Watson’s Greenhouse and Nursery

I hired Watson’s to plant 15 arborvitae trees for me. I worked with Miki Wade, their landscape designer/​garden coach. I ordered the trees through her and she sent her team (2 guys) out to deliver and plant them. They were awesome. It took them 3 hours to plant all the trees which I thought was fast. They were careful and conscientious as they had to work around our sprinkler system and yard lights. But they did a great job and the space looks great now. I regret I didn’t get their names but they were super nice. Miki was helpful and kept in touch with me by phone and email. A very nice experience and I look forward to doing more business with them.

I have been shopping here for about 5 years. My first project on a house that had never been landscaped was from some plans I found on line. Ana Herbal was great at helping me find substitutes for those that were not available. She spent a great deal of time with me from my list. They were just the right colors and sizes for the area. After we had another company landscape our yard I learned that they offer this service as well. The first group did not listen to me so I worked with Miki Wade on a design and plants that I love. She did a fantastic job. She knows every plant just by looking at it and can tell you right away if it needs sun or shade. They come on time when they say they will and finish promptly with no mess. The plants are healthy and they give great tips to insure your success. They have plenty of staff so I have never had a long wait. The products inside are lovely and there is a great variety. I cannot say enough good about my Watson’s experience!

Watson’s is a wonderful nursery and much, much more closer than one we like to go to in Woodinville and has the same high end feel that we look for when we go to nurseries. The selection is vast and wonderful! They have a great assortment of trees, flowers and plants here which is a must stop for those who are into these things! They have an impressive gift section filled with home décor items from outdoor furniture and sculptures all the way down to candles and cards. My last visit here they had a great section with air plants and various accessories to go with them from tear drop vases, upside down accessories to make your air plant look like a jellyfish and metal octagon type objects to suspend your plants from. I was really impressed with that!
There is a café here in the nursery as well with pretty solid item selections and a great place to relax.
Watson’s requires multiple visits at the very least because it seems like the more you explore the place the more you didn’t see from the last visit!

Expensive!!! I love Watson’s. They have a good selection of seasonal plants and thier staff is knowledgeable. However, if you discount both of those things you still have plenty of reasons to check it out. One Enchanted Evening, crafting supplies, and unique treasures area my main reasons to shop here.

The nursery is very nice and clean. The prices however are a bit high especially since I can find the same things at Carpinito Brothers for a much cheaper and reasonable price. I saw many many employees, but never once was I offered help at all. At least at Carpinitos you are asked many times if you need anything and the employees may be young but they have a sense of customer service that I feel lacks at Watsons. And do not get me started on Antons Café within Watsons… Horrible!!!

This is our go-​to place for plant purchases. Yes, they’re more expensive but the variety and quality they sell are worth it. It also means 1) I try my best to wait for a sale and 2) checking the markdown plants
They also sell home décor, food products, and gardening tools but I feel like I can find comparable stuff elsewhere and at a lower price.
Their staff is consistently friendly and helpful. They offer classes throughout the year and I LOVE their Christmas markdowns. Fortunately, I was able to snatch up a few items at 70% off and I’m not talking the meh stuff, either.
They have a small deli inside (I think it’s Anton’s) and I recently enjoyed a delicious ham and cheese panini. Service was thoughtful and polite but the panini was yum. Generous on the ham and cheese while the bread was toasted perfectly. Pricing wasn’t bad and they offer a child menu’s too.
We’ve purchased cheaper plants from other places (mostly hardware stores, etc) and they’ve never panned out as well as our purchases from Watson’s. It’s like buying something at Nordstrom vs a lesser quality company. You get what you pay for. Sometimes you’ve got to bite the bullet and pony up $ 130 for the tree because that $ 50 we bought died.
They have a rewards program too and that might be my only critique. You have to purchase so much to be eligible for a reward. Personally, I feel that amount should be lowered — we’ve only been eligible one year and we’ve been program members for (I think) three.

