Buttonwillow Nursery

If you need to do some landscaping, this is where you need to go. Me at a nursery is like a white guy in a dance club: just look at me for 5 seconds and you know I’ve got no business there. I don’t know jack about plants and instead of a green thumb I have a black thumb of botanical death. But just like Kevin James was able to overcome his ethnic limitations in Hitch with the help of Will Smith, I was able to turn my backyard into a tropical paradise.
Katrina was my Hitch. I imagine she’s the one they send in for the nearly hopeless cases. I told her what I wanted, having no clue beyond «lots of colorful tropical stuff» and she spent hours taking me around the nursery showing me a myriad of options and telling me what could go where based on sunlight, size, etc. She was like the Google of plants. She just knows everything off the top of her head. She knows more about plants than I will ever know about anything.
The great thing about our tour of the nursery is that it didn’t take a lot of walking. I’m no heifer plopped in a rascal before my time, but I don’t need to warm up for yard work by walking a marathon. The nursery is very modest in size, but they have a huge variety of plants – much more than their competitors. I’ve always been impressed by how many people Mexicans can pack into a small car, but Buttonwillow Nursery takes the concept of spatial efficiency to a whole new level.
And all the other gals, ladies, women, girls, or whatever the politically correct term is for a female these days, are just wonderful. They all have great senses of humor and are the best cheerleaders. I went home so pumped up and believing I could do it.
And by some miracle, I actually did. Unlike previous attempts to spruce up my old yard, which ended in dead plants, tons of wasted money, and a yard that still looked as grotesque as a chimpanzee’s butt, my yard now looks incredible. It went from dirt to tropical resort in a matter of weeks. My family actually enjoys being outside now, and thanks to Buttonwillow Nursery’s prices, I was able to do it without selling any organs, which I can’t say for other nurseries or stores with garden departments. And the best part is, the plants are actually lasting. In the past my yard was a massive plant genocide that only a few strong would survive. This time I put hundreds of plants in the ground and I’ve lost 3.
Just in case I’ve been too subtle, what I’m getting at is that Buttonwillow Nursery is amazing. They have great selection, great prices, and a staff that makes shopping for plants a delight.