Gardening nurseries are some of the best places to find gardening seeds, seedlings, mature plants and also wonderful places to seek advice about any type of gardening problem that might be encountered. Sometimes gardening nurseries can be expensive, especially when compared to gardening catalogues where there can be some wonderful sales and offers on various gardening supplies. However, gardening nurseries usually provide that personal touch that is needed when seeking out just the perfect plants for a garden. In addition, they will usually guarantee the more expensive plants up to a certain length of time because they are experts in the gardening field.

Seeds or Plants

Talking to a professional in a gardening nursery can help a gardener to decide whether starting seeds or choosing mature plants are the best option according to what he wants to do in his garden. Gardening nurseries usually supply seeds, seedlings and mature plants, so the options are usually wide open. One part of a gardening nursery is usually a greenhouse where the seeds can be started in a much protected environment so that they can gain strength and be planted as seedlings with more assurance of success, especially for beginning gardeners.

Gardening nurseries also provide exotic types of plants that have to be grown in a greenhouse environment. Some gardening nurseries specialize in one particular area of gardening, such as only vegetables and fruits, or only rose bushes, but most nurseries sell a more varied supply of plants and seeds. The workers in the nurseries can usually advise the gardeners what types of plants work the best together, which ones are annuals or perennials, when certain types of flowers bloom, and what fruits and vegetables grow best in that particular climate.

In addition to plants and seeds, gardening nurseries also usually sell some of the other supplies needed to keep the plants and seeds healthy such as mulch, fertilizer and pesticides. Nursery workers can usually give great advice on what types of these different products work best depending on the problem being encountered. In addition, there are organic gardening nurseries that specialize in all natural growing techniques and products so that no foreign chemicals are used either in the mulches or pesticides, or in growing the plants or producing the seeds that they sell in the store. Organic gardening nurseries can also advise gardeners on how to start their own compost piles and convert their gardening style to organic.