Watson’s is a beautiful place to visit and you can get a good look at a wide variety of plants. The staff at Watsons really makes an effort to keep the greenhouse and displays looking clean and well kept. However they are really overpriced and you can find plants just as nice at other local nurseries. In many cases plants, especially annuals are superior at other local places. That said I do enjoy coming here in the winter to look at everything and have a nice mocha in the warm greenhouse.

We visit a few times a year and I haven’t experienced this before. The staff was BLAH. The check out girls handed me change, … NOT a thank you or see ya again… I am trying to say that they came across as PRUDISH or RUDE. Not sure why. Are they tired of serving during the SEASON? The Anton’s café had yummi coffee (your safe to drink here) and a really yummi Reuben sandwich, oh and the cookies are delicious. But the staff was REALLY unorganized and uncomfortable. Yikes, they need a little management. I wish I could go and help.

Expensive as all get out BUT they literally have everything you could ever want and more. Plants for inside and outside, tons of supplies, home décor (Christmas time is SO GREAT), and the staff is top notch. They really know they’re stuff.
Café is also amazing.
They host gardening classes too!

All the blueberry bushes I purchased at watsons are so much bigger and healthier than all others I have purchased elsewhere this is a real nursery and all employees very knowledgeable on products they sell. This place also has great bulb selection and Christmas trees in winter! This place worth the drive!

Mega nursery with the highest quality plants to be found in the region. Professional free advice and they will even plan a garden for you I f you ask. And when I say plan, I mean they will come to your home and help!

This is the BEST nursery! As soon as you drive up, you KNOW that you will find everything and then some here. The presentation of the way the plants are displayed are amazing! They also have many home and garden artistic accessories that are displayed beautifully. Today they were having their 40% off of their outdoor plants. Watsons do have a reward program. One of the folks we spoke to regarding wisteria was «Anna». She was very knowledgeable, courteous, answered all of our questions and even carried our wisteria tree (approx. 15 gal) to will call for us. Everyone we encountered were exceptional and we could tell they enjoyed working there. They even have a place to have lunch inside the open air green house. We definitely found our go to place for healthy plants, and unique garden accessories and holiday and home décor items. It was sooo nice to stroll through and look at everything.
Susan A.

I’m a construction guy. I stopped by after work. I’m wearing flip flops, Columbia hiking pants, and a safety yellow shirt. I have stopped in to this nursery 5 times this spring I was looking for specific plants each time. I didn’t find them and I don’t know if they had them.
This nursery has a lot of people working there, of which is probably the reason for the higher prices. Out of all those workers not a single one asked me how I was doing or if they could help me find something. I have asked in the past about plants that did not have a care guide on them. The girl working the section made me feel as though I was bothering her. I will be spending my money at nurseries that want my money and enjoy dispersing help and information to customers. Hell even the the big-​box stores say hello.

This place is amazing, I love going here when I have a bit of me time. And when I have family or a girlfriend visiting I always take them here for lunch. The food is well priced and very yummy, the gifts and plants are a bit pricey, but I think they stand behind the products and most green houses charge similar prices. The whole place has a wonderful atmosphere and the only thing I could say was a negative would be that the checkout lines get long and take forever to get checked out at peak times, otherwise its a garden lovers paradise.

A little over priced but huge shopping area and the café served great soup, salad and coffee. Lots of plants, trees and extras for your deck, backyard, front yard and garden. Enjoyed my visit.

Watson’s Greenhouse and Nursery is one of my favorite Christmas decorations stores. The gift and interior decorating portion of their sales place is large enough to have at least 20 trees fully decorated, giving you, the shopper, ideas to incorporate into your own décor. Due to flood damage, we lost most of our holiday decorations. We replaced a good portion of them with one-​stop-​shopping at this great place. The staff members are friendly, cheerful, and knowledgeable. We used to buy our live trees at Watson’s because of their huge selection and exceptional quality but now we only do artificial trees. Watson’s is a bit pricey — think Nordstrom level product lines — but well worth it!

