The Plant Gallery

The plant gallery is by far my favorite nursery/​florist in town. After shopping several nurseries in town for Sky Pencils, we found that the selection & quality at TPG was significantly better than other nurseries in New Orleans & Metairie. I would say that TPG is «high-​end» compared to some other places, however the price difference is pretty marginal compared to even Lowes or Home Depot.
In addition to a huge selection of plants, TPG sells beautiful florals, outdoor furniture and lighting, home décor, and fabulous candles. You can see TPG’s work around town at places such as the Ritz, where TPG handles all of their landscaping and decorates their holiday trees.
Due to our busy holiday schedule this year, we needed to purchase our tree very early. TPG already has 300 gorgeous Christmas trees in their inventory. They provide delivery, lighting, decorating, and flocking services for their trees as well.
I also like that TPG has a loyalty program where you can accumulate points based on dollars spent. I highly recommend TPG!

I scheduled an appointment for my floral arrangements today. I came in and was very happy with the customer service from everyone. I spoke to Lesmes about all the ideas for my wedding. He was very detailed and really helped me on ways to save money. Waiting for a cost that should be emailed to me within a week. Overall, I’d recommend you take a look at this place. I’ll update this after I get pricing and etc. so far so good.

Shane understood exactly the look and the colors we were going for at our wedding. The arrangements looked spectacular and were reasonably priced. His team was in and out– very dependable, professional, and organized. I highly recommend them!

This place does have a beautiful selection of gardening supplies, but their sales assistance is certainly lacking. For starters, we went in to purchase a fountain. We went several days beforehand and knew exactly what we wanted. We walked into the main area where purchases are made and there were a total of 3 employees in there NOT assisting anyone. We told them what we wanted, and we were told that we had to go back outside to «wait for the fountain person to assist us.» Well, we stood there waiting for the special person to help us and no one came our way. We finally tracked the person down and were told that she was with someone else and would help us shortly. We watched as the couple she was helping walked her around for what seemed like an eternity choosing an item here and there to add to their purchase. Finally, we tracked her down as she was on her way to help another waiting person and asked if we could just buy the fountain already! We didn’t need info, didn’t need assistance, just wanted to give this place over 400 bucks. So, she scribbled a number on a piece of paper which was the «magic» ticket we needed that allowed us the privelege of giving them our money! Took maybe 2 minutes! Give me a break Plant Gallery managers and owners and get a business clue– when you have someone ready to drop money without a whole lot of service required from your staff, perhaps you could make that an easy task! Make the cute people inside actually come out for 2 min and write a simple number on a piece of paper and take the money instead of assigning one person the tedious task of helping everyone on the lot!!! Took a total of 40 min for something that should have taken 5 max!!!

Shane and The Plant Gallery did the flowers for my wedding ceremony and reception at Broussard’s this past weekend. It was during Mardi Gras and we had a peacock theme. The wedding was held at Broussard’s restaurant in their courtyard which is already a beautiful space in and of itself. But what Shane did to the courtyard was simply like a fairytale. The conditions and constraints he had to work in due to the Mardi Gras festival and all the road closures and whatnots did not make this an easy event for him. He rolled with it all flawlessly.
In our initial consult many months ago back in April, we outlined a vision. We asked for blues and greens, whimsy and romance but in a way that did not detract from an already beautiful outdoor setting. What he gave us was blues and greens, feathers and bling tastefully placed everywhere with lots and lots of candles and romantic touches. He nailed our vision and delivered in spades.
I will say that we had a lot of unique touches and requests to include with our wedding and shipped several boxes of things down for Shane to place and include in our overall design. He nailed them perfectly and when I walked in and saw everything from our time capsule to our crazy hand made arts and crafts guest book table all so perfectly displayed I breathed a sigh of relief. It’s a little nerve wracking to have a destination wedding (we are from the West Coast) and wonder will the end product really reflect my vision… It did!
And then I will say about the lighting… About two weeks before my photographer realized there wouldn’t be enough lighting to provide for good photos. I contacted Shane in a panic and he handled the last minute freak out with skill and calmness. I know this may make me seem either neurotic or a bridezilla, which I’m neither… But I digress… He contracted for lights, coordinated with my photographer and brought it in on budget. Thank heavens for contingency budgets.
Job well done Plant Gallery and thank you!

Next to Perrinos, absolute best for plants and flowers. Customers shop with these carts and receive tickets for checkout. The folliage and flowers here are healthier and larger than at home depot or lowes. The horticulturist actually takes their time watering each plant. The price may be a little higher but you get more bang for your buck. Green thumbs UP!

Markup MUCH higher than other nearby retailers and senior management is smug about it. Keep driving past their Airline Hwy location; not worth dealing with the attitude when there are so many other great options for plants and accessories in the NOLA area.

