About Gateway Garden Center
Gateway Garden Center is a family-run business located in Hockessin, providing the community with a wide range of plants for over 30 years. The dedicated and friendly staff are knowledgeable and always ready to assist with any questions or needs. This garden center features a fabulous selection of plants, trees, water plants, and birdbaths, creating a beautiful and welcoming atmosphere. Customers appreciate the healthy plants, decent prices, and the extreme helpfulness of the staff, making it an excellent resource for gardening needs. With a focus on native plants that attract important pollinators, Gateway Garden Center stands out from larger box stores. It offers a more personalized experience and a wider variety of plants, ensuring that visitors always discover new wonders in their shopping experience.
Gateway Garden Center has very friendly staff and a good selection of North American native plants! They also sell supplies such as soil, compost, and organic pest control. Plants are well-labeled with their height, soil and sunlight requirements, and other info such as native status.
The best part was that the plants looked healthy and well taken care of. (The only ones that looked less healthy were in the discount section, and most of those were spring ephemerals that wither in the summer anyway--no fault of the staff!)
They had a 4th of July sale going on when I went, so keep that in mind if you go in the future. :)
Prices are a little high, but they have an excellent selection af annuals, perennials, shrubs, and veggies, all arranged attractively and logically. They often have uncommon, interesting varieties.
The staff is very personable & willing to help. Unlike other many retail employees, they know a lot about the products on offer, and if they don't, they they will try to find someone who does!
I LOVE Gateway Garden Center! ?I travel from southern NJ to shop here. Gateway has a FABULOUS selection of plants, trees, water plants, birdbaths, etc. ALSO-the people who work there are extremely helpful. It’s a beautiful place?. I recently purchased 6 waterlilies-a few hardy, a few tropical. One hardy was a newer developed hardy waterlily that is purple. It is GORGOUS, big and prolific.
GATEWAY is an excellent place to buy native plants that will draw all kinds of IMPORTANT pollinators to your garden, your world???.
I LOVE shopping here. I never know what new wonders I will find@Gateway Garden Center!