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Wilson's Nursery & Garden Center
💬 839 reviews4.7
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Wilson's Nursery & Garden Center

Full-service Retail Garden Center. Top products: trees, shrubs, perennials, houseplants, annuals. Established in 1952 by James Wilson, Wilson’s Nursery & Garden Center in Rock Hill, South Carolina, has evolved from a small open-air market into a robust horticultural operation spanning over 10 acres. The facility features a complex of 23 greenhouses, enabling the company to grow approximately 75 percent of its plant inventory on-site. This vertical integration allows for competitive retail pricing for homeowners and professional landscapers alike. Their core offerings include a diverse inventory of trees, ornamental shrubs, perennials, houseplants, and seasonal annuals. Beyond live plant material, the nursery provides essential garden hardscapes, including concrete garden features and decorative pottery. Operated by generations of the Wilson family, the business maintains a focus on community-centric customer service and horticultural expertise, having been recognized as a top regional garden center for nearly two decades.

📍929 W Main St, Rock Hill, SC 29730, USA
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Plant Stella
💬 629 reviews5
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Plant Stella

Indoor Houseplant Retail Nursery. Top products: Rare houseplants, Tropical plants, Bonsai, Succulents, Stylish planters. Plant Stella, located in downtown Greenville, SC, is an urban horticultural retailer specializing in indoor greenery. The business functions as a boutique plant nursery with a primary focus on rare houseplants, tropical varieties, bonsai specimens, and succulents. Beyond plant sales, the establishment offers specialized services, including professional potting assistance and an interactive terrarium bar for customers to create custom indoor landscapes. While the facility incorporates a café component offering coffee and tea to enhance the shopping experience, the core operations are centered on the curation, maintenance, and retail of diverse indoor plant species. The business serves local homeowners and indoor gardening enthusiasts, positioning itself as a destination for creating indoor plant collections. Their service model combines horticultural retail with experiential amenities, catering to an urban demographic interested in home plant care and botanical interior design.

📍11, Falls Park Drive, Greenville, South Carolina, 29601, US
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Cold Creek Nurseries
💬 573 reviews4.6
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Cold Creek Nurseries

Full-Service Nursery and Garden Center. Top products: Ornamental trees, Flowering shrubs, Perennials, Tropical plants, Garden tools and pottery. Cold Creek Nurseries is a long-standing horticultural institution in Aiken, South Carolina, with nearly 50 years of experience serving the CSRA region. Operating as a comprehensive garden center and plant nursery, the company provides a wide array of botanical offerings including ornamental trees, flowering shrubs, tropicals, and perennials. Beyond retail plant sales, Cold Creek functions as a professional landscaping firm, offering services ranging from initial design and site layout to long-term installation and maintenance. The business caters to a diverse clientele, including homeowners and regional property owners, focusing on creating functional, enduring outdoor spaces. Their operations are supported by a retail garden store featuring high-quality horticultural tools, pottery, and home goods. Additionally, the business incorporates a local market component that emphasizes regional produce and culinary goods, further integrating the brand into the local community. Their mission centers on providing expert-curated plant selections and practical gardening solutions for both novice gardeners and seasoned professionals.

📍398, Hitchcock Parkway, Aiken, South Carolina, 29801, US
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Piedmont Farm & Garden
💬 470 reviews4.7
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Piedmont Farm & Garden

Vegetable and garden nursery. Top products: heirloom vegetable plants, garden seeds and bulbs, onion sets, seed potatoes, gardening tools. Piedmont Farm & Garden is a long-standing horticultural supply business based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with 56 years of operations. The company specializes in the retail sale of seasonal vegetable plants, including a diverse catalog of heirloom and hybrid tomatoes, eggplants, and a vast array of pepper varieties ranging from mild to extreme heat. Their inventory covers the full growing cycle, featuring cold-hardy fall vegetable starts such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, and cauliflower. Beyond live plants, they function as a comprehensive garden center, offering non-GMO vegetable seeds, seed potatoes, onion slips, and garlic sets. While they also maintain a significant inventory of gardening hardware, beekeeping equipment, animal feed, and specialized fishing supplies, their core mission remains supporting both hobbyist gardeners and local farmers. They operate through both a physical storefront and a national e-commerce platform, serving customers across the United States with the exception of the West Coast due to transit limitations.

