Franz Witte Landscape Contracting & Nursery

The specialty nursery off State Street with the flamboyance of flamingos in front on the lawn. In addition to a really good selection of trees, shrubs, sub shrubs and perennials in the medium sized specialty retail nursery they also do landscape maintenance and landscape contracting. They were one of three top notch contractors the landscape architect for our plan had bid our job. Although they weren’t the final choice for that contracting, we’ve really enjoyed shopping their plant products, some of which can’t be found anywhere else. Typically the quality of their specimen plants is excellent. And if you’re shopping the retail section the folks there are all so friendly, in particular Josiah who is a gem. We can see ourselves being happy customers here purchasing plant materials for many years as our yard evolves.
THIS N THAT:
1) PARKING: More than ample amount in gravel lot.
2) ACCESSIBILITY: If you can get through the barrier of gravel lot, the main outdoor retail area seems doable for hard surfaces.
3) FLAMINGOS:
a) Yes. They are sometimes called a flock. Or a stand. Or a flamboyance. Doesn’t a flamboyance of flamingos sound best? Here’s how the flamboyance of flamingos landed at Franz Witte… great story… and how you can rent them for the weekend.
b) Pairs of pink flamingos are also available to purchase. In addition to pink flamingos they sell purple-​blue and orange ones in a pair — GO BSU — for $ 22. (Ask us how we know this. :-)).
4) IT’S A BIG ‘UN — THERE’S A GOLF CART: The growing area /​tree nursery part of Witte is huge and if it is too far for you to walk to make selections, they have a golf-​cart-​like vehicle they’ll drive you around in to make your selections. Ask.

We bought a couple Laurels from Franz Witte (FW). We had them plant them so we could get the 1 year guarantee. One of them died within the year. Chris from FW told me that because of the severe winter, they could not honor the guarantee. He also said I should trim off the dead part and let it fill in. What a joke. We replaced the Laurel using Far West Nursery. I won’t use Franz Witte again.