Known for its arid climate, Utah may not be the first place that comes to mind when you imagine a successful garden. Fortunately, this is simply not the case. Those with a green thumb in Utah are in luck! Take advantage of the sunny months, and you’ll grow a lavish garden. If you’re looking to start one of your own, or you’re interested in sprucing up around your home, these 8 garden centers and nurseries in the state will help you out.
Offering a wide variety of shrubs, trees, and flowers, Sun River Gardens is also known for its selection of hip succulents. An accompanying boutique makes Sun River Gardens not only a garden center, but a shopping destination.
No one in Utah talks about garden centers without talking about Cactus & Tropicals. With two locations in Salt Lake Valley, the garden center has both expansive indoor and outdoor areas that operate as venues for wedding receptions and corporate events after the center has closed. If you’re looking for a different type of gardening experience, try taking one of Cactus & Tropicals’ succulent classes.
Glover Nursery is known for its rich heritage and selection of wholesale. If you’re skeptical about buying plants wholesale, Glover Nursery’s plants come with a one year warranty.
While Millcreek Gardens doesn’t specialize in anything in particular, it covers everything from perennials to fruit trees. In this sense, it’s a jack of all trades garden center that will fulfill a wide variety of needs.
J&J Nursery and Garden Center provides nursery stock for over 100 landscape companies, highlighting its popularity with the professionals. According to the nursery’s website, the nursery’s success can be attributed to the fact that they own all their own land and water, and can “control all of their labor and transportation costs, which translates into high quality and reasonably priced nursery stock.”
Located near the beautiful American Fork Canyon, Highland Gardens services originally started as a wholesale supplier in 1984. Now, the business is its own nursery, selling 15,000 baskets and planters, and over 80,000 flats of flowers every year.
Seeing that Utah isn’t particularly warm for most of the year, you may be interested in purchasing plants for your home that can add vibrancy during the winter months. Paradise Palm specializes in house plants, bonsai trees, and orchids, and also sells plenty of lovely ceramics to house these plants.
Riverton’s Arbor Day Nursery sells pretty much anything you could want or need for your garden. Living material, pond equipment, yard art, fertilizers, organic soils—you name it, and they probably have it. If you’re concerned about transporting your purchases, don’t worry: Arbor Day Nursery offers planting services that include delivery, some compost, and the labor of digging.