Garrison Foothill Nursery

I don’t understand the negative reviews. Home Depot is definitely not better, especially when you looking for so cal native plants. I’ve stood in Home Depots garden section several times looking for help and leaving empty handed and frustrated. At least here the staff knows what they are selling.

My husband and I have visited this nursery 4 times now. The first few times we placed some special orders. When we went to pick up something that had come in, they weren’t open, even though we visited during their very limited hours. We’d even told them when we be stopping by and no mention that they’d be opening late that day. We won’t go back, it’s too frustrating when you want plant materials and you aren’t sure if they will even be open.

We used Garrison for design and installation of both front and back yards. They are wonderful people to work with. They specialize in drought tolerant plants, but can get anything you want. My front is like an English garden and just beautiful… filled with flowers. The back is similar, but not to the degree. I would highly recommend them!

There plants were over priced and selection was slim. Left there and went to Home Depot and found a way better selection. Disapointing

GREAT place to find out anything you want to know about growing plants in the area. Loved them!

Great local fauna and flora, my wife ordered some grasses and they were terrific about calling us and staying on schedule. We are new to the area and they had lots of local stuff that we werent familiar with. They were grat about explaining everything and beyond knowledgeable they were kind and here is something important.
they keep there hours. You see we went there on a freezing day — and we went about 10 minutes before 5 on a Saturday. There was no one going out on this cold windy miserable day and we showed up at the last minute and they were open and nice and polite and spent time to explain everything, i never felt rushed.
great quality plants and great group of people.

I should say I’ve only been to Garrison once, but I’ve made a number of referrals to different friends to this nursery.
They specialise in native/​xeriscape plantings for the Southern California area. Let me say that this automatically gave them a +1 star as water, its procurement, and its costs are a great concern of mine, especially in Southern California.
The second thing that makes me favour this nursery is they are a small business, and I believe they take much better care of their plants than do larger chains like Home Depot or Lowes.
I haven’t been back to the nursery in a couple of years, but what they had then was a great selection of different plants, many of them superiorly attractive and well suited for the style and décor of gardens in the area.
Recommendation: go and learn how beautiful xeriscape can be. Even if it’s only one tree.

Garrison Foothill Nursery specializes in local/​native plants that are drought-​tolerant. They have an extensive selection, but half the time you come here, it’s as if nobody is present to answer any questions or help out. Still, if you’re looking to move away from grass and typical water-​hogging shrubbery, this is a good place to visit and get some ideas.