Chelsea Garden Center

History

Chelsea Garden Center opened for business in 1984 on a rubble-strewn 2,700 square-foot corner of industrial Chelsea with just a garden umbrella, a cash box, a tiny cedar potting shed and a spare lot brimming with plants specially selected for urban and city gardens. Ten years later and in need of more space we moved to a vacant lot on the corner of 9th Avenue and 22nd Street. It was at this location, in 1994, that we created a new, larger garden center with brick paths and hundreds of plants -- all surrounding a massive purple leaf plum tree that soon became our company logo. During our time on 9th Avenue we also opened the Chelsea Garden Store, which allowed us to offer customers a much larger line of furniture, indoor-plants and a comprehensive selection of garden books, fountains and elegant gifts. In the summer of 1999, the burgeoning real estate boom forced us to relocate the nursery to a parking lot on Second Street and the Bowery in Lower Manhattan now we're in Brooklyn, too!

Specialties

Serving urban gardeners for thirty three years, Chelsea Garden Center has earned a reputation for providing only the highest quality plants at reasonable prices. Our experienced buyer's source plants from local growers which mean that our nursery stock is always