📍7043 Howard St, Spartanburg, SC 29303, USA
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Blue Buddha Farm
💬 434 reviews4.8
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Blue Buddha Farm

Specialty Bulb and Tuber Nursery. Top products: Caladium bulbs, Dinnerplate Dahlia tubers, Canna Lily bulbs, Alocasia/Colocasia tubers. Blue Buddha Farm is a specialty horticultural supplier focusing on the retail distribution of ornamental bulbs and tubers. Their core catalog emphasizes seasonal flowering plants, specifically specializing in a wide variety of Caladiums, Dinnerplate Dahlias, Canna Lilies, and Alocasia/Colocasia species. The business operates as an online plant retailer, shipping high-quality horticultural stock directly to homeowners and gardening enthusiasts across the country. By curating specific varieties such as 'Lava Glow' Caladiums and 'Shiloh Noelle' Dahlias, the farm caters to those looking to add aesthetic value, color, and structure to their private residential gardens. Their operations revolve around the seasonal availability and fulfillment of these specialized plant components, positioning them as a niche supplier within the decorative garden industry.

📍7509 White Horse Rd, Greenville, SC 29611, USA
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Farmers Exchange
💬 406 reviews4.8
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Farmers Exchange

📍321 S Cherry Rd, Rock Hill, SC 29732, USA
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Reese's Plants
💬 384 reviews4.6
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Reese's Plants

📍10418 Wilson Blvd, Blythewood, SC 29016, USA
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Hyams Garden & Accent Store
💬 341 reviews4.4
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Hyams Garden & Accent Store

Full-service retail garden center. Top products: Ornamental plants, Shrubs and perennials, Garden supplies, Statuary and fountains, Home and garden décor. Established in 1981, Hyams Garden & Accent Store is a prominent retail garden center located in the Charleston, South Carolina area. The business serves both residential homeowners and gardening enthusiasts by providing a comprehensive selection of healthy ornamental plants, shrubs, perennials, and seasonal greenery. Beyond their plant nursery operations, they offer a wide array of horticultural supplies, including specialized garden tools, fertilizers, and pest management products. A key component of their business model is the integration of an Accent and Gift Store, which features high-end home décor, pottery, garden statuary, and custom fountains, positioning the store as a destination for both landscaping needs and outdoor living enhancement. The company employs a dedicated team of professional horticulturists and design experts who assist customers with plant selection, garden maintenance advice, and ecological gardening practices, such as creating pollinator-friendly habitats. Their mission centers on providing quality and expertise to the local community, supporting both ornamental landscaping and home-grown edible gardening initiatives.

📍870 Folly Rd, Charleston, SC 29412, USA
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Brownswood Nursery & Landscape - Charleston Landscape Design, Installation, and Garden Center
💬 285 reviews4.8
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Brownswood Nursery & Landscape - Charleston Landscape Design, Installation, and Garden Center

Full-Service Nursery and Landscaping. Top products: Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Ornamental Grasses, Seasonal plants. Founded in 1978 and based in Johns Island, South Carolina, Brownswood Nursery & Landscape operates as a comprehensive horticultural center and design-build firm. The business functions as both a retail and wholesale plant supplier, maintaining a large garden center that offers an extensive selection of seasonally rotated trees, shrubs, perennials, and native ornamental grasses. A key differentiator is their 'Brownswood Grown' program, where they utilize decades of local horticultural expertise to cultivate plants specifically acclimated to the Charleston climate, ensuring higher success rates for local landscapes. Beyond plant sales, the nursery serves as a full-service provider for residential and commercial clients, offering professional landscape design, consultation services, and site installation. Their operations span a wide range of outdoor development, including the planting of nursery stock alongside hardscaping elements like patios and water features. The company targets both homeowners and professional landscapers, emphasizing a foundation of deep botanical knowledge to guide clients in selecting and maintaining appropriate plant materials for regional conditions.

