Evergreen Nursery

I had a somewhat unhappy experience last year and once Steven Collins had read my review, he kindly contacted me. Even though he was not at fault, he was very apologetic and generous. This year he offered evergreen money to offset the cost of our flocked noble this season. We accepted his offer and took advantage of it today. As always, they had fresh healthy trees and the men that assisted me we’re all so nice! I bought a Douglas fur from Walmart a week ago and was told by the garden center that they’re «not allowed» to tie trees on the roof of cars so they stuffed a 6 – 7 Douglas in my car so I assumed evergreen would do the same since I didn’t have my truck with me but they put my tree in plastic and tied it to my roof! That was really exciting! Thank you Evergreen staff and especially Steven!

We have purchased lots of plants at the Oceanside Evergreen nursery and like the selection. The main problem with this nursery is the way one is treated at checkout. The ladies are rude, pushy, and not helpful at all. Especially the young one with reddish hair and freckles (sorry, didn’t get a name, was too busy getting irritated with the clerk). The workers in the plants areas are friendly and helpful.

I spoke with the onsite mgr for ten minutes at the Oceanside location about the price given over the phone and what I was going to be charged at the nursery. As you say you work with your customers, the mgr dug in her heals and would not hear me and did not help me. I used to buy from evergreen nursery, but now I buy from Moon Valley Nurseries (better selection and much better prices). Buyer beware when dealing with evergreen nursery!

Absolutely huge nursery. We purchased 12 Flaxleaf Paper Bark shrubs/​trees for a really great price ($ 14/​each). The place has everything you could need. Some of the prices on some plants seemed kind of high. It was hard to find any help to ask a question. Over the phone, they said they offered military discount but upon arrival and purchase said they did not, so that was a little weird. Checkout is a little strange and took forever. It is sort of a «drive through» with your items already in your vehicle. The guy at the cashier’s office had no backbone and couldn’t handle some really rude woman that was paying so that was very weird and uncomfortable.

This place offers a variety of trees, shrubs some succulents and ground coverings. Also offers open bulk of rock, mulch, bark, soil.
They plants seemed to be organized well, but I feel it could be marked better. For example, mark on the containers the water wise plants or even mark the areas. We were informed by two different employees where the water wise plants were located. When we looked in the ‘water wise’ area, some of the containers did not read as water wise. I don’t know if the plants were picked over but a lot did not seem to be in good condition. Another day we came in we were admiring a plant and checked the container to see the type and questioned it because we know for sure it was not a Bird of Paradise. When we asked the employee they said they recycle their pots. I’m all for that, at least mark out or remove the old sticker.
We placed a bulk order and scheduled for a delivery to our residence. We were quite impressed with the knowledge and helpful youngsters that assisted us. They also suggested switching things out for a better price and also information on the plants we ordered. Great customer service for sure. I also want to mention that everyone on the ground were always helpful and checking on you if you needed help.
Another plus beside the great customer service is that if you bring back the containers from your purchase, they will apply it for store credit! That is fantastic! I know we will be back, and when I do it will be when new shipments have arrived, and I won’t be left with the picked over ones.

We have purchased all our plants here recently, for a front yard makeover. Have bought plants at Home Depot in the past, the selection is better at Evergreen, and the plant quality seems to be better as well. Everything transplanted successfully.
5 Gallon plants are about $ 18 each, there’s a good selection of garden plants as well as decorative plants. I have not needed any assistance, so I can’t comment on the helpfulness of the staff. But it’s true that they are not really around a lot, and the cashiers are teenage girls, so I don’t know how expert their advice is. But as I said, it’s been a good experience so far! Easy to get in and out of there, successful transplanting.

We went here to buy 2 truck loads of plants and trees to landscape with. We will not be back, the plants are struggling to survive. Since then we have had to go to other nurserys to buy healthy plants that are flourishing. The plants we bought here on our property look sick and weak, while the plants we bought at other nurseries are growing rapidly and happily. We wasted close to $ 1000 here on sick sad plants that may have to be replaced. Definately, not coming back. It looks like they spray with chemicals, I saw a guy with a pack on his back spraying the plants with something that definately was not water. Also, when we asked employees on the grounds questions they had trouble answering them. They did not seem knowledgeable about the product they sell.

Great selection. And very easy to load your plants… You simply drive around with your car and if you see something you like, you pull over and load in into your vehicle!
I do wish they had staff walking around occasionally, because if you have a question to have to go all the way to the front of the nursery.

One of the best nurseries in Oceanside, always friendly and the selection varies from season to season!

Great selection of plant and trees. What’s great is the plants are grown on site so they are acclimated to the local weather, and they are cheaper than the other nurseries and the box stores. There’s no plant guarantee but you get twice as much for the money as other places and the plants survive because they are grown here.

