Russell’s Garden Center

This place gives me joy. I shop here year round and whether it’s for the garden our home, I always find something useful. We buy our Christmas trees here, and they always last much longer than average. The staff is friendly and helpful. And the Winter Farmers Market… omg, talk about happiness. It’s become quite an event in the winter and I look forward to driving there every Saturday morning when I’m in town. Everything about Russell’s is great, except for the prices. But it’s a business I feel good about spending my money at.

I LOVE this place! Just wow.
Incredible foliage indoor greenhouse w hundreds and hundreds of houseplants. So many varieties of pothos and philos. Jaw dropping giant ferns. They have all the tropical foliage you dream about but hardly get to see anywhere. They keep the foliage greenhouse well-​stocked and you could go twice in a month and they’ll have ALL new everything. How great!
A great source for all the annuals and perennials you could ever want — they have so many varieties of hosta. I love it. Beautiful succulents. Lots of garden ornaments and décor like BIG chimes and marble fountains, just to name a few.

This is definitely the best garden center around. They always have a fantastic selection and very helpful staff. Their Christmas selection is one of my favorite. The only downside is that they are quite expensive. If you haven’t been I definitely recommend you at least go to browse. In the winter they also host a wonderful farmers market! Great place to go year round.

Best best best garden center around. You will pay a premium here (hence the 4 stars) but good lord, it’s so worth it. This place is huge and has the best selection. Most importantly, the staff is is on top of their game. They know everything and can really help you find what you need. There’s no hard sell — they want your garden to thrive so you keep coming back every year. Russell will always have me as a loyal customer.

My wife and I were having a little hard time finding the organic vegetables because they need to be kept separate to adhere to organic standards as soon as we found an associate I think her name was Karen she immediately got on the phone and contacted the right department and personally led us to where we needed to be with two kids on a hot day this was extremely helpful top notch customer service on a super busy day and the quality is unmatched can’t wait to enjoy my vegetables

Great staff, plant selection, garden tools and supplies, toy section, and lots of other stuff. Been around since the late 1800’s. Owned by the same family. Particularly appreciate the Saturday Winter Farmer’s Market between New Year’s and March. Great use of their greenhouse space. Plants aren’t inexpensive, but quality and variety is tremendous.

I like Russell’s they have a lot ot offer. I especailly love their winter market., however my mom has been trying to be a vender for years. They have very unique gifts. They have such a diverse selection of plants. It is somewhat expensive so I go to home depot more than I go here, but when I want something really uniwue this is the place to go.

Great plants and great service. Bought a Hyrdofarm dome that didn’t have all the pieces they mailed them out to me, saving me a long trip in.

I stopped by at about 5:15 with my husband to look at their citrus tree selection. I was under the impression they closed at 5:30 (despite the odd party they appeared to be having and this Unilocal page saying they’re open til 8) so we made a beeline to their nursery area and promptly found their citrus trees. A very nice variety and varied sizes, I was really impressed.
Even more impressed by the prices. We went to Weston Nurseries this morning and they had a bare selection with prices twice that of Russell’s (for the exact same brand). Russell’s citrus trees were $ 24.99 or $ 45. I was able to get two of the citrus plants I was looking for, at a reasonable price and able to pick from a few different pots.
Will be back!

Russell’s selection is fabulous, both in wide variety of plants they carry and in the sizes they carry. For me, that’s home-​owner-​can-​plant-​it sized trees. Their selection is as good in the fall as it is in the spring — another great thing if you need to replant any summer drought losses or need fall color. And finally the third is their indoors, a great shop.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! This place is HUGE! HUGE I TELL YOU! Pricey but the quality is bar none and its an experience not to be missed!!!
GREAT selection of everything garden under the sun. Water plants, koi, plants, trees, knicknacs, ornaments… Its LITERALLY A JUNGLE IN THERE!!! (even a petting zoo!, cmon!).

Unreal selection. I spent hours just wandering outdoors and through the greenhouses.
However they are extremely expensive. They have proven winners, which you can get at any other garden store, but here they were at least several dollars more expensive. Even their flats of annuals are $ 2 – 4 more for your basics like pansies and impatiens.
Also, I was there for about an hour and a half at least. It was not particularly busy. I saw many employees but I was not acknowledged once.
This is someplace I’d go back just to look around or if I had something special in mind, but its unlikely I would purchase much there just due to the outrageous prices.

Friendly, helpful staff with a large variety of flowers, plants, etc. Have been here for planters, flowers, seeds and recently Christmas trees.
They have helpful flyers with diagrams of the lot and explanation of what the trees are.
Plus, they have a mac & cheese mini-​food truck out front too! woo!