Our wedding day was beautiful and fun because all of the great company we had but I was really disappointed with the floral designs. I had provided bins labeled with what went on each table complete with an inventory and reference pictures. I think that’s probably more than most brides would do yet the finished product couldn’t have been further from what I requested.
My best friend and I spent weeks finding and purchasing vintage trays from the 20’s and 30’s for my favor table. We had tiny bottles of St. Germain (which had to be imported from various states because they no longer make it in small bottles) that were to be placed on each tray with jewelry dripping off the trays. It was to be very Great Gatsby and shiny. I contracted The Plant Gallery to set the trays at various heights, bunch extra table cloths around, arrange the bottles and jewelry, and place loose white roses and mercury glass candles all around so it was really sparkly. Much to my surprise, none of that was done.
They were supposed to create a welcome table that had a basket of customized tambourines for my Second Line parade, gold harmonicas in cigar boxes, customized handkerchiefs, a guest book and a tall ostrich plume arrangement. None of that was done.
The tambourines and hankies were on my favor table across the way, there was no huge arrangement on the welcome table. I had provided almost everything for these tables complete with pictures and a stop by the vendor to let them see/​have it in advance yet it was just tossed on the tables like it was a garage sale.
To make things even better, I had provided pictures of the exact boutineers that I wanted, with a single white (for groom) and brown striped (for groomsmen) feather in each. My groom ended up with something that looked closed to a tattered muppet — not a single feather, but some puff that looked like it may have been off of a feather boa. My ringer bearer had no boutineer at all even though it was in my estimate and I paid for it.
We had a unity candle at the wedding. My groom and I are both 6 feet tall and our unity candle was so much taller than us that even while standing on tip toes and reaching above our heads we were never really sure if we got it lit. How was the height of the thing never taken into consideration? Surely this isn’t the first unity candle that The Plant Gallery has ever done.
We were married in a courtyard and asked for a runner down the aisle just for the ceremony. I checked with The Plant Gallery a couple of times to verify that they had gone to the venue, measured for the appropriate amount of runner, and determined how to secure it. I was told that they had and was billed for it. When I went to the venue two days out I was told that they never met with anybody from The Plant Gallery. Hmmmmm. Then my groom tells me that while he was at the venue the hour right before the wedding, Eva, the Floral Manager, comes up to him and tells him that they «have a crisis» with the runner. Really? I’m sure that’s what he wants to be thinking about right before he gets married. Apparently they haven’t thought about how to secure it and never considered laying plastic or anything over it before I walk down so they’re now concerned that guests are going to make it really dirty before I get to it. It would have been awesome if they took any of this into consideration in the days prior to the wedding. As it turns out, they held it down with some randomly scattered candles and statues that I had provided for my tables. There wasn’t enough room to walk down the runner so half of the wedding party stepped on the candles and crushed them on their walk down the aisle. My dad and I even knocked out a few!
I paid to have my table centerpieces relocated to my brunch at The Omni the following day and they never made it.
I contacted The Plant Gallery, both Eva (the Floral Manager) and Richard (the Operations Manager) the week after the wedding and asked for a refund on the items that were not delivered. The things that were just poorly designed — the runner, the unity candle, etc — I didn’t even mention. I fully expected to get an email back with some semblance of understanding as to why these missing items should be refunded but instead I got a page-​long email back that detailed things they did not charge me for, why the venue and I were responsible for their mistakes, and how we got more than our money’s worth.
Wow. I know that I personally spent hours, weeks, and months working on my favor table, welcome table and more and in the blink of an eye The Plant Gallery undid all of my hard work without feeling any responsibility in doing so.
I would highly recommend going with another vendor for your once-​in-​a-​lifetime event.

The employees were clueless as to what would fill our needs, and when we did find something we wanted, they could not figure out the final cost of delivery, etc. They said that only one person could give us the total cost and he wasn’t there. Salesperson told us not to buy decorative pots there because they were way too high in their prices…, terrible experience and will never go back!!!

This place is way cool!
Good selection and very large. They have all kinds of bigger things that you would use for major landscaping projects, but they also have some interesting stuff like air plants and succulents. The people who work here are very nice and I would recommend it to anyone.

This place is way cool. Nice people, beautiful plants. Their full service facility sells, rents and maintains plants. We went one day and ended up buying a bunch of things on clearance. They answered all of our questions about maintenance and help us load them up. We enjoyed walking through the different categories of plants that they offer and learning from the staff. They offer a discount program if you are a return customer.

I took my niece and nephew to The Plant Gallery for their annual Easter egg hunt. They had real bunnies, a photographer and someone dressed up as the Easter Bunny. There were refreshments, PLENTY of eggs for the kids to find and all safely set up so we did not have to worry about cars. The place was absolutely beautiful. The staff was helpful and friendly. I will definitely be going back. Kids were occupied, adults could shop — a win/​win situation.

I bought a Living Social deal here last fall and realized that it was about to expire at the end of this month. So off to the Plant Gallery I went.
I should mention that I had a plant moratorium imposed on me awhile back. I am a bipolar gardener. I get all inspired and do lots and then forget to water for weeks on end. This makes for many dead plants. Which depresses my significant other when he has to throw them all away.
Anyway, I tried to focus on smaller plants (less painful to look at once they’re dead) and herbs. I ended up with some lovely geraniums for the front porch and whole bunch of herbs for the kitchen garden (OK really it’s a bunch of pots, but much of my yard is concrete thanks to previous owners). The prices were competitive and the staff was very knowledgeable and friendly.

Purchased a large pot at a good price. When I started taking it to my car, they ran after me, said they sold it to me for the wrong price, and demanded 40% more money.
Has this happened to anyone else? I’m not going back, but a one-​time mistake is different than a repeated, calculated bait-​and-​switch.