Colonial Farm Nursery

We love Colonial Nursery! Very helpful and knowledgeable staff, with quick service. A wide variety of plants on offer, including mulch, earth and paving stones. Fast home delivery!

I had such high hopes. After all, Lou Scally from WHAG Hagerstown is on television singing their praises. I went there for the first time three years ago. I was new to the area and they were close by. I liked that they had a large selection, even if it was difficult to understand their set up. I wasn’t sure what flowers I’d find in the greenhouse. Which ones were perennial? Annual? Which ones needed light and which ones needed shade? I was a newbie and this place is NOT newbie friendly. Trying to find someone to help you is next to impossible. No one ever approaches you, the staff members you do manage to track down couldn’t be more clear that they don’t want to be bothered, etc. That doesn’t work for me. I’ve been back three or four more times, mostly because I didn’t know of anywhere else yet, and it was the same experience each time.
This year, my husband and I decided to go there because we just reworked a large landscaped/​entertainment area in our backyard and we needed to purchase quite a few permanent shrubs and plants. It was going to be an expensive trip and I just couldn’t get Lou Scally out of my head. We were there for almost a half hour and I couldn’t get anyone to help me. The one employee we came across was helping someone else and even though I signaled to her that we needed assistance, when she was done speaking to her customers, she disappeared. There’s even a little mailbox that is marked that useful identifications and names of plants were located inside but nope! Empty.
We left. We won’t be back. I suggest that unless you know exactly what you are looking for, don’t bother going there. I ended up finding a really nice nursery in another town nearby and they blew Colonial away.