Reviews of Your Farm & Garden (Gardener)

William Stein III

Love this nursery and garden center on S. Boneva. Close in to the city. Great selection of plants and all look very healthy. Employees know what they arw doing and give very good advice on everything from fertilizers to what plants grow best where. Lots of choices of pots and decorative garden accesseries. Very helpful consulting and landscaping design services available at a very reasonable price. Yvonne is a great help.

Cody Loe

Good selection of products. Best solution for your flower pot needs. Although I didn't get any help lifting very heavy pots until I was ready to check out. Then they loaded them into the truck.

Daniel Savadel

They have the stuff I needed, the services I wanted & the answers to my questions

Dragos Macelaru

Great plant selection, friendly staff. EXPENSIVE!! But you can find really awesome plants. And sometimes some plants are on sale.

Michelle X

I've been going to farm and garden for close to 30 years for the most part been without incident. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable & they have a cute collection of eclectic gardening items & an excellent selection of plants & trees. However, today, they would not honor a price that was on one of their items. When I tried to discuss it w the manager Scott, he rudely stormed away mid sentence about 10 seconds into the discussion. The owner Amber was equally as unhelpful. I would recommend going there for small items or if u r ok w getting limited to no customer service or problem resolution from Management. Work w the staff as much as possible because the manager & owner are clearly uninterested in customer satisfaction or problem resolution. Maybe it was a bad day for Management but it is customer interaction like this that will keep the big stores on top when the local businesses are more expensive, management that openly demonstrates no customer service skills & dont honor the pricing on the items (even if its mismarked). Even offering a courtesy discount because of the confusion would have been enough to stem the ill will. There were an infinite number of ways they could have chosen to handle this situation & they did it the worst possible way -- rude, disregard & no sense of customer service. If I was reviewing based solely on the floor staff & inventory, I would give 5 stars but since I have to include Management, I only give 2 stars. I will shop there with the conditions I previously outlined because I luv the floor staff & they are well worth the visit.

Jacki Zimmerman

overall very rude and unhelpful staff. walking around for 20 minutes looking for someone to help me and they were not even busy. finally found someone and she acted like she was doing me a favor just answer a question, on what they have in stock. mirror also way overpriced for what you're getting.

Anthony Teed

Always a great day when I visit. Independent but very nice size and wonderful selections. A must check out!

demitria kuzicki

I can always find what I need

T T

This place is huge! There's a great selection year round. Staff are always useful and friendly. Definitely one of my favorite garden centers in Sarasota.

Brian Harrison

I love this store. Great selection and prices. Staff is very knowledgeable and always willing to help.

Team Mazirati

Was very informative, friendly staff, plus had everything we was looking for. Highly recommend

Nicholas Carlone

Great shop

Michael Kiger

Knowledge and service was great.

George McDermott

Knowledgeable, helpful, and personable. No better garden center around, especially if you have questions.

Ashley Ross

This place is wonderful!!! As someone who knows very little when it comes to plants, I found the staff extremely welcoming and helpful! Mike answered all of my questions and gave me lots of great advice. I will definitely be back!

Clarissa

Disclaimer: I am new to planting so I do not have a lot of experiences with nurseries BUT... the staff at Your Farm & Garden were all very kind and helpful. Rapheal was very knowledgeable and helped me get exactly what I need. I will not be going back to Lowes or Home Depot anytime soon for gardening needs.

Kevin Belalcazar

All your garden needs and more

Renee Inman

Lots of great garden and lawn things.

Tricia Whitlock

Love this place...great plants, pots, every kind of imaginable outdoor art, and friendly service!

Terri Goldbloom

We had a very positive experience and would definitely go back for more garden needs

Jennifer Vreeland

As a Sarasota resident and biologist, I haven’t found any place comparable to the quality of flora and knowledge of staff.

Maggie Ridgeway

Beautiful pottery selection and so many unique plants. It’s always a pleasure to wander through this garden center.

Barbara Kinnas

Nice place beautiful urns and lawn deco we got questions answered too we will visit again

Louis Aldrich

Great place to shop. Can find everything you would want for your yard. Prices are reasonable.

Kristy Otterbein

Lovely, good selection

Russ Ryan

My favorite plant shop - the people are very helpful!

David Vincent

the staff was friendly and attentive. The succulent collection was lacking and they had many other beautiful plants shrubs and trees.

Rebecca Hedrick

My first experience buying a fruit tree........The employee was wonderful and searched for just the right tree for me. He explained how to maintain it and helped with what we needed for planting. We are new to the area and we will continue to use this company again and again. Thanks for GREAT service !!! Beautiful tree service !

