The Growing Place

I just Love this place! I Love the way the plants/​gardens are displayed and the awesome selection of garden decorations.

The quality and selection of plants is superior to other nurseries in the area. The staff is extremely knowledgeable and eager to provide guidance and direction on plant selection. I’ve been going here for years and recommend The Growing Place to my neighbors.

I’m a fan. I’ve been here a couple times already this year. It’s kind of relaxing and fun. They have a good selection of plants, both flowering and eating varieties. Many of the more common items are no more than what you’d spend at a big box type store, and the quality is great. Even when it’s busy, it’s not really crowded. I’ll be back!

Beautiful selection and nice display gardens. I like how each item is labeled and contains useful information. Very helpful service.

The service at the Growing Place is great! The first time I went, one of the staff helped me for about 15 minutes. I was looking for plants to put in a particularly wet part of my lawn (at least it’s wet when we don’t have a drought). I was looking at the water plants, when I was informed that what I really want is wet tolerant plants. The difference is that water plants expect water all the time, while wet tolerant plants can handle both wet and dry spells (not too dry). I’ve since spent a good deal of money there, which I’m sure will continue next spring. They can be a bit pricey compared to the big box home centers, but the service and quality of the plants make up for it. Here are a few tips to save a few bucks.
1. Purchase perennials in the fall. They’ll go on deep discounts (up to 50%), but you will be limited to what’s left (many of the late blooming perennials).
2. Sign up for their rewards club. They keep track of how much you spend and send you gift certificates when you hit milestones. It keeps accumulating over the years, doesn’t expire, and each certificate steps up in value (first is $ 5, second is $ 10 and goes up to $ 40 before it starts over at $ 5).
3. Sign up for the email newsletter. They’ll send you coupons each week.

Yes, they are pricier than buying from someone’s yard sale or the local grocery but there are several things you will find here that you can’t elsewhere:
1. An amazing selection of everything, Flowers, shrubs, free lectures, furnishings, anything and everything for the garden, worm castings, etc. I love my Grape Bubblegum Irises and giant Allium.
2. People who know gardening. Occassionally there is a 20 something here who doesn’t know much but look for the seasoned, weathered gardening men and women, they are chock full of info.
3. Amazingly healthy plants. With the exception of bad advice to dig something up at the end of season from an aforementioned 20something, I have never had a plant die from here, be diseased, etc.
Now, the bad part, my average tab here is $ 200 – 400. But you do get coupons if you enter their savings program (free to you) for $ 25 off.
I like this location better than the Plank Road Naperville location personally because of the layout, more roomy.