Liz B
Went there yesterday to get some help with my citrus trees. Couldn’t find anyone until I went to cashiers booth. The employee there seemed unpleasant and gave conflicting advice. First I was over watering and then I wasn’t watering enough. Also, would not help with advice regarding how much food I should give trees. Kept telling me to read the box. Could get this kind of help at Lowes or Home Depot. Going there from now on since one of them is closer to home. Tried to give my business to local merchant. Didn’t go so well. This was third visit here. Done!!!

Great fun. Maria was helpful and I will be back.

We love Evergreen Nursery! An insane variety, great prices, the staff is extremely knowledgable and helpful… and the place is HUGE! WE love driving up the hill and seeing what’s new.

i love evergreen nursery! Anthony is awesome and always helpful. i wasn’t sure where to start when it came to redoing my backyard and he took the time to help me find what i was looking for. i recommend this place to all my friends and tell them to ask for Anthony!

Although it is big and has a bit of a «corporate» feel, I still like this nursery. It has a good selection of plants, especially trees, in a wide open, easy to navigate setting.
I like that you can load up your car and drive through the checkout.
They have a sign that says that once you buy the plants, it’s up to you to keep them alive and that they can’t guarantee that you’ll succeed. I like that. I figure that if a store guarantees that you’ll be able to keep their plants healthy, they must be raising their prices to cover the cost of taking back plants that people overwatered.
I think that it is great that if I have a question that someone can’t answer, they admit that they don’t know and find someone who does.

Flowers! Trees! Herbs! Plants! Yup this place has got it! The prices are really decent as well! Don’t forget to grab your panting pots they will go along way and add to your indoor/​outdoor décor! I purchased two plants and two pots :) Total came out to $ 60 bucks not too shabby! I like the idea of pulling up to grab and go but they also have people there to assist. They are very informative and I love the indoor/​outdoor plant selection.

This place is HUGE! The pricing is just a bit cheaper than Lowes & Home Depot until we factor in our military discount that Evergreen does not offer. Too bad. But they have a great selection since they’re so huge! The guy we talked to was very nice and we’ll be back to look at the magnolia trees that we’ve been looking for!

Welcome… to the jungle.
OK Kids, keep your hands in the car, don’t put your fingers out the window, monkeys love fingers.
This place was one clay laden dirt road away from my house when the 56 was a glimmer in someones eye who was incapable of estimating development mass vs traffic ratio’s…oops, that is another review, I digress.
When the progeny units were small and bored, it was always fun to take a trip to Evergreen. Driving down the dirt road, slipping and sliding on the clay or bouncing off the dried up ruts of the road with mind numbing delight and then our adventure destination awaits.
In that era you could drive through this huge nursery with the kids, through the foliage of all kinds and they would pretend to be in the jungle with wild animals and dinosaurs while the landscaping projects danced like sugar plum fairies in the heads of the boring old adults.
My favorite trip culminated in the adventure where I told my kids I had just spend 30 dollars on worm poop (castings). They looked at me like I was certifiable and as they have now reached the teenager years I am sure thats just one more data point to add to the inevitable conclusion that «mom was always insane».
This is a great nursery with a really amazing selections of plants and a good way to break up some toddler time in between that 6 am wakeup and nap time.

This place is horrible. With the exception of just one out of the many people I spoke with, they are nasty, nasty, nasty and completely unwilling to help in any way.
I went through 3 people looking for help for an issue that I wouldn’t have had, had I not taken «their» suggestion for which product to get, and when i finally asked for a supervisor or manager, she was the worst of all. She was defensive, insisted on blaming everybody else and was interested in nothing but arguing. I must have calmly said, «may I please just finish my sentence?» about 5 times because she didn’t even listen to what I was asking for. She just kept cutting me off and finally hung up on me.
I really don’t mind if people can’t help me, AS LONG AS THEY MAKE THE EFFORT. There was no «Let me think if there is someplace else I can refer you to where you can get what you need,» it was just pre-​determined that nothing was her fault and she wasn’t going to step a toe out of her way to do anything to help me. I was legitimately respectful talking to her, simply trying to ask her «I understand you can’t do anything, but can you give me any suggestions.»
Furthermore, the mulch we got was filthy. I spent more time picking out trash of ever kind — candy wrappers, plastic, yard ties, everything. Not only did we pay for clean mulch, but on the website it states that deliveries are $ 60.00, but they charged us $ 80.00 «because it was mulch.»
This place is one of the worst places I’ve ever dealt with. Run away, run very far away. They are not the only game in town.

I absolutely have to Unilocal this place. Evergreen is an amazing nursery with pretty much any standard (and not so standard) plant you can find to put into your garden. The place is pretty overwhelming and I know there are plants I ended up buying when I was looking for something else simply because I couldn’t be bothered to completely explore it.
Great, great prices on everything. Truly whole sale prices. The variety of plants and trees is amazing. The plants are healthy and you can buy ones that are nice and big (and less likely to die). And the service is friendly. The four stars are because I would have liked to have more choice of low water natives. They do have some, but the choice is very limited.