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| 1. How It Works 2. Welcome to Evergreen Nursery |
How It Works Why wait in long slow lines when you could be at home planning your next landscaping or gardening project. Just follow the Evergreen 3 step system:
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| Welcome to Evergreen Nursery If your shopping excursions in search of nursery and garden supplies are focused primarily on your nearest big box retailer or discount house, you’re missing out on the experience to discover the full range of possibilities to develop your landscape or garden to its fullest potential. Evergreen Nursery isn’t your every day, garden-variety nursery center, where you might have a half-acre or outdoor extension of a big-box store (Con't from page 1) displaying their collection of gardening supplies that were trucked in from other regions. At Evergreen, San Diego’s largest wholesale nursery open to the public, you have up to 80 acres of actual growing grounds to peruse, your car is your shopping cart, and you’ll shop amid professional as well as hobbyist landscapers and gardeners seeking the perfect plants and flowers for their projects. With four stores located throughout San Diego County, each ranging from 20 to 80 acres, Evergreen will inspire every gardener—and aspiring gardener—to explore a multitude of options as well as branch out and try new ideas that are limited only by your imagination. Drive in, find your desired plant category using the nursery’s easy shopping map, pull over and wander on foot to choose from hundreds of plants available in each variety, from young plantings to more mature versions. You’ll find soil enhancement products, sod, groundcover, shrubs, vines, and trees as well as a full line of soil and landscape materials sold in consumer-sized bags or in bulk. Nursery staff roam the grounds to answer customer questions and lend technical support. When you’re finished shopping, drive up to the cashier at the checkout booth, and you’ll be on your way. The nursery also offers a delivery service for all plant and soil products if what you pick out is too much for your car! At Evergreen, the plants you see have been grown and raised on site, assuring you that it will acclimate just as readily and thrive in your landscape as well as it has at the nursery. While the nursery specializes in palm trees, it also features a broad spectrum of trees, landscape plants and shrubs along with ground cover and beautiful blooming flowers that thrive in sunny Southern California. “If it works for Southern California and the Southwest, we’ve got it, and you can see more varieties of items here than anywhere else,” says Evergreen Nursery owner Mark Collins, a lifetime resident of San Diego County who grew up in the nursery business working for his father, who founded what would become California’s largest nursery chain, Nurseryland. Collins opened his first store in the Del Mar/Carmel Valley area in 1976, followed by a Spring Valley store in the mid-1980s, and stores in Oceanside and Rancho Bernardo opened in 2002. He also established two growing grounds, in North Escondido and the San Pasqual Valley, to accommodate a thriving export operation to Japan, Spain, Canada, Chile, Mexico and the Caribbean. Beyond the vast expanse of selection available, Evergreen customers will also notice significant savings in product pricing, thanks to the nursery’s on-site growing and selling grounds, which removes the middlemen and handling services that drive prices up. “We sell the same products as other nursery retailers but for half as much money because we grow it where we sell it,” Collins says simply. “When a regular nursery or discount house has a plant for sale, that plant has a number of ‘touches’ for the number of times it has been handled, from growing it to loading it, shipping it, then selling it. Every ‘touch’ costs money. By cutting down on those ‘touches’ as well as deliveries to stores, we can sell our products for a better price.” Evergreen’s pricing system is also designed for ease of use. Plants are priced by container size, with color-coded signs that correspond to price points shown on a map given out when entering the nursery. While driving through the nursery, look for the color coding to find your price range. A detailed list of specific Evergreen products and their prices are also available on the nursery’s Web site at www.evergreennursery.com. Customers can return the black plastic plant containers and receive shopping credits from Evergreen’s active recycling program. When you visit the nursery, you’re sure to shop longer than you think you will, so don’t forget to bring your wide-brimmed garden hat and plenty of room in your car for your selections! Kids and dogs welcome too! |
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