About Country Garden Nursery
Who We Are
Country Garden Nursery was started by owners Joe and Melissa McLaughlin in 1991. Initially selling retail plants and providing garden design, the focus for the past several years has been exclusively baskets. We enjoy a very loyal customer base of homeowners, businesses, cities, shopping centers, and Business Improvement Districts, mostly throughout the West Coast. We enjoy developing and maintaining relationships with customers that use our baskets as a renewable part of their landscape. Each basket is custom planted to address each client’s needs for size, sun or shade exposure, climate, color and time of delivery. We keep planting records for each account and encourage feedback on plant performance so that we can continually tailor the basket mix for maximum display.
Custom Grown Hanging Baskets
We plant your baskets primarily with Premium Annuals. This is a class of high-performing vegetatively propagated annuals, some of which are sold under the retail name Proven Winners. Examples include trailing Petunias (“Supertunias”, “Wave” Petunias), Calibrachoa (“Million Bells”), Bidens, Bacopa, Verbena, Osteospermum, Swan River Daisy, Creeping Charlie and Ivy Geraniums. These plants perform by blooming intensely over the whole season, and require less dead-heading. We plant them in the sides and rim of the basket. Seed-grown annuals; such as Marigold, Salvia and Geraniums, would be used in smaller quantities, located in the top of the basket for height and variety. Baskets can be planted for a variety of sun exposures, climates and conditions, and in an assortment of colors at no additional cost.
We grow the baskets for 6-8 weeks before delivery time. This ensures they are well rooted, full of healthy greenery and beginning to bloom the day you get them. With three decades of experience, many of our original customers are still with us. That loyalty is our benchmark for quality, and we strive to earn our customer’s repeat business every season.
Meet The Team
Our planting crew goes through extensive training in propagation, plant cultivation, color theory and plant ID at the beginning of every season. All departments receive training in IPM practices and TQM procedures.
Part of what sets us apart as a nursy is the care and customization we provide for each and every hanging basket. Our floral designers take the time to get to know you and your surroundings to produce exquisite arrangements that will thrive year-round. We keep record of your hanging baskets so we can easily make adjustments to your wishes.
Melissa McLaughlin
Owner and Design Director
Joe McLaughlin
Owner in charge of infrastructure and plant health
Joe also operates JM Landscape Maintenance Co.
Ruth Estrada
Production Manager and Employee Training and Development
Ruth worked many years at Monrovia Growers and Terra Nova Nursery, and she brings a wealth of industry experience. She has been at Country Garden since 2012.
Maria Gomez
Lead Production Crew
Maria has worked in the production and development of our baskets since 2005.
Marigel Briones
Lead Greenhouse Technician
Marigel cares for our entire green inventory from ½” plugs to 100# baskets. She has been with us since 2009.
Let’s Design Your Hanging Basket Florals
Contact Country Garden Nursery today to place your order for custom hanging basket florals to adorn your home or business!