Patrick O'Connor

Very disappointed! Disappointed in the small size of the plants I recieved for the large price I paid. The first picture is a big, beautiful pothos I bought at a nursery nearby for $12.50. I needed 13 more for decorating our church. I showed the people at Your Farm and Garden the 1 plant I had purchased, and they said they could order 13 more for me. They seemed confident they could get me what I wanted. They later called and said it would be $25 per plant and I would have to pay for them in advance. Since I could not find any 10" hanging pothos plants elsewhere, I did this. A week later, when I went in for the plants, they were small, and flimsy, and hardly grown at all. The second picture is of the plants I recieved from Your Farm and Garden for over double the price of the first one. The decoration in the church looks terrible! 1 beautiful pothos purchased elsewhere, and 13 ugly, tiny, overpriced pothos purchased at Your Farm and Garden. ☹ By the way, I drove an hour from Fort Myers to do business with them. What a waste of time, energy, gas, and money. Unreliable business!

Kelly McKay

Nice place for plants, garden decor, and plants. Prices tend to be higher then most of the places in Sarasota but the selection is always great and the quality is good, too. Friendly staff is always helpful.

Mocha Joe

Found what I needed and more.

Sarah Parker

Interesting collection of plants! Lovely customer service.

Amanda Faust

WOW! Hard not to buy everything. Such a wonderful selection of annuals, perennials, herbs, shrubs, and trees! They also have an extensive collection of items to add a little (or a lot) of flair to your lawn and patio. What I really love about this place is that they tell you which plants prefer shade (and that's where they are displayed - in the shade). The sun loving plants are IN THE SUN! So you know that when you decide to plant them in the sun at your home, they have a fair chance. Go check them out!

Bridget Wreford

Super slow servicez

Pamela bucci

Specialty nursery. One of a kind. I have shopped there for at least three decades

B Bryan

Staff was incredibly helpful, and it has an amazing range of products. Will definitely recommend to others, and shop here again for all my gardening needs.

Russell Wiseman

Knowledge staffing ,clean, and great looking plants

vincent brennan

Excellent quality and array of choices with superb and knowledgeable service

I LOVE puppies

Very helpful, my novice questions and mis pronounce plant names were greeted with a smile.

Matthew

Huge selection. Great prices. Fantastic help. And just about everything your gardening heart would ever need

Max Crabtree

GO TO WALMART FIRST FOR ROSES. I went to pick up 2 roses that I ordered from this nursery. I was very disappointed in the size of plant for the price I paid. I wanted to return one and be refunded. The staff person went on how I caused them to loose a sale etc etc. I just said never mind, took the plants and left. I will never return to this nursery!

Mike Kalien

Great

Reed Copsey

This is a very good neighborhood nursery. It is bigger than you think seeing it from the street, but is still smallish. The staff were very helpful and reasonably knowledgeable.

Mika Buick

Very nice selections of plants. And helpful staff. Price are good too.

john nollen

Lots of plants, pots, seeds and plants. A large quality lineup to select from.

Sandra Robinson

Farm and Garden has helpful knowledgeable staff and grown for our climate plants. A large selection of garden supplies, garden ornaments and extensive selection of seeds have me coming back time after time. Always something new to be found.

Pam Bournival

I really enjoy this garden center. The plant varieties are exceptional. Garden extras such as pots, decor, flag and whirligigs are plentiful. Staff is very friendly and helpful. I am grateful that when they left downtown, they did not leave Sarasota!

Ruthann Halay

Great garden and gift store. Helpful employees easy to find and help. Beautiful plants, pots and accessories, gifts.

Cla Sav

Great store .Helpful and friendly staff

Julie Hardie

Awesome people...very knowledgable...friendly...great prices...

jason barton

Best nursery around staff very professional

Chris Luis

This is hands down the top plant store in the area. The selection is broad and meets many different needs. The staff is friendly and attentive. Highly recommended

Janet

Super helpful staff. Lots of stuff you can't find anywhere else in Sarasota

Greg Hellman

They have a large selection of plants, flowers, and trees and have very knowledgeable sales help. The loaded everything into the car for me and put down plastic.

L Jönebring

Good selection of plants, helpful friendly staff.

Stoneymorskilives Morey

Excellent food & service, great bakery

PatriceZZZZZZZZZZZZZ .

Great place, been going for decades. New location is inconvenient for me, but worth it. Great staff, a clerk spent 15 minutes on the phone explaining how to fix a major problem with a $6.00 product and reviewed the directions when I arrived. Great place to browse for ideas. Efficient and relaxing. Good plants..

Pat T.

Good selection of flowering plants and many different types of shrubs. Great selection of just about everything you need for your garden.

jay saucier

Very knowledgeable staff. I was looking for a grass substitute for my backyard space.

