Merrifield Garden Center

Plant therapy, beautiful, airy. I bought a Japanese fern and it grew well on its own outside.

When it comes to knowledgeable staff and beautiful plants Merrifield can’t be beat! Their prices can be comparable to the «chain» stores on certain items Or they can be higher… it just depends on what you buy.
In today’s economy, we are very fortunate to have such a large nursery in our backyard… many nurseries and landscape companies have failed.

The selection is large and varied. The service is relatively good (lots of people around if you have questions). Appreciate the fact that they also have stone and other landscaping options in addition to flowers, trees, and shrubs.
Would recommend if you are looking for a new nursery.

Merrifield is not a the cheapest place in town but it is a «get what you pay for» value. We have shopped at the nursery multiple times (very cool place) and I just used them for mulch delivery. I ordered the same amount of mulch from another nursery before but Merrifield brought easily 30% more for the same order. I had to ask the driver to take some back and he could have not have been more accommodating. I even got a call from their office giving me a refund for the mulch I returned.
Great ethics and customer service!

This location is huge! Large selection of plants and trees. The staff is knowledgeable. Everything is well-​marked. We bought a skip laurel here a few years ago and we decided to return to get a crape myrtle. The «tree» is just a little thing (more like a bush at this early stage) but it was SO expensive. I know landscaping isn’t cheap — but this place is expensive!

I’ve been here couple times with mom and we both adore this place. It’s full of gorgeous different types of plants with a huge selection of pots as well. The prices are pretty reasonable too. I’ve been living in NOVA for almost a decade now and have yet to see a more impressive nursery than this one. Love it!

GREAT selections of christmas related ornaments but are pricey compared to home goods or walmart. Came to purchase a tree with a budget. Guys in the lot were friendly and helpful, After deciding on what to buy they chopped the bottom and easily fitted the tree into the holder i bought, wrapped a net over it and loaded it into the truck. Free 2016 calendar at the cashier’s area.

Excellent one stop shop. No need to go to other nurseries.

Thank you, Linda Brining, for spending so much time with us yesterday. We really appreciated all the extra time and thought you put into working with us, giving us great suggestions and even going so far as to write out a plan for us. Wonderful ideas and your knowledge is amazing! We’ll keep you posted on how everything looks once it’s all planted. Thank you again — you were a pleasure.

I love this place. Plants are gorgeous and staff is super helpful. I bought sod in January. I know, I was skeptical. That part of my lawn looks so good in July. I have also bought many indoor plants and they look great.

The worst customer services ever. I spend 45 minutes to get some one answer my question. All what I wanted potted vegetable, which should be there specialties. Just to live without any one answers me.
Any one worked there I asked, they had one answer, «we do not answer customer go to the help desk» which no one bother to direct you to. Then when I finally found the help desk– no one was there.-
It is the worst place to conduct business with, because if you are not regular customer, you are in trouble lost in the huge place.

This is my happy place. I love coming here just to wander around. There is SO MUCH STUFF here and all of it is so healthy and well-​taken care of… it’s like going to a botanical garden where you can take the exhibits home.
The staff are all very knowledgeable and friendly. They are absolutely trying to sell you stuff, and you’ll know it, but it’s a store, so, you know, of course they are. They know that people come to their store almost as a recreational activity, so they’ll definitely encourage you to buy whichever huge tree or water garden setup (complete with koi, they sell koi here! I dare you to leave without a koi) they catch you wistfully staring at, but they’re not too pushy about it. They’re plant people, and plant people are nice.
Of special interest to me is their fantastic succulent collection. Succulents are little survivors and a lot of Succulent People take pride in rescuing sad, light-​deprived ones from hardware stores and nursing them back to health, which is good, because it’s pretty rare to see healthy succulents in a store around here. The succulents here, though, are healthy. Buying them feels like cheating. When I was there today some of the echeverias were blooming, and the paddle plants had the nice reddish coloring that they get when they’re getting enough bright light. They also had a variety of inexpensive baby succulents… pick up a tiny $ 0.69 terra cotta pot and you can spruce up your south-​facing windowsills on a budget.
Fellow skittish people: eight or nine trillion bees live here (because, you know, garden center). They are almost all carpenter bees, though, and carpenter bees are friendly unless you are a piece of wood. They’ll get right up in your face to check you out, but they won’t sting you unless you try to punch them or something, and how could you even think of punching such a friendly and curious bee anyway? You are a monster.

