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Berns Garden Center (Middletown, Beavercreek)
Something's always blooming at Berns. With two locations in the area, Berns is a family-owned business that's been growing strong for three generations. They offer a wide range of plants, from houseplants to shrubs. They produce hundreds of plants in their greenhouses, where they care for and cultivate them while testing the different plant varieties to ensure that they'll thrive in the Dayton climate. Whatever your needs or requirements, Berns can find a plant that you'll grow to love, including heat-tolerant, low-light, air-purifying, and pet-safe plants.
Berns also offers landscaping services with skilled designers, installation teams, and gardening experts. They'll work with you to turn the outside of your home into a showpiece with plants, paving, or patios that give your house real curb appeal.
Meadow View Growers (New Carlisle)
Not just your garden-variety garden center, Meadow View Growers has kept green thumbs green throughout the Dayton area for 35 years. What started as just a cornfield has grown to over 40 greenhouse structures specializing in homegrown plants, soil, and gardening supplies. Producing everything from succulents to shrubs to decorate the inside and outside of your home, Meadow View makes gardening simple and provides delivery and installation services.
Meadow View also grows for good by regularly investing in the local community. They even have a butterfly house on-site to teach people about the importance of the pollination of plants.
Grandma's Gardens (Waynesville)
Visit Grandma at this 14-acre garden extravaganza that features ten different buildings, a fishing hole, a barn, an irrigation pond, and live goats. Wander through the paved paths as you view scenic display gardens, ride the mini-train, or make a purchase at the gift shop in the old farmhouse.
If plants are what you need, Grandma's has vegetables, herbs, tropical plants, trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials. You can also find the supplies necessary to keep those plants healthy, including soil, mulch, compost, and gardening tools.
Grandma's also offers pottery, fountains, garden accents, and garden art so you can add some unique flair to your landscaping. Whatever you're looking for when it comes to gardening, one trip to Grandma's Gardens will help you beautify your home and develop a green thumb.
Knollwood Garden Center (Beavercreek)
Stop and smell the roses at Knollwood Garden Center. They offer a selection of potted roses, including tea roses and climbers. In addition, you can find houseplants, bulbs, hanging baskets, water lilies, and both annuals and perennials. They even organize their perennials by color, so you can easily choose the shade that suits your outdoor color scheme.
More than just plants, Knollwood also offers landscaping services, fish food for your koi pond, live tadpoles and frogs, and home and garden decors such as birdbaths and fountains. Knollwood Garden Center, a third-generation family-run business, has just about everything you need to turn your garden into your happy place.
North Dayton Garden Center (Dayton)
With the largest supply of homegrown houseplants and bonsai trees in all of Dayton, North Dayton Garden Center has "50,000 trees and shrubs and a million plants a year"—and growing. There are over 5,000 different varieties of trees, shrubs for all occasions, evergreens, hanging plants, and edible plants. They also have more bonsai trees than probably anywhere else in the Ohio tri-state area.
In addition to their endless variety of vegetation, North Dayton Garden Center features lawn and gardening supplies, from peat moss to potting soil. And if you want to spruce up your outdoor space, you can also find pottery, bird feeders, and statues for almost any garden or lawn.
Stockslagers Greenhouse & Garden Center (New Lebanon)
For over 60 years, Stockslagers has been providing top-quality plants and gardening supplies at affordable prices. You could say that they make homes greener without charging a lot of green. Or maybe that their potting soil is dirt cheap? Either way, Stockslagers is a family business that aims to make gardening accessible to all.
Besides a large selection of herbs, vegetable plants, perennials, and seasonal plants such as fall mums and poinsettias, Stockslagers also sells a whole range of outdoorsy gifts and decor, such as statues, planters, flower pots large and small, festive lawn decor, and stained glass. They even sell patio furniture. Enjoy the tinkling sound of wind chimes? They have them in the gift shop. Need a sun hat for those summer days in the garden? They've got that, too. Whatever you need to make your garden grow or the outdoors your oasis, find it at Stockslagers.
Make the Great Outdoors Greater
As spring arrives and the days get warmer, many people in Southwest Ohio are ready to get out and enjoy the great outdoors. Whether it's patio dining, fresh-picked vegetables from your private garden, or floral scenery on your front lawn, there are many ways to take advantage of nature, even in your own space.
Step outside and head to one of these garden centers or nurseries in the Dayton area, where you can load up the back of your Chevrolet with your favorite plants or garden decor. Do you have a go-to garden center that we didn't mention here? Let us know, and we'll gladly add it to our list.