Stephanie Elizabeth

Beautiful place to experience. Meets all your garden needs plus some. They even have water lilies and other aquatic plants which I've been looking everywhere for. Highly recommend!!!

Rob Anderson

LOVE the quality here...the orchids, for instance, are breathtaking. The selection has likewise got it all over the big box garden depts. Prices on certain items may cause some sticker shock, however. But still very worth the drive and certainly worth a few extra bucks to support local businesses of this caliber!!!

Stephen Spotte

I've been buying plants at Farm & Garden for nearly 15 years, spending considerable sums in the process. The personnel are usually friendly and helpful, but I'll never use them again after today's experience. I'd ordered some plants to be delivered, leaving my phone number for the person responsible to call for the list of items. I telephoned him three times over two days. After the third call my phone finally rang. I read my order and arranged for delivery. I repeated the list to be sure we both understood. The plants arrived as scheduled. I refused the annuals because they were all one color instead of the mixed colors I'd specified, perhaps an honest mistake. Among the other items on the list were four oleander shrubs of the cultivar "Petite Pink," which during our conversation he assured me were in stock. I had been at F & G the previous day I'd seen only a few "Petite Salmon," a different cultivar distinguished by its salmon-colored flower. I assumed the "Petite Pink" plants were new arrivals, but as subsequent events played out they obviously weren't. Specimens of "Petite Pink"were appeared instead, so on delivery I refused them too. Another possible miscommunication? Hardly. The order-taker called me shortly afterward claiming any mistake over the shrubs had been mine, that the oleanders were indeed "Petite Pink." I said they'd been labeled by the wholesaler as "Petite Salmon." He said the labels were incorrect. They weren't. He either can't tell the plants apart or thought I wouldn't notice. Whatever the case he blamed me instead of taking responsibility. He was surly and rude and kept interrupting the conversation. Afterward I called the desk at F & G and asked that the manager contact me, which he later did. He professed ignorance for why he was calling me. When I explained he had nothing to offer, evidently unperturbed by the lack of knowledge and unprofessional behavior of one of his staffers and failure of another to transmit the message. You'd think the management would care; management doesn't care. The plants were inexpensive, and F & G should have owned up. I'd told the driver I naturally pay for the replacement plants when delivered (F & G already had my credit card number). I don't claim expertise in everything, but I've studied plants for more than 50 years. I have an earned doctorate in biology. I've written a book titled "Coastal Florida Gardening: A Botanical Perspective" sold on Amazon and published scientific articles in plant physiology. I know and recognize the species I ordered through a botanist's eyes. In my opinion F & G, in its unabashed snobbery and apathy, has lost the little technical credibility it might have acquired, and I wonder if a trained horticulturist is even employed there, much less a botanist. Certainly the man who "helped" me seems unqualified as either. If I could assign zero stars to F & G I would. A single star is one too many.

Deborah VanLandingham

Bob was extremely helpful with my selection. I love shopping where people are rea lot i interested in my projects.

Richard Slocum

This place has some real interesting variety and alot of ornamental flowers and stuff.

Xeon Blowback

Good staff and grate inventory!

Ashley Sweeney

Great plant selection and they carry all of my favorite organic soils. A+ customer service - everyone who works there is always smiling!

selfslaughter

beautiful place with wide variety of plants and pottery :) even if youre not looking to buy anything i still highly recommend going in and checking it out.

alexander spano

Great place! has all the soil nutrients you need (for general gardening)

Robert Sally

Excellent staff good choices

Mlchael Hayden

Good selection but pricey.

Danny Riches

A huge variety of plants and products plus helpful staff.

isaac cortes

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Donette Cabrera

Great selection, but a little pricey

John Smith

Great service

Patrick Doyle

Always something new and beautiful in stock

RE C

Great items for home, lawn, patio, garden. Some at great prices, some a little pricey. Overall the place to go for decor and garden stuff.

martin d

Great place, everything we needed

Heidi Gilson

Love this place, prices on the high side, but great selection.

Ksenya Seager

Such a wonderful store with great prices and amazing, knowledgeable, and helpful staff (especially Vinny).

Rachelle Miller

I love this plant place. I have gotten so many different succulents for my little succulent garden. I love plants and this place fuels my obsession. It's so close to where I live, that sometimes when I feel overwhelmed, I just go here to get some plant therapy.

Lisa Evans

Love this place for all of my gardening and yard needs. Everyone there is very knowledgable, especially in regards to planting in this area.

Stacey Solum

We buy all of our garden supplies here. Everyone is very helpful & knowledgeable. Never think of going anywhere else.

brettrose34 .

Very helpful staff, Raphael is the man if you want to talk bonsai.