Tangletown Gardens

WOW! Total lack of customer service. I bought 2 peonies a few weeks ago — turns out neither were what the tag said they would be. When I stopped back, both workers blamed customers for changing tags around. When I pointed out that the current tags were obviously wrong on every buckeye belle (clearly a completely different peony blooming than what was labeled) they were like, huh, but did not correct them (just left them). Then they suggested that I should buy the plant when they were blooming so I could see it. Really? ps. many of those plants aren’t even going to bloom this year. Total disregard. One almost tried, the other just seemed irritated to leave his computer. Won’t be back.

Today was my first and last visit to Tangletown Gardens. I saw three employees while I was there, and two of them said «hi» to me, but not one of them offered to help me find anything or asked if I needed any help. I walked past the same two employees several times and each time they were fully engaged in a conversation with each others’ about their personal lives.
The selection was nothing special. I know it’s a small location, but there were more lawn decorations than plants. I was also surprised by how expensive everything was. I expected prices to be a little higher because it’s South Minneapolis, but I was quite taken aback by just how high everything was priced!
I was very disappointed with my visit — most specifically with the lack of customer service — and I will not be going back.

This place is fantastic. My wife and I have become avid gardeners since moving into our home in 2011 and we spend many summer days at Tangletown searching for new treasures for our yard.
The employees here are amazing and have spent countless hours discussing our gardening hopes and dreams with us, giving honest feedback about what they think will and will not work, as well as what they like to do in their personal gardens.
We built a new garden last summer and found many of our supplies at Tangletown. We are planning on putting in another this spring and will undoubtedly be returning to Tangletown for their fantastic service and inventory!
**Added bonus, across the street from Wise Acre Eatery. Go for a lunch and gardening date and get an iced coffee to go, you won’t regret it!
**Second the sentiment on pricing being higher than other places, but the helpful/​knowledgable staff more than makes up for it. They practically act as consultants and when available are more than willing to address any questions you may have.

This place is gorgeous, it’s too bad I was only shopping for my small condo balcony. Can’t wait to come back when I have an actual garden. Lots of cute gift items and unique plants/​planters.

Is this a garden store or a botanical garden?! Tangletown Gardens is simply stunning. It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before. I wasted an hour here without even really trying because there were so many interesting plants to look at and the presentation is gorgeous.
A lot of the reviews are negative due to prices. This is definitely not a place to go for budget plants. This is a place, however, to go for high quality, well cared for and unique plants. I saw plants here that I’ve never seen available before locally. The $ 600 tree was GORGEOUS and incredibly unique. You may not be able to afford a $ 600 tree but some people, especially in that area, can and this is the store to suit their landscaping needs. Tangletown Gardens doesn’t have the greatest selection but they have many basics and for the rest, they focus on less common plants. They also offer ridiculously amazing planters. I was absolutely in awe of the huge succulent planters they had for sale. At $ 140, they were practically in my dreams but again, there are people in that area that can afford those and the «sold «stickers prove it. I appreciated them for how beautiful they are, even if I can’t afford them.
While I was there, I did pick up a rock solid teddy bear sunflower plant for $ 5 and some organic fertilizer. I was impressed at how sturdy the sunflower stem was. As noted above, I had the impression that all of their plants were extremely healthy.
Tangletown Gardens also stocks gardening gifts, cards and misc. They didn’t have a lot of supplies, mostly gifts and the plants themselves. Oh yeah, and you can buy FARM FRESH EGGS here for about $ 3.50/doz! I do wish they had a better selection of house plants.

This is a great place to walk around, but is it a great place to buy plants?
Well sure, if you think that paying way too much for your plant will make you care for it more responsibly and thereby extend the life of said plant.
Tangletown is a beautiful little oasis and I’m all for buying local and paying a little more, but if you’re going that route take a trip to Linder’s or Gertens and pay a lot less for locally grown items. (And get a bigger selection, better quality plants, etc.)
Now if you’re searching for a gift (i.e. a unique garden sculpture made by local artists) that’s another story entirely. Go here for that. It will still be very expensive, but at least these items are fairly unique.

Eh, not impressed. Arrangements are beautiful but they are GROTESQUELY overpriced.
We viewed a wreath and i was expecting it to be $ 200 for the size, nope it was upwards of $ 400. They have lots of fun little items and arrangements inside but they are so jam packed in there you can hardly move around. A small pot with a few succulents was $ 60 – 80 when it would be more appropriate at $ 30. I think the prices were even more skewed since we had just come from Bachmans, which is a little high yet reasonable.
It is a cute place but I wasn’t so impressed with the plants or arrangements that i would have considered paying that amount of money.

Tangletown has interesting items and items you dont find at many other spots. I’ve gotten a few neat garden pieces there and they get many items from local artists, so very cool. My fiancée got a small metal dachshund for our garden, which is now in our house. They are however over priced, you can find many of their plants for 30−50% less elsewhere… but they do have items you just cant find elsewhere.

Tangletown Gardens is beautiful — I actually would say stop by if you’re in the area just to check it out because it is very pretty for a garden center with gorgeous products. Also cool is that they have a CSA, although I haven’t personally used this service so I can’t really rate it.
However, to me, there are other garden centers that I would much rather go to. This is a garden center that seemed to cater to a pretty ritzy crowd. We wondered around for a long while trying to find the vegetable starter plants and seeds and were basically ignored by the workers, despite the fact that they were not busy at all. When a richer looking couple came in, the staff immediately asked them if they needed help.
All of the products were beautiful but to me that isn’t really what I want in a garden center. I want functional products, not elaborate sculptures and pretty pieces to put in a yard or garden. However, if you are looking for a great piece to put in your garden/​yard and have quite a bit of money to spend, come here. The pieces truly were beautiful and high quality.
Of course, there were plants but they didn’t really have much for vegetable starter plants when we came, it really seemed more of a make your yard/​garden pretty with pretty plants and pretty things kind of place. If this is what you want you will be overjoyed, if not skip it and get your gardening stuff elsewhere. But like I said, do stop in if in the neighborhood because it is very pretty.