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Pre-Order Now for Spring 2025 Pickup: Ageratum Monarch Magic – The Butterfly Magnet Your Garden Needs
Transform your garden into a vibrant, butterfly-filled paradise with Ageratum Monarch Magic, a stunning new introduction for 2025.
We’re Hiring a Plant Stylist Container Designer.
Do you have an eye for design and a love for all things green? Our team at The Gardener’s Center in Darien, CT is growing—and we want YOU to bring your creative touch to our container gardens and plant displays!
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Houseplant Pruning, Up-potting & Fertilizing with Houseplant Guru Joy
Saturday, March 22nd
10:30am to 11:30am
Seminar is FREE — registration required due to limited space
In this seminar, you’ll learn pruning techniques for vining plants, ficus, and dracaena, including propagation tips. We’ll cover up-potting, root pruning, how to choose the right pot size, and spring fertilizing to keep your plants thriving all season!
The Gardener’s Center is your year-round garden center offering a wide selection of unique and sought-after outdoor and indoor plants, designer pottery, organic gardening supplies, container design services, gifts and more. We’re committed to providing exceptional service and horticultural expertise. We are YOUR garden gurus!
Indoor Gardening
Our indoor greenhouse is THE place for plant enthusiasts and new plant parents alike. Find exceptional and hard-to-find houseplants. Questions? Our expert horticulturalists are here to help.
Crystal Rock Shop
Whether you’re collecting for beauty, seeking for their healing and metaphysical properties, or are in search of a unique and meaningful gift, our section of crystals, gemstones and rocks will inspire and delight.
Crystal Quest Activity
Come experience our hands-on, gem-mining sluice where explorers of all ages can enjoy panning for sparkling crystals, dazzling gemstones, fascinating minerals, ancient fossils, and even hidden geodes.
Outdoor Gardening
Find an ever-changing selection of seasonal annuals, perennials, shrubs, herbs and edibles. We offer a huge selection of designer pottery, garden art and statuary and a friendly and knowledgeable staff.
Custom Container Design
Work with our designer for custom-designed containers. We build on-site with expert creativity, care and attention to detail with carefully selected plant material catered to your space and light conditions.
Unique Treasures & Gifts
Whether you’re looking for something fun for yourself or for a gift, you’ll appreciate our unique selection of plant, pollinator and nature-inspired puzzles, DIY kits, books, decor and more.
Catch the Buzz
The Buzz is where you’ll find expert help from our plant and garden gurus.
We’re here to help you with your outdoor and indoor gardening needs. Have questions? Just ask our experts!
Pet-Friendly (and not!) Houseplants
Joy talks about how to keep your pets and your plants living happy and healthy together. Joy shows you which houseplants are pet-friendly and which are not. If you have pets at home, be sure you know which is which!
Wintertime Houseplant Care
During colder months, your houseplants have to live inside and hibernate for the winter just like the rest of us. Joy, our houseplant guru here at The Gardener’s Center, tells us what to watch for and how to care for our plants during this time.
You can also read all about winterime houseplant care in The Buzz Blog.
Houseplants With Fascinating Foliage
Joy, our houseplant guru, wants you to know about some unique plants and special varieties that are giving her all the feels. What’s so special about these? She loves their interesting growing patterns, or the way they react to temperature, light or vibrations. Or they’re just exceptionally cool.
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Identifying and Treating Houseplant Pests
Joy, our houseplant guru here at The Gardener’s Center, has seen her fair share of houseplant pests! She has all the deets on three common little buggers that will wreak havoc either on your plant or your sanity. Read on to see how to identify them and how to treat...
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Guru Sean
Outdoor Gardening Expert
General Manager
Guru Joy
Indoor Gardening Expert
Greenhouse Supervisor
Guru Lauren
Floral & Container Garden Expert
Designer
It isn’t enough to just buy plants and tools and all the stuff it takes to practice the art of gardening. You need somebody to talk to, somebody in touch with the earth. At The Gardener’s Center, you’ll find such people.
We are either trained horticulturalists or are just head-over-roots passionate about what we do. Our mission is to help your gardens grow and flourish.
And if you need more help after you get them home, we’re here to give you that, too. Our goal is simple. We want to make you so good at gardening that it becomes second nature. Then, together, we can let the good times grow.
Hey, plant lover — don’t miss out on the buzz!
Join our hive and get valuable gardening tips, product highlights, new arrivals, workshop announcements and more. We promise you’ll love what we have to share.
Pre-ordering open through Sunday, November 10!
Our lush, large poinsettia collection offers a range of classic-to-contemporary colors that compliment your holiday decorating style!
These arrive fully grown — an impressive 22 inches tall and wide — for instant holiday cheer! They also make lovely gifts for your holiday gatherings, whether for guests or hosts.
50% OFF CHRISTMAS
The Gardener’s Center is your holiday headquarters, offering a beautiful selection of fresh-cut Christmas trees, evergreens, wreaths and garland! Not to mention our unique holiday décor and gifts for just about everyone.
Looking for a stocking stuffer they’ll love? Our gift cards are treasured by everyone from plant lovers to crystal collectors and everyone in between.
When you want gorgeous holiday entryways, we have options…
Sometimes, we need a little expert touch to help turn so-so into something really special. Look no further than our container design guru, Lauren!
Check out these gorgeous examples, then set up a consultation so you, too, can have looks like these gracing your walkways, entryways and window boxes!
Our Pre-built Holiday Drop-ins
Our convenient, beautifully-arranged paper mache containers of lush, fresh-cut evergreens and holiday trimmings drop right into your existing porch, patio and landscape containers. It’s instant holiday decor and curb appeal! And they’ll continue to look great well after the holidays, too.
Our Custom-Designed Container Services
Looking to make a bigger statement with your entryway? Book your custom container design with Lauren and she’ll create stunning, show-stopper looks for your holiday home.
Houseplant Happy Hour
Saturday, January 11
5:00-6:30 PM
This event is FREE but registration is required to secure your space.
Hey houseplant lover — you don’t want to miss this fun evening here at The Gardener’s Center! Bring a friend and meet new ones for a little schmoozing, a little plant education, a little noshing and some sipping. And bonus — you’ll be the first to see and shop our newest and biggest houseplant drop for 2025! We’ll have many new and unique indoor plants as well as fresh, familiar varieties.
