker (that guy was nearby and who apparently speak Spanish like my gardener does) if that account holder is for real. What? Are you kidding me? That information is stored in «your» computer system, yet he behaved like I did some magic and that account suddenly appeared. He then called my gardener but couldn’t reach him in person.
Then he demanded that before I came, my gardener should call in advance. But that was not the stories I heard from my gardener. According to my gardener, his other clients had no problems going there alone before. Not once my gardener called in advance before.
I was very uncomfortable and prepared to leave at that moment, but he suddenly offered me to look around the plants first. Finally he did something nice to me. Otherwise I would just leave and you would all see an unhappy one star review here. ;)
My gardener came to join me not long after, while I was looking around the plants. The other crews of the nursery who helped me out at the yard are all very nice, genuinely, 100%.
However, when I was paying the plants, that guy came to the casher who was helping me and asked if my account was verified. OMG! Could you just leave me alone?! Please! Couldn’t you see my gardener was right next to me? And I definitely not presented myself as a sneaky type person at all.
Frankly I will be very hesitant to go in there next time due to this uncomfortable and unwelcoming experience. :(

This place ROCKS!!! I have been using these guys for years and have always been completely satisfied. All of the staff there is very knowledgeable and no matter who I talk to Dave, Lance, Derek or Craig they always treat me right!!! The owner Ken started something with this team and it has blossomed into a Beautiful Thing. Also I cant leave out all the other staff… being in business there is always a time when dealing with their accounting dept., is Super Professional. Then when it comes to going out and pulling and loading all the plants I have never had a bad experience. The guys in the yard are very helpful with any questions or special requests. Ogawa Mune is the example of how all other nursery’s should run their business. I’m a customer for life.

Called this morning to find out about a tree type and name after I pulled a tag from a tree on a job site that had their nursery name on it as I was driving by few months ago. I wanted info for the kind tree which I had no name for, as I am doing some research to work on my back yard. The guy answered the phone was very nice tried to help me even though I didn’t have much info to give him, he kept his cool and profifisionalizem. I need about 30? of these trees, I will definatly buy it from Ogawa Mune Nursery. I probably have to find a land scape Contracter to buy it on my behalf.

I love family run businesses like this.
I was a gardener for years, but not currently. I didn’t realize this was a wholesale place, but I wandered in anyway. They have a cool selection of plants — definitely ten steps better than the big box places nearby — natives and conifers etc etc. They don’t really have a lot of bedding/​annual plants (not really my bag, anyway), but if you need immediate specimens of perennials and shrubs in 5 gallon pots — say for dolling up a place to sell — they have a good selection.
I didn’t notice until later that there wasn’t any real signage or extra «stuff» for public consumption, and that all the vehicles in the lot were landscapers’ trucks. Maybe because I had my big straw hat on, and my felco’s and a hori hori, nobody paid us any mind — other than to say good morning. I guess I didn’t need any help about plant advice — not sure how they would handle a random member of the public with lots of beginner questions… I would think they would accommodate anyone who has done their homework, and has a plant list together. A review below recommends the Sunset garden book; I would add the EBMUD guide to drought tolerant plants — a very helpful, and more focused guide to plants for the Bay Area. Also very easy to use.
Anyway, long story short, a terrific place. Interesting selection of plants, great prices, and accommodating people.

They are very professional and knowledgeable about all the plants they have on site. I would recommend them to any of my friends and family. I always walk out with what I came for.

Excellent! It isn’t open to the public, but if you can get in, it is worth it. We recently landscaped our backyard, and they provided excellent service with top quality plants. They have a huge selection to choose from, which isn’t always a good thing for my wife and I, but Derek and Lance were able to help us sort through it all.
Our fruit trees were blooming within weeks of being planted! Definitely recommend!

Love this wholesale nursery, very friendly and knowledgeable staff. Good selection of plant materials.

I volunteer with Scenic Streets which landscapes roadsides and highways in Oakland. We buy lots of drought tolerant shrubs and were referred to Ogawa-​Mune Nursery by one of our supporters. What a lucky find! Good selection, friendly service and prices that were a bit better than our previous wholesaler Devil Mountain Nursery in Danville. Most of these big wholesale nurseries are a bit of a drive to reach, but if you need to buy several shrubs you can save a bundle. Most native shrubs come in 1 gal containers and cost about half of what you would pay at retail.
Ogawa-​Mune isn’t a store, so it’s wise to email a list of what you want before you arrive and they will pull it from their huge lot for you. Providing the Latin species names is wisest to be sure you get exactly the variety you seek since many plant species have dozens of varieties that share similar sounding names. Pick up a used copy of Sunset’s famous Western Garden book on eBay for a few bucks if you need a good guide.

A very very nice place to be. They have a huge selection of plants. The staffs there are really nice and helpful. It’s a wholesale place, not open to public.

Dave, Lance and Craig give excellent service. I work for a landscape contractor and I do all the plant research. We usually send the planting list out to 2 or 3 nurseries to bid and get the best price. Not lately. We have only sent it to Ogawa the last 3 times and the results couldn’t have been better. The prices are usually better than the competitors and the plant quality has never let us down. They have made a loyal customer and I will recommend them to my friends. One of these days I have got to get out there in person. :)

A HEAVEN FOR PLANTS.
If plants go to heaven, this is what it would look I think. I wish I could be one of their plants. Let me tell you why.
When you get out of your car make sure you turn around, all the way around! High above the hills with the bay and towns below, I thought I’d arrived at someone’s private estate. 360 degrees of water and bay views, this is plant paradise and the trees know it. They burst color and the leaves are healthy and green. And the price, the price was 40% less than the San Jose wholesale nurseries for the same plants. The service deserves 6 stars, they absolutely went out of their way with unique cart service where they drive you around and find things for you. Where else do they do that?
I had a professionally designed front yard of plants and this place had EVERYTHING on the list. None of the places in SJ or Peninsula came close to being a one stop shop for me.

The guy who helped me plan my garden suggested this place saying it was worth the drive. Well, it was. The place is large, there is a good variety of plants, the service is friendly and the price is right. They helped me load an amazing amount of plants into my midsized SUV. If you are looking to get a truck load of plants, take a drive to Ogawa, you won’t be disappointed.