I’ve had mixed feelings on shopping here.
For the most part I love this store: I love the quality of their products, nothing has ever died, and every plant is healthy. The décor, and placement is very accommodating.
The café is so cute, yummy, and the staff is nice, as long as they acknowledge you in a timely manner, instead of chit-​chatting amongst themselves.
I also love, love, loved the live reindeer at Christmas time.
I do however have a problem with how hard it is to get help at this place. I can hardly ever get someone to help me find stuff, and the guys in particular are REALLY bad at just pointing; I hate it when someone just points to where something «should» be.
For the past two months I’ve been looking for Chinese lanterns. A women had me put my name on a list for them to call when they came in, and I still made two more stops checking in on them in the mean time. We finally got a message that they had come in, the message said NOTHING about calling back to tell how many that I wanted them to hold, so when I came in and told the cashier that there should be some on hold for me, she gave me COMPLETE ATTITUDE about how if we didn’t call back to specify how many we wanted, then they wouldn’t hold any for us: Ok that makes since, however, I don’t remember there being a spot on the request form that I filled out asking me how many I’d want, and nothing was stated in the message to call them back to specify how many we wanted, why would you call us, and tell us they were in, and not set at least one aside? I don’t know what the women’s deal was, but there were several ways that she could have gone about this situation, without added stress. 1. You don’t know it all, you don’t know everything, so please look into the situation before you get me worried and upset. Don’t cause UN-​necessary grief, by telling me that because we never called back to tell them how many plants we wanted that they wouldn’t hold any for me, after I’d been through so much to insure that I got one, look into the situation before you open your big mouth. 2. Just check and see if there were any on the floor in the first place! When you couldn’t get a hold of the person in the necessary department, just have someone look for the plant, be a problem solver, don’t cause problems un-​nessisarily.
I love to garden, and I enjoy going to places that have friendly staff, that knows what they are doing, and this place falls a little short in that department.

I really used to love this place…
I actually still do for those hard to find items. And about eight years ago I would have given this place six stars for their customer service alone.
But this year there was truly bizarre. I went in there in the very early spring as I have done every year for the better part of a decade to get a jump on my hanging baskets for this year and I happened to run into Mr. Watson who told me that he was not going to and never did start my baskets in his greenhouses… He told me this in tone that was very off putting. I was slightly offended as over the past years I have spent over two hundred dollars a year in JUST in hanging baskets alone. (a total of 3 baskets a year) paying them for the plants and starting them for me.
«Eh, oh well…»
Watson’s still is an okay place, but my business went elsewhere this year mostly because of my experience earlier this spring. And my baskets turned out as good or better than if I had done them there.

I was recently on a mission to find a very specific tree to plant in my yard. When we were new to the area, we stopped by here to browse and put it in the back of our minds to return when doing landscaping. So, now that we are planting, we returned.
The good: They have a large selection of trees that you can walk through and look at. Almost everything is clearly labeled and priced, making browsing easy. They also have a huge indoor shop with plants and garden décor. Items range from garden gnomes to indoor garden-​themed decorations, so there is something there for almost anyone. From shopping around, I think their prices are fair with other local nurseries, which is always nice.
The not-​so-​good. I had a really hard time getting any help last time. I’m not a natural gardener, so I had some questions I wanted answered, and every time we saw someone, they seemed to melt into the plants. It wasn’t that anyone was unhelpful, just that no one seemed to be around to help.
Oh, and they have really nice bathrooms!

Pretty cool place. Lots and lots of plants and other gift ideas. What wass really cool about this place is, during the Holiday season they have Reindeer on site for the kids, and the kids at heart. Donner and Blitzen are there for everyone to see, and take photos of, and Watson gives free candy canes to all that come.
I did notice that their prices are little steep on a lot of there gift ideas. I mean 70 bucks for a north pole sign, come on they have the same one at Fre Meyers for 20. So that was a small downer but all in all pretty cool place.
I did notice they have a deli or some sort of eatery there. I personally didn’t have anything, but I saw people saving salads and sandwiches.
Oh and they have someone playing Christmas music on the piano, I thought that was a nice touch.