Larchmont Nurseries and Greenhouses

Bought ½ cord of dry, seasoned firewood. Friendly, helpful service! Beautiful greenhouse with lots of unusual plants.

My wife and I shopped here years ago to get plants. I was able to get help picking plants for our garden from the knowledgeable and friendly staff, now not so much. Where did they go? For the high cost that they charge they need to offer some kind of personal service. We won’t be coming back.

I’ve been here several times and I guess it’s the small section of free plants that keeps bringing me back because it certainly isn’t the service! (I DO appreciate that they have this little free section — even today, with some snow still on the ground — there were 2 plants that were marked «FREE,» but I don’t partake of them every time.) Today I came in looking for a gift, something in bloom and/​or a nice pot that I could plant something into. The outside was not yet ready for spring. There were several cracked ceramic pots — as they do when things are left out all winter, and few plants. Inside, I saw several pots of forced amaryllis, some marked at $ 75, some at $ 30, many not priced at all. I went into the back area where their xmas décor was ½ off and it looked like a disaster zone! I couldn’t believe a retailer would present their goods, even on clearance, in such a shoddy way. I found a lovely pot (that was clearly reused as it had some soil in it) and saw an employee sitting behind a counter so I asked him how much it cost. His response, «I’m on lunch, lady.» Really? At the counter, the lady there couldn’t give me a price and had to call another lady who said it was $ 24.95 (for a used pot.) Parking lot is big, in the warmer months there was a sign saying they’ll recycle your larger plastic pots. Service nonexistent, though.

This place has a lot of pretty plants but the employees sure aren’t very helpful. I went there yesterday, and about two employees walked right by me, almost purposefully not making eye contact with me. I tracked down someone else to ask for help, and after determining that I wanted perennials, she just kind of took me to that section and was ready to walk off. I started to say that we have a lot of rabbits and I wanted something they might not eat like they’ve eaten other things I’ve planted, but she just shrugged at me. I had a lot of other questions I would have liked help with while selecting something — sun/​shade? water? will it spread a lot? how tall will it get? But since I had been abandoned out there by that time, I just had to read the little plastic tags that are in the plants and hope for the best. I hope I made good selections because the plants I got were not cheap, this place is pretty expensive. I would not go back. I wouldn’t have even made yesterday’s purchase, but it was like 90 degrees and I’m 9 months pregnant and I didn’t have the energy to go somewhere else.

Besides the huge selection of plants (coleus, hydrangeas, impassions, cacti, pines, banana trees, succulents, ivies, ground cover in general, palm trees, bonsai, etc) they also offer pavers-​installation, and outdoor cooking stoves/​grill construction/​installation. The place is right on the main road with plenty of parking space in the back of the shop. What are you waiting for, go visit!

The Larchmont Nurseries and Greenhouses is a great place to pick up Flowers and Plants to decorate your home or Apartment (in the case of my wife and I — that would be our Co-​Op). My wife has been itching to plant Strawberries since last year. When Spring arrived she started checking all the Nurseries and Greenhouses in the area but none of the Strawberry plants looked any good. If fact, they all looked wilted and dying, and we were not about to pay good money for drab looking plants.
My wife, I guess out of desperation, remembered the Larchmont Nurseries and Greenhouses from the time she sold BMW’s and we decided to look them up. Using my Unilocal app on my Android phone (yes, it does come in handy!) we got the address and phone number. Once we confirmed that they had Strawberry plants for sale we drove straight there.
Not only did they have Strawberry plants but all their plants looked healthy! They had them for $ 4.99 per cell and a package of eight would have cost us $ 40. But they were having a ½ price sale! So we were able to by the whole package for $ 19.82! A little less than half price! We are going back soon to pick up some flowers to finish off my wife’s planting fetish but I’m sure not only will we be having strawberries all summer but we’ll have a nice colorful place to sit down and relax once all the flowers and plants we’ll be planting bloom!
If your ‘Green Thumb’ is itching then the Larchmont Nurseries and Greenhouse is the place to scratch it.