Sunnyside Nursery

Love this place. When you can’t find what you’re looking from –it’s here! Best choice of Bougainvilleas! Every color! Cool colored Vine/​tomato metal supports-​no one else has all the colors! Super friendly, helpful staff. Watch out when the bulbs come in you’ll get sucked into creating bag full of-«I forget what I just bought!» :D bad news is I hear they are closing?!? It’s so unique! I wish someone would buy this treasure and keep it going. Go now while you can!

They are selling everything and closing up shop, with the possibility of another nursery coming in with different management I guess.

One of the top nurseries in the area. Really great customer service!

This is a great nursery!!! There is a glitch on the Unilocal site. Sunnyside Nursery is open Saturday 8:30am-5:00pm and Sunday 9:00am-4:30pm.

Spent 20 mins walking around this place. Prices are ridiculous and no one ever asked me if he could assist. I try to support local businesses, but they need to compete. I cannot understand how this place is still in business. Don’t bother. Head to OSH like I did. Very helpful staff and great prices.

Staff who are well versed in what does well locally and who can help you quickly narrow down your choices, but its a smaller nursery so may not have what you are looking for (though for its size, it has a ton of variety). Recently bought a 1 gallon vine and was surprised to find it drier and more potbound than I would have expected — i think with the wide variety they don’t feet the high turnover of some of the factory nurseries (a la Home Depot), and this plant just seemed to have been sitting a bit long or was not moist enough. Prices are comparable with other local places — though I come for the advice and variety.

The selection is poor, the prices are rich. Avoid this place at all costs.

When navigating soil, weather, planting schedule as an amateur gardener, I really appreciate the personal touch that Sunnyside provides. Tom took the time to walk me through soil choices and other products, and is delivering all that I need. The prices are competitive, too, with bulk discounts. I’ve given up on Sloat, which keeps customers waiting on the phone and isn’t that much more helpful in person. Happy to support local businesses like Sunnyside.

Ok, I have been on the phone all day trying to find a Ficus Lyrata. NO ONE in the Bay Area has this plant. BEHOLD, lovely Larry answered the phone just as I was about to give up! He is going to find me one come hell or high water, THANK YOU LARRY! If you’re wondering what good, no brilliant customer service looks like (sounds like) it’s Larry, you win the prize for being friendly and going the extra mile. Thank you!

Sunnyside Nursery not only has the best selection of plants for your garden, but the most helpful, knowledgable, warm and friendly staff of perhaps any other Marin business! We love going there!

The best nursery in Marin by far! Everyone goes out of their way to get you that one particular plant you just have to have. They take your name and number and search far and low until they find it for you — or it just isn’t available anywhere on this earth:)
Yes, the parking can be a challenge but I really can’t fault a business for that. You can always find parking within decent walking distance and they deliver.

We love Sunnyside Nursery! Larry has always been extremely friendly and continually gone the extra mile for all of our gardening needs. Their staff has always helped us keep a great year-​round splash of color in our front planter boxes. We thank you greatly from everyone here at PRANDI Property Management!

This is my favorite nursery in Marin. They seem to have the best variety of plants, their plants always look healthy and thriving, and they carry a lot of uncommon and unusual stuff.
The staff has always been helpful and friendly and I’m always pleased with what I find and buy when I’m here.
However, there isn’t really parking for the place and I’ve driven past rather than stopping a couple of times because of it (thus taking off one star rating…). I have to be in the right mind-​set where I can take the time to deal with the parking issue if I’m going to come here. If I’m in a hurry or just feeling impatient I tend to just go to Sloat Mill Valley instead.
If they had a real parking lot I’d likely do most all of my plant shopping here.

The people in this nursery are friendly and go the extra mile to get you the best plants or materials for your garden.
If you can’t take your plants home, they will deliver.
I love this nursery!

Very helpful staff and a huge selection of plants, mostly trees/​vines/​shrubs it seems. We picked up a little Japanese maple (on sale due to hail damaged leaves, but they fall off every year anyway, so what do I care) and priced some other vines and plants. Their vines were much larger /​more established than at Sloat or other nearby nurseries, but they were so entangled with one another I’m not sure you could pick out just one without damaging it. We didn’t attempt it. Its not as slick and organized as West End nursery, but they did carry our bag-​o-​soil out to the car for us!

I know nothing about plants. And as long as we lived in the city, this was just fine. But now I have a yard. Space to plant things. And I don’t want them to die. And at Sunnyside they help me. Every weekend. For as long as I need. I bring a leaf in from a dying lemon tree, they tell me what to do. I tell them I have sun, but no water, they tell me what to plant.
They know San Anselmo. They know the weather. They know the soil. They know an incompetent but willing gardner. And they know how to help.
I love them.

My wife called around, looking for a certain type of citrus tree. She was pleased when Sunnyside said they had what we needed, in the size for which we were looking. A long drive down a notoriously bad road (Sir Francis Drake) brought us to Sunnyside.
Turns out they had *one* tree of our preferred type — the wrong size and clearly unwell. I was pretty upset. The salesperson (the one who had misled my wife) had a lame excuse and tried to redirect his «mistake» to her.
I understand imperfection. I don’t get not standing up and owning it. Not interested in ever using this nursery again.

I love Sunnyside! Everyone who works there is extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Most of the staff has been there FOREVER and can tell you which plants do well in pretty much any area of Marin. They are an excellent resource for horticulture problems, and if they do not know the answer, they will refer you to someone who does. If I can’t find what I am looking for they are always willing to special order. And of course, they have their amazing Growing Grounds sale in July and October.
If you are looking for quality plants and diversity (ie not Home Depot) this is the place to shop. it is worth the extra dollar!

If someone were to say to me, «What’s your favorite nursery in central Marin: Sunnyside, or West End?» I would have to say «Yes».
Sunnyside specializes in plants that will grow well in central Marin without a lot of bother. They also have the best selection of annuals, veggies, and herbs around.
Take strawberries. Most garden stores around here stock 1 – 2 varieties of everbearing, one of Junebearing, and maybe an ornamental or Alpine variety if you’re lucky. I went to Sunnyside last spring and just about fell over — they had a dozen or more different varieties of strawberry plants. I wound up filling my strawberry pots with a mixture of three varieties, and it was really hard to choose which three. That’s the kind of difficulty I like to have!
Unlike most nurseries nowadays, Sunnyside grows a lot of their own stock at their own grounds in western Fairfax. And that is the source of real temptation, because a few times a year, they run a sale out at those growing grounds. Imagine wandering around acres of well-​tended trees, shrubs, grapevines… all on sale, all waiting for you to load them up and take them home… the Sale of Doom. Try the lemonade the kids sell, too — the proceeds go to a good cause.

The old adage «Good things come to those who wait» was recently proved to be true by Tom and his staff at Sunnyside Nursery. We’ve owned our Golden Gate Heights home for 11 years and for the last five we’ve been transforming a quarter-​acre lot into a master-​planned garden. Never having done this before, I now know that planting is the icing on the cake when it comes to landscaping and here’s where Sunnyside made my day. It was no small task to navigate and order hundreds of plants by their Latin names and when Sunnyside delivered them exactly as ordered, on time and in pristine condition, it felt like a dream come true. Kudos to Tom and everyone at Sunnyside for their attention to detail and their friendly ways.