I came here looking for bulbs to grow with my preschool class. The gentleman who helped me out gave me the bulbs for free when he heard it was for a preschool experiment. He made a bunch of four-​year-​olds very, very happy! Thank you :)

I’ve been going to Merrifields’ across NOVA my whole life and I have never been disappointed. As an avid gardener and lover of plants I like going to a center with such a large variety to choose from. They have experts in all different areas and even offer classes periodically with different topics such as ‘indoor plants’ or ‘Bonsais’.
This garden center in particular has a ‘plant doctor’ where you can bring in your sick plants or soil and they will analyze it and figure out what is wrong, looking for insects or damage to the plant. very helpful when you’ve been growing a Bonsai for 5 years and it starts to die. They also have a popcorn machine for kids and occasionally have a discount tent set up in the parking lot. I do like the Merrifield in Manassas too they have a restaurant and you can grab some beer!
Even if you’re not in the market to buy anything, its a very peaceful place to walk around for an afternoon!

Way overpriced, but very healthy plants. Prepare to pay premium for everything.
i wish they’d lower their prices –I cringe each time I get the total. I always feel as though I’m being ripped off, but I still hand over the credit card.
i just can’t understand how they can charge $ 65 for an orchid that I can get at TJ’s for $ 15.
One cashier who has been there for years is just rude — i avoid her at all cost.
But the rest of the staff, especially in the garden areas, are really helpful and just nice. if i have a plant problem, i ask someone at the info desk.
The young guys who load your car are always super nice too.
Free popcorn and clean bathrooms are a big plus. Everything is well kept.
Again — it’s the prices in that place that make me give the place only 2 stars. i am always amazed at how willingly folks overpay for plants in that place — including me.

–wonderful, knowledgable horticulturists and nursery experts
–a large but strategically organized business
–beautiful plants and flowers
–large outside water garden section
–they even have a wine shop and a FREE plant diagnostic clinics (for green thumb impaired people like me!)
An additional kudos to the MGC: I brought 51 children here for a field trip. The staff were awesome and handled it so well. They gave a general talk about plants which kept the kids attention (no small feat), then took us on a tour around the entire place. Along the way they would point out certain plants and give interesting facts/​stories. They obviously know their «stuff»!

WOW! Comepletely overwhelmed at this place, their selection of exotic plants is phenomenal but their prices leave a bitter taste in my mouth. Again… I will repeat great selection but I have been to quite a few other local garden centers that though they may not have everything completely in one place the service is quicker and the prices much cheaper.
FYI … Don’t buy a Christmas tree here, go out to the mountains and cut your own… Better experience and adventure. Just not a fan

Merrifield Garden Center used to be my go-​to gardening mecca. They have an unbeatable selection which in the past trumped the crowds, the higher prices, and the blasé high school student cashiers on summer break. Unfortunately after purchasing more than $ 1,000 on landscaping on June 1 and June 2 (in addition to the hundreds of dollars I’ve spent on other purchases over the past three years) Merrifield Garden Center has lost my business.
Merrifield touts its Replacement Policy but when I brought in pics of a single $ 40 clematis that had promptly shrived up and died, the woman at the plant care help desk was clearly put-​off, rude, and condescending. Unfortunately for me, while I have the receipt for the June 1^st purchase, I bought the now deceased plant on June 2 and have misplaced that receipt. I would need the receipt and the dead plant to activate the replacement policy… unless of course Merrifield Garden Center determines the plant died because I didn’t follow watering instructions. I understand Merrifield Garden Center cannot replace plants every time someone walks in with a sad story about dead plants. But, it is painful to think about spending more than $ 1,000 and to be treated so rudely. I’ll be shopping elsewhere when I re-​landscape the rest of the yard in the Spring!

This place is absolutely incredible.
Having just recently built a couple planter boxes and gotten into trying to grow some of my own crops, I picked up supply parts almost exclusively from local markets and home depot. I stopped into Merrifield Garden Center just to pick up an artichoke plant and a watermelon plant.
I was floored.
This place is the size of a small country, which you can see from the photos. They have EVERYTHING you could possibly ask for, and the service is top notch. Within a few moments of walking in and immediately assuming a glazed over expression, two clerks stopped by to see if they could give me a hand and directed me to the correct section. They offered advice and got me exactly what I was looking for.
I will never need to go anywhere else for garden supplies.

DO NOT buy their organic potting soil. Their organic potting soil is contaminated with fungus gnats. Within two weeks of potting new plants there were fungus gnats all over my house and in every plant I used this soil on. I repotted my poor plants twice using this soil each time, and sure enough within a week they came back. So I went to home depot and bought standard miracle grow and guess what? No fungus gnats. (One plant died, the other 4 struggled but are finally making a comeback.)
I am skeptical, because when I went in to tell them about my problem they suggested using a fungicide and pesticide to kill the gnats. How about I just repot with soil that’s not contaminated and avoid pests and chemicals altogether?