Pablo’s Garden

Pablo is a total and complete jerk and just doesn’t understand customer service. I hope your sister enjoys her fire wood DB jerk.

Nice selection of items but NO customer service friendly atmosphere. We came 5 days before Christmas in order to buy a tree and found out that all the trees were $ 60-​$ 70 depending on size. I also spotted a couple of Buddha statues I was interested in and 2ft one was a whooping $ 1000.00 — priced by Pablo himself. He also said that if I don’t like the price, he does not need to sell one and he would rather keep it for himself. He wasn’t joking about it what so ever. He also had beautiful collection of stepping stones, which he wasn’t interested in selling either. He refused to explain what material they were made out of. Very poor and abrupt service. We ended up going to Kensington and paid $ 30 for beautiful tree.

I haven’t been there in the spring or summer, but have gone there for the last couple of years for a Christmas tree. Went again this year hoping to have the same luck. While I did go a week or so later than in past years, it was still relatively early in December. Even still, there was not much in stock. I ended up getting a tree there anyway, because I wanted to support my local business community. Big mistake — ended up paying just shy of $ 70 for a tree that lasted about 4 days.
The staff has always been courteous, and Pablo himself is very friendly — but $ 70 for a tree that sheds almost immediately, won’t fluff out properly, constantly falls over, and is dead within a few days is a huge waste of money. I won’t be going back at Christmas time next year.

What an interesting garden center! Music, sculptures, and beautiful mums, which I was looking for! Good prices and selection. Only complaint was that no employee was around when I got there, and as I was consider3 leaving, someone came around– he’d been working putt in front. Ended well, he helped me take the plants our to my car. I’ll go back!

Technically the address is on Rockville pike but he is inside the Montrose Crossing shopping center next to Bobs Furniture and behind Old Navy. The most direct entrance is on Montrose /​Randolph @ Chapman Ave.
I told Pablo what I needed and he helped me find exactly what i needed.

In an area where I’ve found my garden plants predominantly at the big box stores, it’s nice to have a local nursery to fund a good selection of well priced healthy plants. Today I saw metal statuary for Halloween. Everyone is getting ready for that most festive autumn and fall season!

It’s funny, my family owns a florist, and yet, it’s my husband that is obsessed by plants. Or perhaps it’s not that funny. Once you’ve spent the week leading up to Valentine’s Day stripping thorns off of 200,000 roses, you too will develop an active dislike of plants (and V-​day!).
But like my husband’s gastro-​awakening, it’s almost as if I also introduced him to the world of plants. When I took him to New Orleans, he glutted himself on po-​boys, boiled crawfish, and the amazing aroma of magnolias in bloom. When we went to Thailand, he was fascinated by the street vendors, fresh coconut milk, and the aluring fragerence of jasmine everwhere we went. As he so eloquently put it: «some people travel with their eyes. Others travel with their stomachs. I find myself traveling by my nose». And indeed he does.
And now that we own a house with a huge yard, I find myself dragged to every nursery and garden center that we come across. And this nursery is no different.
Nestled in the back lot of the Rockville Pike strip mall, at the intersection of Rockville Pike and Old Georgetown Rd comes together, is this little nursery. Charmingly garish murals decorate the store, and the rest of the lot are pots upon pots of plants and trees in various states of bloom and decline.
We came on a hot Saturday afternoon, and after walking around, we spied about three plants (two bushes and a small flowering plant) that we were interested in purchasing… except we couldn’t find a sales person for love or money. We were not the only ones — there were other customers walking around, wanting to know if XYZ would do well in the shade or the sun… but no one could locate a sales person to help.
Not all the plants looked «fresh». Some were clearly past prime bloom, which is fine, as there was a 25% discount on those plants. However, without the blossom or a legible tag, we couldn’t tell what color flower the plant was. Not to mention — none of the plants were clearly marked, so we couldn’t figure out what kind of plant it was half the time… nor what the price was.
So, although there was a nice selection, we ended up leaving without buying a single thing. Not for the lack of trying… but it seemed as if they didn’t really care to do business, as no one was working the registers. Odd.