Hinsdale Nurseries Inc

Was assisted by Dave K over the past week on shrub selection for my home. He went above and beyond, extremely knowledgable. Thank you Hinsdale Nurseries & Dave!

I brought in some clippings and pictures of shrubs I needed to match from my yard. They pulled out an index and showed me a couple to help me determine what I was looking for. Their office staff was great.
I felt like I was paying a premium compared to going to Home Depot, but the plants were very healthy and even my leftover flowers that are still in the flat a week later (still haven’t made time to figure out what to do with my extras) look to be thriving. I’ll be back whenever I need help identifying something or have a special project.

I try to avoid at all cost! Very rude staff and not helpful at all!!! I’ll go to other local garden centers!

Awesome selection, fabulous people. Pricey, but everything is grown locally and I have never lost anything I planted from here.

In a word, I would describe this place as pretentious. Hinsdale nurseries is the queen bee from high school that made sure you knew you weren’t to sit at her lunch table. Truely snobbery at its finest. Let me explain.
As a new homeowner and amateur gardener, I ventured to Hinsdale nurseries in search of hydrangeas. They have a wonderful variety of very healthy plants, and while more expensive than the average garden center, I felt it was one of the best selections I’ve seen. Being a novice, I sought out an employee to get directions on planting the three bushes I was to purchase. Even though I had been there for well over an hour at this point, no one had stopped to ask if I needed help with anything. I had to track down someone to help me.
The person I found was rude, impatient, and very clearly annoyed that I would ask for instructions on how to plant a hydrangea bush, and what kind of sunlight it would need. It was clear that if you have any questions, you are expected to schedule an appointment with a landscape designer to have them answered — a $ 50 fee for 30 minutes. Excuse me? I’m spending $ 150 on these plants, and you can’t give me 5 minutes of your time to answer two simple questions?
Well, I bought the bushes anyway and figured out how to plant them with the help of Google, and nearly a year later — they’ve done wonderfully.
Late in the fall, I went back to Hinsdale nurseries to purchase some anti-​frost spray for my box woods and mulch for insulation of said hydrangeas. Everything had been pretty much closed up at this point in the season, but their office was open and offering the aforementioned items and some winter bulbs. The young man who checked me out was extremely condescending, talked down to me, and was clearly trying to make me feel stupid for asking about one of the products. Also, I brought my parents with me, and while I was purchasing the items, my dad later commented on how a female employee watched my mother like a hawk, almost as if this frail old women was going to take off with all the paper-​white bulbs in the nursery. Seriously?
Needless to say, I do not plan on returning for a multitude of reasons. Also please consider that they will not offer their 100% guarantee on their plants unless their gardeners plant them. I gave them two stars, because the plants I purchased are top quality, and they do have many hard-​to-​find varieties. But do keep in mind you’ll most likely pay up to 3 – 4 times what you’d pay at another garden center or big box store (for example, Global Blue Spruce runs for $ 200/​bush here, while Pesche’s in Des Plaines offered them for $ 50/​bush, without the attitude). :-)
Hinsdale Nurseries, if you’re reading this — I apologize. How dare I, from the unwashed masses of Downers Grove, attempt to lower your standards. I should have respected the high class establishmeant that you clearly are. I’ll be sure to wear my best fastener, and bring my Royal Doultin china with hand-​painted periwinkles for high tea (pinkies up!), should I ever have the privilege of being in your graces again. I can only dream. ..

We just had Hinsdale Nurseries install a drainage solution in our backyard in LaGrange. With the mass amounts of rain recently, it was put to the test and truly delivered. For the first time ever, our backyard wasn’t a swamp for days after rain fall and it helped our basement stay dry. They also leveled out an old tree stump and added sod, which looks great. We’re so pleased with the quality and service and would recommend for any landscaping project! The sales manager (Zack) was timely & knowledgable. We also met the President (Jim) who was helpful & honest. Thanks for a job well done!