📍1290 Brownswood Rd, Johns Island, SC 29455, USA
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Lichtenfelt Nurseries
💬 269 reviews4.8
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Lichtenfelt Nurseries

Full-Service Retail Garden Center. Top products: Ornamental trees, Flowering shrubs, Indoor plants, Hedging and screening plants, Pottery and garden supplies. Established in 1989, Lichtenfelt Nurseries is a comprehensive garden center and nursery located in Greer, South Carolina. Spanning 15 greenhouses and a 20,000-square-foot display garden, the business serves both residential homeowners and professional landscapers in the Upstate region. Their inventory includes a diverse selection of plant material, ranging from towering shade and flowering trees to shrubs, climbers, and indoor houseplants. In addition to plant retail, the nursery functions as a resource for landscape design and planning, offering expert horticultural guidance. They prioritize high-quality, premium plant stock sourced from across the country. Operating both as a physical destination and an e-commerce storefront with local delivery capabilities, Lichtenfelt Nurseries integrates traditional agricultural retail with modern convenience, positioning itself as a central hub for regional landscaping and gardening needs.

📍947 Anderson Ridge Rd, Greer, SC 29651, USA
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Martin Garden Center
💬 261 reviews4.5
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Martin Garden Center

Full-Service Retail Plant Nursery. Top products: Trees and shrubs, Annuals and perennials, Houseplants and tropicals, Edible plants and herbs, Gardening supplies. Martin Garden Center is a comprehensive 5-acre retail plant nursery and garden center located in Greenville, South Carolina. Serving both residential gardeners and professional landscapers, the business offers a diverse inventory of climate-appropriate flora, including ornamental and native trees, flowering shrubs, perennials, annuals, and indoor houseplants. Their operations focus on providing high-quality, regionally tested plant stock and essential horticultural supplies like soil, fertilizers, and tools. Beyond plant retail, Martin Garden Center functions as a community resource by providing expert horticultural advice, professional landscape design services, and educational classes on plant care and gardening techniques. Their mission emphasizes long-term plant health and local environmental stewardship, with a specific focus on curating plant varieties—such as pollinator-friendly and native species—that are proven to thrive in the Upstate South Carolina climate. They cater to all experience levels, from novice home gardeners to seasoned enthusiasts.

📍198 Martin Rd, Greenville, SC 29607, USA
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Forest Lake Greenhouses
💬 237 reviews4.9
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Forest Lake Greenhouses

Retail and Wholesale Nursery. Top products: Blooming annuals, Tropical houseplants, Perennials, Shrubs and trees, Edible starters and herbs. Forest Lake Greenhouses, located in Florence, South Carolina, is a locally owned and operated horticultural business established in 1989. For over three decades, the company has functioned as both a retail garden center and a dedicated wholesale grower. Their operations are centered on a passion for horticulture, offering a wide array of plant life including tropical houseplants, landscape-ready shrubs and trees, seasonal blooming annuals, and edible vegetable starters. A significant portion of their annual inventory is propagated on-site by their professional staff, ensuring quality and regional adaptability to the South Carolina climate. Beyond retail sales, Forest Lake maintains a robust wholesale department, supplying high-quality blooming annuals—ranging from Poinsettias to Boston Ferns—to other garden centers and commercial clients across coastal South Carolina and North Carolina. The business serves local homeowners, gardening enthusiasts, and commercial wholesale partners, emphasizing educational support, plant health, and community connection through their physical greenhouse facility.

📍3108 Alligator Rd, Florence, SC 29501, USA
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Fast Growing Trees
💬 226 reviews2.4
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Fast Growing Trees

Online Ornamental Nursery Supplier. Top products: Fruit Trees, Evergreen Trees, Shrubs, Flowering Trees, Perennials. Fast Growing Trees is a large-scale online horticultural retailer that specializes in the direct-to-consumer shipment of a vast array of plant material, including fruit trees, evergreen screening trees, flowering shrubs, palms, and indoor varieties. By leveraging an e-commerce model, the company serves a wide demographic of homeowners and garden enthusiasts across the United States. Their business model focuses on making specialized horticultural products accessible to those who may not have local access to diverse nurseries. They place a strong emphasis on providing site-specific guidance by utilizing customer location data (Growing Zones) to ensure that the selected plants are climate-appropriate, effectively reducing post-purchase mortality. In addition to their core inventory of trees and perennials, they offer supplementary horticultural care products such as specialized fertilizers. The company supports its customers through a dedicated advisory service, providing virtual consultations and expert advice to ensure proper establishment and long-term health of their shipped plants, which are backed by a one-year performance guarantee.

