Swansons Nursery Review

Incredible selection of plants, staff is very willing and helpful with your queries. Prices are kind of high. Thankfully they took a return on a plant that died within a year's time. But I think their return policy has no time limit anyway. I called when a shrub I bought last April in 2018 started to die and I brought it back in April 2019 and was able to get a store credit. I didn't have my receipt. But thankfully I took a picture of the name tag with the barcode using my smartphone. I was able to show the cashier the photo on my phone so she could look it up and see the exact name and price of the plant. Afterward, I bought another plant with my store credit. I plan to keep shopping here in the future.

Big, big, beautiful place. Stunning cafe. A bit pricey but very cool. 2 medium house plants, 2 smallish pots on sale (30,% off) was $110. So just plan accordingly.

Never bring your credit card here or you will spend your entire life savings

This nursery is AWESOME! I had an issue with a product and they replaced it and dealt with the manufacturer leaving me out of the fight!! Theresa handled my customer service issue deserving an A+ in customer service! Geoff came and picked up the product and delivered the new product so I didn't have to deal with transporting the items. I will continue to purchase at this nursery knowing they truly care about their customers!!

I love it! Beautiful plants and flowers. Fab food in cafe abd love love love the gift shop. Ive been coming to Swanson's for 25+years. Loved it as festivities too! !!

LOVE this place, regularly drive up and pay Seattle prices for the selection and staff!

Very nice natural area. Spring and fall are its best times. Sone homeless drunks or sketchy folks lurking. Dont go solo. Nice paths very interesting. Wirth sering.

Bought Thyme, Oregano, and Basil from this nursery and two week later a fungus has spread to my existing rosemary and sage that I ve had for over a year and never had any problems with. Won t be returning.

Swanson nursery is has really big parking lots and the parking lot is flat to the nursery so its very accessible Barbara D says that even though it hurt when she broke her ankle she was able to easily navigate the nursery and look around for plants and was eager to walk around.

There are roughly 4 sections in the nursery.

Great place kindof out of the way. Off the main road. Nice stuff nice staff . Free parking and lots of plants.

Every kind of plant you could think of is pretty much available in all color and variety. Plants are also arranged well by indoor/outdoor, shade/sun, etc

I love just walking around and taking in all the beauty of the plants.

Wonderful place to grab a fantastic lunch, good coffee, and some gourgeous plants! Things are always being moved around so there is always something new to see!

Always a nice selection of plants and helpful staff. They are also handling the covid situation well and have made it a comfortable environment to shop in.

Great plants, good prices for what you get. Nice healthy plants.

Really nice variety, but bought 3 plants, 2 turned out to be infested with spider mites before i realized what was going on, and died despite trying to treat them. Luckily I caught it before it spread to my other plants. Would go back for specialty outdoor plants. Will not do indoor plants from them again, especially for the price.

Edit - adding a star for the great response from the owner.

Great staff with that stand behind their plants and products. Great indoor selection love the mission to help with Seattle's goal of planting more trees!

My mother s home a way from home. Landscape heaven.

Nice place to look around and great variety, but it's the most expensive nursery around.

It is like a gardening theme park! Excellent selection of anything you would want to our should plant in the PNW. Helpful and knowledgeable staff are abundant and available. The best busiest for any outdoor or indoor need!

Nursery is super nice and pretty, organize and clean. I love all the flowers.

The nursery staff is always top-notch
...ready with up to date information ,honest about what might really grow in conditions you describe and quality plants presented with attractive companion plants. First rate!

Kid and dog friendly nursery with a good cafe. Staff is very knowledgeable; immediately put a name to cuttings from two bushes I needed to identify.

They have everything you want and need, st the best prices! In fact if your local nursery runs out they will have it. My mom comes up from the Portland area in the fall because nothing is left down there. Don't miss their perrenials sale in September. And don't forget to spend your Swansons Dollars; they never expire. This place is so huge, thank goodness for the country cafe serving up the best farm to table style food. I had the best omellete outside of Paris, France there!

My go-to place to buy everything for my garden and houseplants. Beautiful, clean, lots of knowledgable help. Great variety, from exotic and rare to a good year around supply of Pacific NW natives. I drop by about twice a week.

I got great help to find exactly what I needed for a particular place in the garden. A Swanson staff person took me around based on a list I had made online and then added suggestions that would fit the bill -- full sun, drought tolerant once established, no higher than 3 feet, bird attracting. I left with the right plants after only 40 minutes, the last 20 with focused help. I recommend the help part.

