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Here are San Francisco’s top five Nurseries! Experience the best in local artistry, showcasing exceptional skill, creativity, and innovation that make them stand out. Let’s explore the Finest Nursery excellence San Francisco has to offer.
Curated Plants for Your Garden
Landscape designer, contractor and nursery owner Elliot Goliger knows what looks and grows best in your Bay Area garden. Choose from our unique selection of plants to enhance your outdoor living.
Unique Indoor Plants
We carry a selection of unique and beautiful indoor plants to enhance your living and working spaces. Visit our beautiful greenhouse and grab an espresso at our espresso bar!
Landscaping
Our sister company, Artisans Landscape offers full-service landscape design and contracting in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit our site to see photos of our work.
Hot Tub Installation
Artisans Landscape is the Bay Area’s premiere wood hot tub and deck installers. Check out our portfolio of local hot tub installations.
2. SF Plants
SF Plants – “Our core value is to take pride in meeting customer expectations with custom tailored design”.
Bella Fiora A Floral Design Studio was established nearly two decades ago rooted in the love Dino and Mark share for flowers and floral design. They are the key forces that drives Bella Fiora‘s success. Our love for green space came together with the addition of SF Plants.
Dino a San Francisco native who is “ The Visionary” behind the designs. Dino loves to unwind after his day at the studio using his creativity to cook up something spectacularly delicious in the kitchen.
Mark arrived from Cork, Ireland and found his love for San Francisco in the 00’s. Although he is guilty of being a workaholic, during his free time he enjoys morning brunch and hikes along the coast.
“During our free time, we enjoy catching the rays in Hawaii, our home away from home”.
Both Mark and Dino’s passion for their craft makes them a perfect match both in business and their personal life.
Sloat Garden Center is a premier garden center in Northern California. We offer a wide selection of fresh plants, high-quality garden tools, soils, pottery and garden expertise by our knowledgeable nursery professionals. We’ll help you grow the plants you love!
It all started in the Sunset six decades ago.
It was 1958 when G.E.T. Department store opened up a neighborhood plant nursery at the corner of 45th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. In 1968 the small store moved to a larger location (G.E.T’s former tire shop and gas station), just down the block, and the name changed to Sloat Garden Center. In 2000 we moved to our current, and much larger, location between 45th & 46th Avenues. Over the following five decades, 12 more stores were added in San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, and Contra Costa counties. Sloat Garden Center has grown to become the Bay Area’s largest independent, locally owned garden center.
Sloat Garden Center started in 1958 in the Sunset district of San Francisco.
Dave Geller, the original owner, ran the business out of an old building at the corner of 45th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard. Geller wasn’t sure what to do with his building, so he thought he’d try a plant nursery.
He turned the garage into a sales area and the backyard into a garden center (at the time the property was shared with a gas station). Sloat Garden Center soon became a discount nursery under the umbrella of San Francisco’s discount department store, GET, in which Geller was a tenant.
In 1962, current owner Dave Straus (pictured at right) came to work at Sloat as a 14-year old kid, unloading 40-pound bags of manure for a Washington’s Birthday sale. He was soon loading cars, unloading trucks, sweeping, cleaning, watering, working in customer service and eventually he became a manager. By the time Straus was 21, he was traveling to southeast Asia and making pottery connections for a local import company. When he was 23 he returned to Sloat to work full time…. and he never left.
In 1968 Dave Straus became a partner.
Over time he took over from Dave Geller as owner. Additional locations began opening in 1973. In 1985, Ted Warshauer joined the leadership team as Vice President and partial owner.
In 1993, Straus made the decision to focus on the highest quality plant materials and garden products. “What we sell enables us to offer a guarantee of satisfaction that is second to none,” explains Dave Straus. “And we have never waivered from that decision.”
Sloat Garden Center has become the largest independent pottery importer in the U.S., with strong ties to many other independent garden chains that purchase their pottery through Sloat. Looking back on almost five decades in the garden center business, Dave reflects. “Obviously I love plants and gardening, but over the years, the pottery part is what I’ve enjoyed the most,” he explains. “It gave me the opportunity to travel, design product, pick new glaze colors and work with many different factories in many different countries. Bringing this beautiful pottery to our customers is a joy in itself.”
Floorcraft Home Improvement Center acquired a vacant carwash directly across the street from our current facility in San Francisco, CA. It was a dream of the owners to create an oasis of plants and trees in the “industrial district.” Thus, Floorcraft Garden Center was born. More than 50 years later (including a slight name change), Flowercraft continues to flourish, meeting the needs of a faithful customer base as well as the trades, while gaining new fans with a lush selection of quality plants and earth-friendly gardening products. We carry succulent plants for pots in your home, Japanese Maples to grace your garden, and even Christmas trees.
At Flowercraft
we feature a great selection of annuals, perennials, soil amendments, fertilizers, pottery, statuary, and much more. From the ordinary to the extraordinary,
We have it all!
5. Flora Grubb
Flora Grubb is a self-taught gardener. After 20 years of Texas gardening, she moved to San Francisco in 1999, eager to delve into a horticultural wonderland. Soon she found herself starting a small landscaping company, which is how she met her business partner, Saul Nadler.
Flora helped Saul and his wife, Susie Nadler, to create a beautiful garden at their San Francisco home. The collaboration was so fruitful and fun that Saul and Flora decided to open a neighborhood nursery together. A classically trained chef who studied Russian history as an undergraduate at Brown, Saul had many varied interests; he knew he wanted to open a business, but hadn’t landed on the right idea. Flora’s lifelong dream of a design-focused garden center fit the bill.
They formed Grubb & Nadler, Inc., and bought the Palm Broker, a small nursery on Guerrero Street in the Mission District. After a winter’s worth of hard labor cleaning up the site and creating displays of plants and pottery, they opened their nursery on a lucky rainy day in April 2003. It didn’t take long for the nursery to become a destination for San Francisco gardeners and plant-lovers. Neighbors grew to cherish the nursery as a semi-public garden in their dense neighborhood of Victorians set amidst rushing traffic.
Flora Grubb Gardens we believe that gardening makes people happy, brings peace into their lives, and offers a powerful antidote to the stresses of modern life. We believe in creating lavishly beautiful gardens with climate-appropriate plants that require minimal water and chemicals to maintain.
Our goal is to help our customers become successful gardeners. For novices, we offer expert guidance in navigating a well-curated selection of plants that excludes water-hogging options. For more experienced gardeners, we carry an unrivaled collection of rare and unusual drought-tolerant plants, along with all the necessary building blocks to create their dream gardens.
We strive to use an exquisitely designed environment to inspire our customers and draw visitors from all over the world. Our staff of knowledgeable plant fanatics and experienced landscape designers provides excellent service in a fun, welcoming atmosphere.