📍2621 Old Nation Rd, Fort Mill, SC 29715, USA
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Jasper Feed & Seed Store
💬 214 reviews4.7
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Jasper Feed & Seed Store

📍779 S Jacob Smart Blvd, Ridgeland, SC 29936, USA
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Gunter's Gardens
💬 211 reviews4.7
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Gunter's Gardens

📍315 Caldwell Cir, Spartanburg, SC 29301, USA
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Seven Oaks Plant Shop
💬 203 reviews4.8
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Seven Oaks Plant Shop

Retail Garden Center Nursery. Top products: Annuals, Perennials, Indoor plants, Herbs, Garden soil. Seven Oaks Plant Shop & Garden Center is a long-standing horticultural retailer serving the Midlands region for over 48 years. The business operates as a comprehensive garden center, specializing in a diverse range of plant life including vibrant seasonal annuals, a wide variety of perennials, house-adapted indoor plants, and culinary herbs. Beyond their living inventory, the shop serves as a resource for home gardeners by offering essential horticultural supplies such as premium garden soils, fertilizers, and a variety of decorative planters. Their business model focuses on providing healthier, higher-quality specimens than those typically found in big-box retail environments. Catering to both novice gardeners and experienced hobbyists, Seven Oaks emphasizes professional guidance and community-focused customer service. The facility utilizes onsite greenhouses to maintain their inventory, ensuring that customers receive plants that are acclimated and ready for local landscape integration.

📍4522, Saint Andrews Road, Columbia, South Carolina, 29210, US
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Wilson's Nursery on the Market
💬 200 reviews4.6
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Wilson's Nursery on the Market

Full-service retail garden center. Top products: trees, shrubs, perennials, houseplants, annuals. Established in 1952 by James Wilson, Wilson’s Nursery & Garden Center in Rock Hill, South Carolina, has evolved from an open-air market into a prominent 10-acre horticultural facility featuring 23 greenhouses. The business is characterized by its significant production capacity, as the nursery grows approximately 75 percent of the inventory it sells directly to the public. Serving a diverse customer base, including local homeowners and gardening enthusiasts, the nursery focuses on providing affordable ornamental plants, including a wide selection of trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, and indoor houseplants. In addition to their live nursery stock, they offer hardscaping supplies such as concrete goods and pottery. Now managed by subsequent generations of the Wilson family, the business emphasizes a customer-centric service model, operating seven days a week and maintaining a consistent reputation for quality and value within the regional gardening community.

📍Charleston Highway, South Carolina, 29172, US
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Flowertown Garden Center LLC
💬 192 reviews4.7
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Flowertown Garden Center LLC

Retail Garden Center Nursery. Top products: Native plants, Trees and shrubs, Japanese maples, Perennials and annuals, Garden pottery and decor. Established in 2010 and located in Summerville, South Carolina, Flowertown Garden Center LLC functions as a comprehensive retail horticultural supplier serving homeowners, professional gardeners, and outdoor design experts. The center maintains an extensive inventory of plant material, including native plants, deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, aquatic plants, herbs, and cold-hardy palms. Beyond live plants, the business provides essential hardscape and maintenance materials such as bulk pine straw, river rock, flagstone, fertilizers, and professional-grade gardening tools. The facility is designed for both retail commerce and consumer inspiration, featuring curated display gardens, fountains, concrete statuary, and wrought iron garden structures. The company prioritizes customer education through a knowledgeable staff, providing professional guidance for residential and commercial outdoor landscaping projects. By offering a blend of plant stock, hardscape supplies, and decorative garden accessories, Flowertown Garden Center serves as a destination for regional horticulture and landscape design needs.

📍401, East 5th Street North, Summerville, South Carolina, 29483, US
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Stack's Nursery
💬 180 reviews4.4
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Stack's Nursery

Full-Service Retail Nursery. Top products: Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, Palms, Sod, Hardscaping materials. Located in Summerville, South Carolina, Stack's Nursery is a multi-generational, full-service nursery and landscape construction company operating on a three-acre site. Serving both the general public and professional landscapers, the business functions as a wholesale and retail supplier of a wide array of plant materials, including trees, shrubs, palms, and flowers. Beyond plant sales, Stack's Nursery operates as a comprehensive horticultural and landscape design partner. Their operations include professional installation services, site grading, irrigation setup, and extensive hardscaping, such as paver patios, retaining walls, and outdoor kitchens. The nursery emphasizes expertise, offering customer support, planting guides, and a warranty program for their plant stock. By providing both the biological elements and the physical construction materials for outdoor living, they serve as a one-stop destination for Lowcountry residential and commercial landscape development.