Amazing selection and very knowledgeable staff. Left with more plants than I thought I needed!

Super helpful/knowledgeable "Information" people. Nice snack/drink area surrounded by greenery.

There are closer, less expensive nurseries that I could go to, but I have to say, they know their stuff.

Phone and Internet research for a forsythia -- apparently too late in the season to find them at Lowe's or Home Depot -- led me to Swanson's. What a beautiful place! I want to take my wife and just see what all they have.

I had called ahead and learned that they had more than a dozen at half price. When I arrived, the clerk quickly located the person who had spoken with me over the phone. They offered had a nice selection and I obtained a 3-foot forsythia bush for about $15.00. Super! I had been seeing them earlier, smaller ones, in the $40 and $50 range.

Thank you Swanson's for a great experience. We are looking forward to a big splash of yellow in our backyard next spring and to future visits to the nursery.

Marvellous place. Bit spendy but a lot of greatness!

Incredible plants, pots, all beautifully arranged. Looking at everything, not a single person asked if they could or direct me. I accidentally found the one plant I was looking for and approached a staff person who was knowledgeable about the plant bur certainly not friendly. Prices seemed high and I do a lot of plant shopping. Nice to know they have variety and choices but will probably not go back there.

You maxed out my card but the perennial garden was well worth it.

Wonderful seminar series by Alex. Great selection of plants and garden items.

Truly a dying breed: an in-city nursery. Pretty much has it all...wonderful Christmas decorations, bare-root shrubs in winter/spring, veggie starts, helpful staff. Swansons has actually improved over the last few years...so glad the focus remains on the plants.

Wonderful year round nursery. Very helpful staff. Came to get a Christmas tree this year and it was stress free and they let you reserve a tree.

Wow what a great nursery. Has everything from plants, tools, gifts, coffee shop and more. Pretty upscale and pricey to go along with it, but if you can find everything here. Even if you aren t in the mood to buy something it s worth the visit to just walk around and look at everything they have.

Huge nursery with a broad variety of outdoor and indoor plants. A beautiful koy pond as well!

This place is basically the amusement park of nurseries. I've only been here once but went around in awe staring at the huge variety of plants. They also had tomatoes in mid-April - I'm not sure if that's common, but it was great because we wanted to get them in early.

I love swansons! They re super close to home and always have a great selection of houseplants. So happy they re still operating during COVID by appointments and walk ins so I can get my plant fix.

Helpful staff, wide selection, knowledgeable professionals. Plus a cafe with great food, huge koi fish and a little play house outside will entertain the kids. Check the calendar for seminars and kids activities. Sometimes I just take the kids here to play and see the fish!

Awesome service and plant arrangements. Steve did an outstanding impromptu edible plant arrangement for me to give as a gift. Beautiful store to browse and shop in.

This is one of my "happy places." I love going there to get new ideas and find interesting new plants. The staff is very helpful and plentiful, there's always someone around to help you by answering questions and if they don't know the answer, they are quick to find someone who does. My only problem with Swanson's, is that I can hardly ever leave without buying way more than I intended.

Amazing selection and layout. Loved the bakery! Oh, and decent Pokemon stop, too!

Good selection and beautiful property be prepared to pay a little bit more than other places.

Fantastic selection with very helpful and knowledgeable staff. The cafe has good sandwiches and espresso. Great place to spend an afternoon admiring plants.

Wonderful selection, and great service, came in to grab a couple things and ended up spending over an hour here

Beautiful place to wander and enjoy the plantings. Friendly staff

Oh man, I love this place...but I cannot afford to shop here very often! They have EVERYTHING!

Great nursery with very helpful staff and great inventory.

Great Place to relax as a Gardener I love this place

This place is amazing , I love shopping here. RECOMMEND!!

Of course it s a great nursery; look at the reviews! But what I really like about Swansons is it s indoor plant selection. Definitely outshines other popular nurseries in the area. There s also a great selection of cache pots!

It's a bit of a drive from where I'm from but I'd say it's worth it; I usually frequent box stores and the one nursery local to me, but I've been looking for some houseplants that none of them unfortunately had. After spotting an alocasia polly in one of the photos here on google I immediately visited...and left with seven other plants, haha! There's so many plants to choose from and look at (they don't glue their air plants either, bless), and many of them were incredibly healthy too. Will definitely be visiting again.

