Galloway Farm Nursery Inc. — Attraction in Kendall

I grew up in South Miami so I know of this nursery very well. So on this trip when I came to visit my sister who lives only 3 minutes away at the light of their under past on the same side of the street of the nursery. And my parents who still lives in the area whom I decided to stop by to purchase plants for their home. And when I did find a few plants that I decided to purchase, I went to the area to pay. Keep in that there is only one register with one cashier. This older blonde haired lady look at me with such disdained as she helped another customer. As I stood in the line waiting another young gentleman informed me that I could put my plants in a specific area while I was waited to pay. She looks over her shoulder and goes oh yeah! As she finished helping the other customer she then proceeds to walk away from the register and purchasing area. My you I am standing there in plain view, she comes back in the area and gets a brown bag for tree and walks away again. Never saying a word to me, not even I will be with you in moment or I will be right back. Then I see her go and get a wagon and is having another worker put plants on the cart . After waiting for over 5-7 minutes for her return. I decided that my business was unwanted and left the plants there and walked off right past her and the other employee and said THANK YOU for your service. She look stun and shock by my statement, but she knew my reasoning. And I proceed to my car where I drove off.

I am a African American woman, and I do BELIEVE that this had to do with RACE with her!! I will NEVER say it was about that for company, because I know that my sister and her husband has purchased from them before. I had money spend thereI was not looking anything free! What I do know is that you should put a GOOD representation of your company that greets patrons out front and at your register area. Because people like her can really tarnish you company and brand.

I will never enter your business again, and will be passing the...

BEST nursery in Miami with the BEST staff! I started a butterfly garden 3 years ago, with the help of everyone at Galloway. I wanted to add scented trees, and the Vanilla Almond Bush was recommended to me it grows like a haphazard mess, but smells divine. Evan suggested that I “ turn it into a tree. “ Evan taught me how, and now I have a very cute Almond Bush tree!!!!! I used bungie cords to hold all the wild branches together, and kept cutting off leaves on the bottom and shaped it for about 2 months ( once per week). I get so many compliments on my tree now! So it smells marvelous, and looks amazing! Evan is like a super positive tree / plant whisperer. I wanted to add a Popcorn Tree to my yard, bc it’s a host plant for sulphor butterflies. I don’t have much room, bit Evan encouraged me to do it, and told me I could cut the tree and shape it however I want. It is glorious! It smell like popcorn in my yard now, and it’s always blooming. I also have so many yellow butterflies! It leans on a pole, and is making a canopy with an Avocado tree, at the beginning of my butterfly garden! Evan gave me the courage, guidance, support, encouragement to do most of the artistic things I have done in my garden. Gage, Alex, Manny, Javier have also helped me too, educating me constantly. This nursery has the most terrific plants and...

Feel sorry for those claiming this is the best nursery in Miami. Chances are they haven’t been to many. Most of the plants sold here are invasive species. Even when there’s a native version of the plant, native Porterweed for example, they’ve opted to sell the invasive species instead. Lantana is another example. It was pretty disheartening to see how many invasive species were being sold, with native plants few and far between, and mislabeled or not labelled at all. This was common throughout the nursery. Signs were often not in the right place, if at all. Pricing was very high, even for a retail nursery, especially since many plants didn’t appear healthy. The one plant I was open to purchasing was kind of shoved off to the side at the front of the nursery, no label, no price. I decided not to purchase knowing it would definitely be overpriced and I’d definitely be supporting the sale and cultivation of invasive species. I gave them two stars because they had a nice selection of house plants and those all looked relatively well taken care of. I hope management considers selling less invasives (especially those that hybridize with our natives) and more native plants in order to improve our biodiversity and conservation efforts in...