📍245, Rawlins Drive, Summerville, South Carolina, 29485, US
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LowCo Garden Center
💬 178 reviews4.6
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LowCo Garden Center

Retail Ornamental Plant Nursery. Top products: trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, succulents, tropical plants. LowCo Garden Center, located in Beaufort, South Carolina, is a full-service retail nursery specializing in a wide variety of ornamental plants, trees, and shrubs suited for the local climate. They serve a diverse clientele ranging from local homeowners and gardening enthusiasts to property management professionals. Their core operation focuses on providing healthy, acclimatized plants including annuals, perennials, succulents, and tropical varieties, alongside essential horticultural supplies such as soils, fertilizers, and pest control solutions. Beyond retail plant sales, the center operates as a community-focused resource, providing expert horticultural advice and guidance to assist customers with plant selection and successful cultivation. They also provide professional services including landscape design, site maintenance, and installation. The business is noted for its commitment to customer education, high-quality plant stock, and a supportive retail environment that encourages both novice and experienced gardeners to enhance their outdoor spaces.

📍8, Marina Boulevard, Port Royal, South Carolina, 29902, US
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Whitten's Nursery & Garden Center
💬 168 reviews4.7
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Whitten's Nursery & Garden Center

📍1804 Whitehall Rd, Anderson, SC 29625, USA
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Abide A While Garden Boutique
💬 159 reviews4.5
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Abide A While Garden Boutique

Full-service retail garden center. Top products: Annuals, Perennials, Shrubs, Trees, Garden accessories. Abide A While Garden Boutique is a long-standing, family-owned horticultural retailer located in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Established in 1957, the business operates as a traditional garden center and boutique, catering primarily to local homeowners and gardening enthusiasts. Their primary focus is the sale of a diverse range of plant life, including ornamental trees, shrubs, perennials, and seasonal annuals suitable for the regional climate. In addition to their nursery stock, the business functions as a lifestyle boutique, offering garden-related accessories and decor. They provide community engagement through horticultural workshops and events, serving as a hub for local plant education. The business emphasizes a personalized customer experience, supported by over six decades of operational history in the Mount Pleasant area. They maintain a physical storefront on Highway 17, offering both retail plant sales and expert horticultural resources to the surrounding community.

📍Frontage Road, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 29964, US
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Hidden Ponds Nursery
💬 158 reviews4.5
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Hidden Ponds Nursery

Full-service retail garden nursery. Top products: annuals and perennials, herbs and vegetables, shrubs and trees, houseplants, landscaping materials. Hidden Ponds Nursery, located in Awendaw, South Carolina, is a full-service horticultural nursery and garden center offering a diverse inventory of plants suited for the Lowcountry climate. The business provides a broad selection of seasonal plant material, including annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables, shrubs, banana trees, and various ornamental varieties. Their offerings change with the seasons, featuring items like spring blooms, summer salvias and coneflowers, fall mums, and holiday-specific greenery. Beyond traditional nursery stock, they operate an on-site gift shop that carries houseplants, gardening tools, decorative pots, and seasonal home decor. Hidden Ponds serves both DIY gardeners and those seeking professional assistance, providing delivery and professional plant installation services for their products. Their mission focuses on helping customers design and implement outdoor landscape visions through knowledgeable staff guidance. The nursery maintains an accessible, scenic property for customers and operates with a standard retail refund policy for live plant materials.

📍4863 N Hwy 17, Awendaw, SC 29429, USA
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Taylor's Landscape Supply & Nursery
💬 152 reviews4.6
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Taylor's Landscape Supply & Nursery

Retail Garden Center and Nursery. Top products: Trees, Shrubs, Succulents, Herbs, Mulch, Soil, Gravel. Taylor's Landscape Supply & Nursery operates as a comprehensive retail garden center and landscape supply depot. The business serves both residential homeowners and professional landscapers by offering a diverse inventory of horticultural products, including live trees, shrubs, succulents, and culinary herbs. Beyond their plant selection, they provide a full suite of bulk landscape materials such as various dyed and natural mulches, double-milled hardwood, playground chips, pine bark, gravel, and sand. Their operational model focuses on convenience and accessibility, featuring an e-commerce platform for ordering bulk landscape goods and live plant material for local delivery or on-site pickup. The nursery emphasizes customer education, providing expert horticultural advice to assist clients in project planning and plant maintenance. Open six days a week, the business maintains a focus on community engagement, offering loyalty programs and personalized customer service to support diverse projects ranging from small-scale home gardening to large landscaping installations.