Had these guys come into Chicago to plant trees in our backyard. Went through a few different quotes as we were making up our minds, they were happy to price out different trees until we liked the final plan. The crew that showed up was great, very polite, hard working, cleaned up after themselves and hauled away a bunch of extra yard waste that we had lying around before they got here. They took care of a few additional tasks while they were here and left the place spotless. Very satisfied.

Hinsdale nursery is an amazing grower. I always get amazing service with their knowledgeable staff!

Just had a landscaping project completed by Hinsdale and the results were excellent!!! Fernando, Mike and crew were very professional and helpful. The quality of the work and material was also excellent. The price was on the high side but worth every penny. You get what you pay for with Hinsdale. I highly recommend this company to anybody needing landscaping. My wife and I were very please with the whole process and the clear communication between designer and workers.

We’ve bought some of our flowers here for the past few years. I love wandering around looking at what they have. That being said, we were there Thursday, and while we were wandering around, a worker came up to us and told us they were closed. It was 5 and we needed to check out. I was shocked they closed at 5 and disappointed we had to leave. I would think they’d stay open later during the busy season. Not everyone is available during the day and weekends are just crazy.

I heard about this place through Groupon otherwise I would have never known it was here. Madison St. is kind of off the beaten path of Willowbrook unless you’re from the area.
This place is way over priced for the quality of product they have. Some items were unmarked and not priced. I asked one lady where ground cover was, she grunted and pointed. Great service too!
When I went to check out, the same surly wench bellows out in front of all the customers, «I knew we shouldn’t have taken those Groupons». Well, Broomhilda, from what I saw, the people with Groupons were 75% of your business.
Poor service and over prices, mediocre product… I won’t be back.

The flowers here are hands down, some of the most beautiful I have seen in a long time. Every plant I saw was big and healthy, obviously well taken care of. I only came here because I bought a Groupon for flowers and I am so glad I did.
Every herb I purchased is still doing fantastic in my garden. The herb prices were pretty reasonable too at 2.95 for the pint sized containers. We purchased a few annuals too which are still doing fantastic in my hanger, also reasonably priced.
The prices jump way up though when you start getting into the bigger stuff. There was a Japanese Maple for about 400 $ that was no more than 4 feet tall and plenty of other super pricey trees and shrubs. I am sure the quality is phenomenal, but poor people like me can’t afford 400 $ bushes.
All in all a nice place.

I’m trying to tap my inner Mother Nature. That’s easier said than done. I enjoy flowers, I just don’t like all the work that goes into it. So potted plants on my front and back deck is the way I go in the spring and summer.
They have a wonderful variety of perennial flowers at HN. They have a wonderful variety of just about anything you’d want to plant – trees, shrubs, plants, flowers.
This is a gorgeous nursery. Everything is laid out so nicely. There are plenty of folks taking care of all the greenery and there’s a map to show you where different kids of plants/​trees are on the grounds. I also love the wagons that customers get to pull around to carry all their plants and material. They have a nice selection of pots and organic potting soil. They offer plastic wrap and/​or sturdy boxes to keep things tidy in your car too.
Great place. It is a little pricier than what I’d find at nurseries closer to home. Even with a groupon I found that I could have probably scored more plants at Home Depot or my local nursery for the same price I paid. But friendly customer service and well kept plants were still a big plus.

This place is great for plant nerds like me. Plants are arranged by perennial/​annual/​tree/​shrub and shade/​part-​shade/​sun, like many places, but then alphabetically by genus. So bee balm is under M (for Monarda) and not B. The signs say how much moisture the plants need, and if they are native or not. Since I am an even bigger plant nerd, i wish they noted which ones were edible, but that’s me. Also I noted they don’t really have organic stuff here, which is disappointing
Place is huge though. Lots of plants, literally. Prices aren’t bad, but I had a groupon so that was better. Service was pretty good as there are many people wandering around, as well as catalogs and maps.
All said I think I might be making the trip here every year to supplement my orders online.