Russell’s has just gotten bigger and bigger over the years. Went to get a Christmas trees and wreaths last weekend. Though the wreath prices seemed a little steep, they’re worth it. People there are very friendly and helpful. Great garden/​gift store.

Whatever happened to the small town garden center, with great customer service and charm with hard to find neat trinkets? It disappeared when the big box no personality stores came in and stoel the business. This place takes you back in time when there was a small center loaded with garden and hard to find knick knacks plus charm and customer service from a family that has been around the area for centuries. This place actually just went through expansion since a large shopping center opened up across the street and has now created more traffic for the store. This is set just a mile down the road from Wayland center which is off Route 20. A short nice ride from 128,
The place hold so much stuff, they barely have room to move. At Xmas time it is the best, loaded with live trees and speciality made wreaths but all sorts of gifts and toys and lights and decorations. There are also rooms filled with books and puzzles and then downstairs is a huge greenhouse and plants and more gifts and a wreath decorating center. This place gets so much traffic on the weekends, they had to expand their parking lots. I have never seen a place like this since maybe 20 – 30 years ago. The staff here is very friendly and helpful and the gifts inside will please everyone from children to adults. There are about 20 decorated Xmas trees of all themes inside and a nice bird feeder department as well. Nice Koi fish pond in middle of the place and the largest selection of Buyers Caroler dolls I have ever seen. They also have your run of the mill garden supplies and tools etc. The one drawback to this place, the prices are very steep in comparison. However it is understandable and they do have hard to find stuff you cannot get anywhere else. Everyone I take here is blown away at the size of the place and the mazes of stuff this place holds! Worth the trip from anywhere.

Russell’s is a garden wonderland. The staff was knowledgable, helping me understand different choices and values for some trees I wanted to plant.
It is beyond just plants. Russell’s has bird feeders and birdbaths (we purchased a birdfeeder from them). It is also a great place to wander around. There are various Koi fish ponds, a visual potpourri of flowers, and a lot of things which just bring you back to that zen/​cool state of being.
Russell’s also gets an «A+» for service. My wife forgot a coupon at home. They told my wife, ‘just bring in the coupon next time and we’ll adjust as needed.”

I visited Russell’s a few weeks ago to check out their Wednesday afternoon Farmer’s Market with a few girls from work.
I was blown away by the selection of gourmet cheeses, organic wines, fruits, vegetables, spreads and more!
I even had a delicious lemonade that I saw freshly squeezed from ripe lemons, peaches and raspberries right in front of my eyes.
Needless to say, I will most definitely be back.
I truly enjoyed the knowledgeable company of the owner of Tortured Orchard, if you visit the Farmer’s Market be sure to stop by her stall to get some of the most delicious marinades/​sauces you’ll ever taste!
Great experience.

great plants all the time and staff is very helpful. You may be able to find a similar plant for less, but the value you get here can’t be beat. Gardening is not easy and when you have a question you can just call.
These people love their job and the quality shows. This is the type of business you want to support

This place is a mecca for gardeners, with a very nice selection of perennials, and what seems like a mile of indoor plants. They also have a small, but very nice toy selection, gardening tools, clothing, and other assorted gardening paraphernalia, each with their own room (like others have said — it’s really really big).
I love the slightly odd sight of giant koi fish tanks (I’m betting these are real money makers), a small goat pen, and in the summer, room after room of impatiens.
It’s a nice place to visit with the grandparents or younger kids as there’s so much to see. I appreciate the quality plants and supplies (buckwheat hull mulch anyone?), as most of the plants I’ve purchased here have survived the abusive treatment I call gardening.
However, I have to agree with Kerri O. that Russell’s is significantly more expensive than other stores. And don’t ever compare them with the big box retailers — you will definitely have sticker shock. I compromise by buying some of the supplies, equipment and common things at the big box stores and the plants here.
If you want a nice experience, a diverse selection, with expert help at hand, Russell’s is the place for you.

This place is GINORMOUS. Really, it almost should have it’s own area code. I was so excited when I pulled in and saw it was 5 times what it looks like from Route 20.
Oh man, THEY will have the veggies I’m looking for. Nope. Not even a tomato.
Sure, if you’re a tourist and want a weird hat and a spakley overpriced chintzy purse AND a plant for your garden, this is your place.
I’m giving it three stars because it really is impressive, from a size standpoint. And although not entirely helpful, the staff was friendly. (And to be fair, I was looking for help finding someplace else to buy local veggies or veggie plants.) And if you want some flowers or trees for your garden, they probably have them, no matter what it is. (Or a coy pond, or knick nacks.) That said, I had a 2 star experience.