📍36 Cecil Reynolds Dr, Bluffton, SC 29910, USA
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The Nursery & Garden Center Market in South Carolina

The South Carolina horticultural market currently comprises 166 verified nurseries and garden centers distributed across 20 active cities. This retail infrastructure supports a diverse demographic, ranging from coastal residential landscaping to inland agricultural operations. The supply chain shows a healthy mix of high-rated boutique nurseries like Plant Stella (5.0 rating) and long-standing established centers like Forest Lake Greenhouses (4.9 rating). Market concentration correlates strongly with population density and regional economic activity, resulting in a tiered distribution of plant stock that caters to varying microclimates.

Top Cities for Nurseries & Garden Centers

Data indicates that 14 nurseries operate in both Columbia and Spartanburg, positioning these cities as the primary hubs for professional horticultural services. This high concentration is driven by the demand from suburban expansion and the necessity of regional distribution centers to serve the surrounding rural counties. Greenville and Greer follow with 9 nurseries each, reflecting the industrial growth of the Upstate region. Similarly, Bluffton maintains 9 outlets, serving the high-end coastal luxury market. Charleston, Aiken, Florence, Anderson, and Greenwood round out the top list, each hosting between 7 and 8 nurseries. These cities serve as anchors for regional nursery supply, ensuring that both wholesale landscapers and retail consumers have reliable access to localized stock.

South Carolina Climate & Plant Selection

South Carolina spans USDA hardiness zones 7a to 9a. This range dictates a specific inventory strategy for local garden centers. Nurseries in the Upstate (zones 7a-7b) emphasize winter-hardy shrubs and trees, while coastal locations (zones 8b-9a) focus on heat-tolerant species and plants that thrive in sandy, acidic soils. The state features predominantly Ultisols, which are clay-heavy in the Piedmont and sandy in the Coastal Plain. Consequently, nurseries prioritize stock that can handle these soil textures, frequently offering soil amendments alongside container-grown ornamentals. Rainfall patterns, which vary significantly from the mountains to the sea, force local growers to stock drought-tolerant native species like native azaleas and hardy grasses, especially in areas prone to late-summer dry spells. Greenhouse-grown stock is essential for propagating sensitive crops during unpredictable early spring frosts, which remain a primary concern for local nursery managers.

Sourcing Plants Locally in SC

  • Prioritize nurseries that propagate their own stock; they are more likely to offer plants hardened to the specific regional climate of South Carolina.
  • Consult with experts at centers like Wilson's Nursery & Garden Center or Brownswood Nursery & Landscape for advice on integrating native cultivars into local site designs.
  • Check the rating and professional standing of a garden center; high-performing retailers like Blue Buddha Farm (4.8) or Lichtenfelt Nurseries (4.8) generally maintain higher standards for pest management and plant health.
  • Review the availability of field-grown trees versus container-grown stock; field-grown material often establishes more quickly in native soil but requires more specialized planting techniques.
  • Utilize local expertise during the transitional spring and autumn windows, which are the optimal planting seasons for the Palmetto State, to ensure root systems develop before extreme temperatures arrive.

By leveraging the existing 166 nurseries, South Carolina residents can access a robust supply of both ornamental and functional plant material specifically adapted to the state’s rigorous and variable climate. Whether selecting stock from a specialty provider like Gunter's Gardens or a general supplier like Jasper Feed & Seed Store, homeowners should prioritize plants that demonstrate high physiological fitness for their specific hardiness zone.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What are the best times to plant in South Carolina?

A: In South Carolina, the optimal planting windows are the cool-weather months of early spring, typically February through April, and autumn, from October through November. These periods allow root systems to establish before the extreme heat of the summer or the potential for deep freezes in mid-winter. Fall planting is particularly effective for trees and shrubs as it utilizes the cooling soil to support root growth without the stress of high solar radiation.

Q: Which native plants are recommended for South Carolina garden centers?

A: South Carolina nurseries frequently stock native species such as Purple Coneflower, Oakleaf Hydrangea, and various species of native Azaleas. These plants are genetically adapted to local soil types and rainfall patterns, making them more resilient to the state's specific pest pressures and climate fluctuations. Using native plants significantly reduces the need for supplemental irrigation and heavy chemical fertilization, as these species have evolved alongside the local pollinator populations and environmental conditions.

