Lincoln Avenue Nursery

Neighborhood nursery! Love this place! Great service & good pricing! Gorgeous nursery to explore! Love my fiddle leaf fig I just purchased. It’s so perfect!

First time here, as I must have driven by it 50 times without realizing it was there. My landscaper very highly recommended it, and since he has a degree in horticulture I figured if it was good enough for him it must be great. It is in the middle of a residential district, surrounded by houses, so is easy to miss. This place is great!!! I felt like a kid in a candy store! I had been going to Armstrong ’ s, but no more! Huge selection, very well laid out and organized, plants well taken care of, loads of cacti as well as Mexican Folk Art pottery, regular pots, trees, topiary, even bulk dirt, rocks, etc. I have been going to nurseries for decades, and they have plants I have never seen before! Helpful staff, excellent prices, and as a bonus, quite literally a Mom & Pop operation. I much prefer giving my money to individuals who have worked hard for years to build their business, as Ramon and his wife have, than to a giant, soulless corporation.

Bad experience with a special order…
This is a beautiful nursery, tucked into a quiet residential area. The plants all look healthy and there’s a surprisingly large selection.
But I tried placing a special order for a couple of citrus trees and was surprised at how badly it went. First they told me that their order was placed but that the supplier’s truck needed more orders before it would be dispatched. They they said they hadn’t placed the order. While trying to resolve this difference, I got treated like a criminal. Three weeks later only one of the trees came in — they had no idea about the availability of the other. Calling the supplier told the real story: LAN hadn’t placed the order, they could have looked at the grower’s availability sheets to see that the second tree wasn’t available, and LAN hadn’t informed me of all available types of trees, one of which actually would work better for my situation.
During the three weeks this went on, LAN staff (the owners?) seemed totally disinterested in helping. I had to follow up when they didn’t call me like promised. It was like they didn’t care if they got a $ 300 sale. Their delay caused me to not include the trees in the MWD turf removal result photos.
At first it seemed like they could be trusted to help on my project, but they sure disappointed. Now their tree advice needs to be further researched to see how much of it is true.

Great plant selection, nice and knowledgeable people and decent prices. I recommend Lincoln Nursery to people all the time!

Can’t wait to go back! It’s heaven on earth. Ran over there to fill pots on a house I’m staging to go to market. Got lucky and found Kathy who (with my pictures and description) helped me get exactly what I needed. She was fun and very knowledgable. The owners must be fantastic because that place has a great vibe and the employees were all helpful and eager to assist.

this is a great nursery tucked away in a quiet neighborhood of Altadena. if you are into drought resistant plants and succulents, then you will love it here. The staff is very helpful and friendly, and the selection of plants is really great!

I bought expensive planters here, paid my gardener to come get them put the plants in them and found that they were defective. I was told by Lincoln nursery that they would have new ones in The following Saturday but that it was up to me to bring the defective ones back. There was no willingness from there end to make up the expense I am going to have to pay my gardener to make two trips plus unpot and repot these plants. This is not good should customer service, these guys do not stand behind their product.

I like this place. A bit on the expensive side, but good workers and the plants looked healthy.

This nursery is overprice and the owners are greedy, costumer service sucks.
Not recommended shopping here.
I came to buy some shrubs and fruit trees the costumer service is bad. No one asked me if they can help me. I paid over $ 100 on plants and gave them my business.
When some plants died they wouldn’t take it back or refund me my Money.
Greedy business. Thumbs down for Lincoln Ave Nursery.
What you sow you will reap.

Excellent nursery.

Local family-​owned nursery with a great selection of plants, helpful staff and fair prices. I purchased 2 cu yards of mulch over the phone and had it delivered to my home the next day. Salesperson even texted me a photo of the mulch beforehand so I could see what it looked like. Best price I could find in the LA area + delivery charge was very reasonable.

Possibly the best selection of Japanese maple trees in the entire Pasadena area. A good variety of other small to mid sized trees, bushes, plants, and flowers. Decent prices. Helpful, knowledgeable staff. Go.

Lincoln Avenue Nurseries is not only an excellent place to find unusual, interesting and climate appropriate plants, it is also a sanctuary of beauty and peace. The staff is very knowledgeable and able to make useful suggestions. A jewel in Pasadena’s crown.

Beautiful plants, reasonable prices. I definitely had to reel myself in from trying to get too many plants. Walking around and just browsing their selection will inspire you to work on your garden.
They have lots of nice decorative stuff for your garden, and a room stocked up with a good variety of supplies.
The staff was friendly. They offered to help me load everything into my car. First nursery I’ve checked out in the area, but I’ll probably come back here before I go anywhere else!

This is a seriously great nursery for people who are serious about gardening. The family brought it back from a literal dump & it is now beautiful! If you want to shop local & reward a family for their hard work, shop here.

Never seen a flower selection this big. They had flowers and plants I hadn’t even seen before. Huge selection of succulents for $ 2-​$ 4 and they’re beautiful. Nice friendly workers. Very organized and very fair prices. I won’t go anywhere else!
If you buy something big and messy they will line your back seat with plastic and even load it in your car. :)

Stopped by this nursery on our way to Arizona and fell in love. Beautiful selection of succulents an great prices. I’m thinking of stopping again on my way home. There is a small parking lot inside the gate and everyone is friendly and helpful. Don’t blink or you may miss it. Enjoy!

Don’t blink because you might miss it, so drive slow. There’s a small parking lot inside and plenty of street parking. Go here if you have plenty of time because you’re going to need it. Lincoln Ave Nursery is pretty big, and there is a reason why they have been in business for over 100 years!
Everyone in the staff is extremely helpful and there is no doubt that it’s the best nursery in town.

This is a great nursery! I came here last week after having gone to other nurseries, explaining to the people who helped me that I needed plants that could live in complete shade for part of the year, and in punishing sunlight during the summer, as the sun rises higher above my house and covers areas that are in the shade during most of the year. At other nurseries, the employees were very sympathetic with my «tough» situation, but they didn’t offer many options. They just gave me a couple of ferns I could try, and that was about it.
Fortunately, I didn’t buy anything at those places, and kept looking. At Lincoln Avenue Nursery, I met Cathy, who told me I had lots of options. She took me all around the nursery, and helped me pick out some plants that were perfect for what I needed. And the plants we chose happened to be on the less expensive side, too. I planted them over the weekend, and they look great!
I’m going back next weekend to choose plants for a sunnier part of my yard. I’m really excited to have found this place.

As a Pasadena landscaper, and overall plant lover, I’ve been shopping here for years. It’s finally time to write a review!
First off, Ramon, Teresa and Brenda are amazing. Always so kind and helpful. I love to support my local Pasadena family-​run businesses.
Second, every time I come in, they have made some sort of amazing change to the nursery to make it cleaner, more accessible and better looking. They never stop improving. This, in comparison with other local nurseries, is a major reason I shop here.
Third, are the plants. (Although plants are the 1^st reason we shop here) Again, in comparison to local nurseries, Lincoln Ave has high quality plants that are reasonably priced. And a huge selection of plants with everything in mind. Sun, shade, succulents, veggies, indoor, citrus, amazing one-​of-​a-​kind espaliers, groundcover, etc. Not to mention a huge selection of ceramics, garden art, seeds, hats, soils, fertilizers, etc.
Forget the chain stores! Support local small business!