Great selection of Christmas wares! Lovely Wreaths and trees and amazing selection of ornaments and decor. They also have a winter train display which was huge hit with my 4 year old.

Great nursery. Extra special for the holidays! Santa, train display, photo ops, and real reindeer!

Jammed packed with plants and flower starters, shrubs and trees, etc. It was crazy busy here! This place was so full of flowers and plants, I have never seen it so packed. Now is a great time to get starters and make your garden look nice! Nice gift shop. Cafe was full of people enjoying lunch.

Swanson's has an excellent selection and very helpful staff! I have purchased a number of houseplants, herbs, and vegetable plants here and have never been disappointed. Their appointment system for COVID has been great and you never have to worry about there being too many people there at one time.

I live not a half mile from Swansons and have gone there on and off for the last 15 years. I initially was attracted by their selection especially compared with the mundane offerings of major box stores. I bought a number of plantings for my landscape that I thought were unique and out of the mainstream paying a premium price for them. In the end I was disappointed as their survival rate was rather grim, about 30% and this was with good care. The stuff I bought at Lowe's and Home Depot did far better, I chanced several more purchases at Swansons but it seemed that every time I went there the prices increased. I went last weekend on Fathers Day, the nursery is certainly impressive with all of the greenhouse additions and green house roofs. Displays are beyond gorgeous. I was shopping for some rose bushes.

One in particular I had on my wish list they had but the price was $75.00, for a rose bush, not a money tree. I had priced it online with Heirloom Roses in Oregon $41.00 and free shipping. I have ordered from Heirloom previously and have had great success as their roses are grown from root stock not grafted. Few if any of us have yards with a greenhouse cover, I wonder how well plants raised in an idyllic environment work in our natural settings, wind, rain and cold. Never the less Swanson's is just plain too pricey for this average Joe.

They have everything for gardening super friendly knowledgeable staff.

Excellent products. Wide range of planters and flowers.

I have been coming here for more years than I can remember to count. A beautiful nursery with healthy stock and today I discovered there is an excellent lunch spot inside. The food was really fresh, well prepared and delicious. Give it a try on your next visit.

A nice place to go in and get a pumpkin. A nice control environment to move around and shop. It didn't take very long to look around and get a pumpkin. In fact, we got 4 of them. You can also shop for plants and anything for your yard. Swanson Nursery is a great place to shop.

Nice, clean, nursery with plants stretched over multiple zones/areas. It has a coffee/deli bar that's fair. Their koi pond has several monster sized fish.

Presently they have photo opportunities with Santa and there are 2 reindeer in a pen.

Prices seemed on the high side. However everthing looked well taken care of. So you will be purchasing quality vs. quantity.

Located in north Seattle.

Price so expensive! Same heather same size,Home Depot sell $4.98,Flower World sell$6.98, Sky sell 12.99, Swanson sell 17.99!!! Most of Swanson plants are more expensive than other nursery!

Swansons Nursery is one of the larger nurseries in the Seattle area and has an amazing selection of plant varieties not typically at your big box stores. It is a joy to walk around and the employees are extremely knowledgeable and helpful.

Best local place for indoor and outdoor plants! Staff is super nice and very knowledgeable.

Fun, beautiful gardening experience. The staff is knowledgeable and friendly. They have a wide variety of plants and tools. Plus they are very kid and family friendly. I highly recommend coming to Swanson's over Home Depot or other box stores.

Bought 70 dollars worth of house plants. Customer service was excellent.

Very inspiring select /collection but prices are high.

Very helpful people. Helped us with adding soil to our succulent for free. Also, helped us choose the right soil and answer tons of questions we had on taking care of plants!

It is very spacious and huge nursery. Easy to maintain social distancing :)

I love this nursery. Excellent fruit stock. if you don't live in the area, though, gettign here can be a bit of a trial.

A gardener's paradise. I could wander around Swanson's for hours! Great selection of perennials and annuals. There is always something I need to have!

Lots of house plants and great planters. Open almost 100 years.

Great place. They have great selection from flowers to vegetable and fruit. The staff is very friendly and so far very helpfull when i asked about things. They also have tools and decoration. Last visit, we had a lot of stuff and heavy things and we were helped also in arrange them in the car.

I love Swanson's through all seasons and its FABULOUS collection of plants, flowers, trees, pots, garden items, and home goods, not to mention their lovely indoor cafe and Koi pond.