Q: How do I choose between container-grown and field-grown plants in SC?

A: Container-grown plants offer year-round planting flexibility and are typically lighter to transport, making them the standard at most South Carolina garden centers. However, field-grown (ball and burlap) trees often have more established root structures, making them potentially more vigorous if planted at the correct time of year. For large landscaping projects in the Piedmont or Coastal Plain, consult with your nursery regarding the root development stage of the specimen to ensure successful long-term establishment.

Q: Does the soil type in South Carolina affect plant health?

A: Yes, South Carolina soil ranges from heavy, moisture-retentive clay in the Piedmont region to loose, quick-draining sand in the Coastal Plain. Most local nurseries will recommend specific soil amendments, such as organic compost or pine bark fines, to improve drainage in clay-heavy zones or increase moisture retention in sandy soils. Understanding your local soil texture is critical, as it dictates how often you must water and which species will avoid root rot or drought stress.

Q: Why should I buy from a local nursery instead of a big-box store?

A: Local nurseries provide plants that are often sourced or grown within the state, meaning they are already hardened to South Carolina's heat and humidity. Unlike national retailers, local garden centers typically offer specific advice on microclimate challenges within your zip code. Their staff possesses in-depth knowledge of local growing seasons and pest issues, providing a level of horticultural expertise and plant quality control that is rarely matched by generic, large-scale supply chains.

⭐ 4.6 average rating across 184 verified nurseries in South Carolina

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mandii post-nelsonEdited 44 minutes ago

FINALLY MADE IT HERE!!!!!! this shop is amazing! Was so happy I got to buy some plants and incense im in love and I cant wait to come back! Love my new addition to my collection 🪴

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Luther CraneEdited 2 hours ago

Fare prices on everything, very friendly staff, they really truly know their plants and I highly recommend this nursery to everyone.

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Versaviya Desparsa day ago

Incredible variety of plants, super fun to look at everything. Every time we have guests visit us we take them here to show them all the cool plants.

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Ryan A2 days ago

Bought 4 gardenias and 2 hydrangeas and they’re beautiful, Staggs has the best selection in the upstate

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J P3 days ago

James and his crew did an outstanding job designing and landscaping our new yard. Added much needed privacy along with beautiful plants. Highly recommend.

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Brittany Hill3 days ago

We purchased a Sabo palm tree from Taylor’s Nursery at the end of May, and unfortunately it died within a few weeks due to circumstances that were completely outside of our control—and outside of Taylor’s Nursery’s control as well. Although we did not purchase the warranty, their customer service was absolutely outstanding. From my very first phone call, they acted quickly to escalate the situation, kept us updated on when their next shipment of palm trees would be arriving, and even called us personally to let us know the shipment had come in so we could choose the right replacement. To make the experience even better, they came out and installed our new palm the very same day! They truly went above and beyond our expectations. It’s rare to find a business that cares so much about its customers and making sure they “make it right”, even when they aren’t obligated to. We are incredibly grateful for their kindness, professionalism, and exceptional service, and we’re so glad we chose to purchase our palm from Taylor’s Nursery. We highly recommend them! ⭐️⭐️💯

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M G4 days ago

I ordered a Colorado blue spruce maybe the 3 gallon not 100% it was around 100 bucks. I was excited, he is beautiful and perfect just as it should be. I’m gonna read up and make sure I plant correctly and do all of the things so this tree lives for many years. I recommend buying plants from here. The customer service department, his name is Elvis was super nice and helpful.

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Jared Taylor4 days ago

I have used MNI dozens of times for plants and they never disappoint. John is a great help in the office and Michelle is terrific as a driver. She always communicates clearly what is coming and when it will be delivered. I never hesitate to recommend them to anyone.

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Craig Kneebone4 days ago

Seth helped me pick out 3 pindo palms and scheduled an install date. The guys called me when they were on their way and arrived promptly on time. I forgot their names, but the 3 did a great job installing and asked if we liked the work, everything is awesome Thank you Evergreen!

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Christa Vealey4 days ago

Her plants are absolutely stunning, and she shipped my bulbs in a super timely manner. Cannot wait to see my Caladiums grow and bloom here soon!

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