Kiefer Landscaping & Nursery

I like their selection and everyone there was very helpful. They have some lovely landscaping to get you inspired too.

Excellent selection and knowledgable gardeners make this the only place I go for plants!

Mmm… not really satisfied with their service. I had to call them so many times to be served even I made an appointment before. I gave them my design and told them how I want my garden is. They were very hard-​working and tried their best to finish what I desired. However, It’s not as my expectation. Staff should get more experience in lanscaping services.

My wife and I visited this nursery last weekend and it was great. Its been open for 25 years and in the 8 years we’ve been here, haven’t found it yet but we are so glad we did.
Family owned and operated. Owners took the time, showed us their beautiful grounds and helped us pick out a tree. Very friendly staff. Great prices too. Looking forward to our new tree being delivered and planted next week.

This is a review for the retail nursery. Can’t say enough good things! We are flipping a historic house and starting from scratch with the landscaping (well, after we rip out all of the invasive plants that have taken over). Kiefer is definitely the best readily available nursery in the Triangle. Plant Delights is wonderful but inaccessible to simply browse and brainstorm. Kiefer’s selection and quality of the plants is excellent. And unlike the big boxes, you can be guaranteed they won’t sell you something that is overly invasive or not hardy enough for our region.
The folks at Kiefer are very knowledgeable and will come up to you to assist if they are not already working with a customer. Mark Kiefer is typically onsite and is beyond knowledgeable and helpful. He’s even helped with identifying existing plants on my lot from a poorly taken cell phone shot.
If looking for something specific, be sure to ask! They have a lot of plants in a back area of the nursery that is off limits. This especially applies to trees and large/​rare shrubs. As for trees… their delivery rates are pretty reasonable too if you’re buying something too large for your car.

As a nursery, I give two green thumbs up. We do not use their landscaping service; my wife and I are our own landscaping service.
We wanted to establish a few new plant beds this year with shrubs and perennials. We spent a lot of time with Phillip walking through the nursery to select plants that fit with the available sunlight, growth pattern, screening, coverage, etc. He offered great advice and knowledge and showed us many options. He also educated us on preparing the soil. They sell a soil amendment that you can mix in when planting to help with the icky clay. The amendment is reasonable, but do ask for the big bags if you’re doing a lot. The first time we bought several smaller bags before realizing they sold it in bigger quantities, too.
Everything here is in great condition and they have a lot more interesting things offered versus what you’ll see at big box retailers. Some items are available in both places, but the plants here definitely look healthier. You will pay a little more, but the plants look great from day one. Also, it is worth paying a few extra dollars for the expertise and advice to make sure you plant and care for everything correctly.
The checkout process was a little slow, but we also bought a lot of things. Just plan to spend some good time here. The place is beautiful; be sure to walk around and see everything. Hours open to the public are restricted to Thursday through Saturday, and even that is very seasonal.

This is really Durham’s premier source for landscape trees. They have an unparalleled selection of Japanese maples. It is really worth a trip out with the family to walk through the greenhouses. I have also seen some of the pondscapes they have installed and all I can say is, «wow!». The are located on hwy 55 and if your not looking for them you will miss them.

We’ve been in our house for 25 yrs and have gone through numerous landscape adjustments with various landscape architects. We saw some superior work that Mark Kiefer had done for a neighbor and we were impressed, so we hired him. Now, 2 yrs later we couldn’t be happier with the results. Mark is an artist who we highly recommend. The price was a little high, but we had work done in Cary so it was understandable. Mark also had a superior stone mason who installed a new flagstone front walk. Wow, it all looks so great! Ask Mark for references and drive by — you’ll be impressed.

It’s hard to know what to say about this. It’s unusual to have an experience where I could either give a 1 star or a 5 star, but this is how I feel about Kiefer Landscaping.
On the plus side, I got really great trees, nicely planted, at a reasonable price. The crew that planted the trees cleaned up after themselves and were very polite. The trees are healthy and I was really happy with that aspect of it.
The office staff, on the other hand, was just really difficult to work with. When you go there in the offseason, you can only work with them by appointment. Which would be totally fine, if they would show up for the appointment. Or if they would actually check their voicemail and return calls. After giving them $ 750, I had to continually chase them for weeks in order to get them to schedule the planting. They wouldn’t return my calls — even when I would speak with someone, they would tell me that the scheduler would call back and it just seemed like that didn’t happen.
So…if you can stand the poor service and you don’t mind calling them repeatedly and waiting for weeks, you can get some really nice trees. I don’t think I will go there again unless I really need to (if they have something that no other landscaping company has.)
Also, their prices for trees/​planting seemed fair, but I would definitely not recommend buying small plants there. They showed me some plants that were small and scrappy for $ 25 that you could get for $ 10 at the farmers market.

This hidden gem in Southwest Durham needs a major shout out. I’ve driven by it many times since I live nearby, always wanting to stop, but hadn’t. It looks kind of small when you drive by… little did I know…
We decided to get in the swing of the season and stopped by today for their «Fruity Fall Festival» which was actually a fundraiser for SEEDS (South Eastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces) a non-​profit garden program in Durham. Nice! I was very surprised to find how big this place is. It actually sits on 12 acres of land that goes way back.
At the festival we attended some excellent «How To» gardening workshops that were free and very helpful. The employees are super friendly, not pushy at all, and answered all our questions. They also had some excellent sale prices. Included for the festival was a number of local artisans offering their wares, kids activities, a wine & cider tasting, Locopops, and even a hot dog cart. We left two hours later having had a fantastic time! I may even go back tomorrow for the last day of the festival!
Price wise I think they are competitive with other garden centers. Japanese Maples are an expensive tree, but their prices were in line with other centers that carry them. They do have some very unique trees, like Sequoia redwoods, but in general much is similar to what you’d find elsewhere just super super healthy.
They had some nice water fountains and a large pond in particular with many very large koi that you can feed. It’s so laid back there you just want to hang out, browse and feed the fish. It’s almost like being at a park. Suffice to say, I liked what I saw and will definitely be going back, especially for some of their upcoming workshops!