Review: Westmoreland County Nurseries

Today's haul (containers with hydrangeas) courtesy of Greensburg Home Depot. Sorry, local garden centers, you didn't cut the mustard!

Today I stopped out to some Westmoreland Co. garden centers and nurseries, and by the time I made my last stop at Home Depot I was never so happy to see a big box store. Kind of a waste of gas and overall disappointing. Some of these places are run down and half-overrun with weeds. It's like they don't even have a person to go around and tidy up. What gives???

Here's my summary of where I stopped:

1. Plumline Nursery (Allegheny/Westmoreland border) - 3.5/5 Stars. For 2016, this garden center and nursery was largely renovated with added parking, a new inventory layout and an entirely new checkout shanty. Their annuals were 75% off for Fourth of July week, which is a pretty good sale. Still above average prices on everything else.

2. Camp Joann Nursery (Apollo) - 2.5/5 Stars. Small selection. Somewhat expensive for product sizes. They were running a number of sales on various products, which is appropriate for this time of year.

3. Stallard Garden Center (Mamont) - 1/5 Stars. Didn't even turn in, it looked run-down from the road and I saw no selection. Old shells of hoop greenhouses could be seen in adjacent field. What gives???

4. Sieg Nature Gardens (Export) - 2/5 Stars. Nice little lot, but small selection and high prices. Sale prices on annuals didn't really make anything worth buying.

5. Country Farms (Greensburg) - 4/5 Stars. Always fairly well stocked and the staff is plentiful and helpful. Their interior retail area has an interesting old wood floor. Charming.

6. Greensburg Landscape Center - 1/5 Stars. They brag about 10,000 plants in stock, but only a few hundred generic varieties could be seen in their "nursery" area. No employees to be seen anywhere.

7. Heasley Brothers' Nursery - Google sent me to a residential address in Greensburg. Somebody needs to fix this!!!

8. Garden Envy - Yelp says this is a garden center but apparently it's a wedding planning service. Nothing but a grassy field at Google's "location".

9. Greensburg Garden Center - not a garden center, it's an events hall!!!

10. Wolfe Nursery (Hempfield) - 2.5/5 Stars. Another disheveled place, no sign to get into the "parking lot" - weeds everywhere. Nursery stock was half the quality of what it was last year. Completely unappealing!

11. King Garden Palace & Nursery - closed since 2008. I don't get what the point is in having places listed online that no longer exist. No idea.