SummerWinds Nursery – West Bell

The staff was very helpful and the manager went out of her way to answer my questions. They also have very good prices.

I am done with Lowes and Home Depot plants and flowers after shopping here. We worked with the manager who was very soft spoken but VERY helpful in proper plant selection. I now have the prettiest and healthiest flowers in the neighborhood.

Staff are very helpful. Lots of stuff to choose from. We like this place. We normally come here every spring and fall.

Best place to get all your gardening needs! They also have what the Garden Guys recommends to buy!

Two years back I needed to replace my dead ocotillo so I purchased a new ocotillo from Summerwinds that never came to life and was dead. I saved my receipt and Summerwinds said I could have a new ocotillo. All these ocotillos where behind the wall behind the nursery and they all looked dead (it looked like a trash area for dead and sick plants) but the salesman assured me that they were alive. My second one from Summerwinds never came to life as well. Yesterday I went back to Summerwinds to possibly get my third or second replacement from Summerwinds but again all the ocotillos where behind the wall I guess waiting for Jesus to revive them. I did look at a few other nursery’s and the hippy boy at the nursery near 17 at least was honest and said he didn’t know if his ocotillos were alive or dead none had signs of life. The ocotillos at one of the moon valley locations were the same and half priced.
I didn’t give Summerwinds one star for the ocotillo experience although they deserve it. Most plants they sell are nice and I would shop here for a lantana or something like that. The three stars is more than fair.
It seems like you most likely will get STUCK with a dead ocotillo unless you give someone a B.J. at most nurseries around here.

Summerwinds is always a great nursery to go to! The staff is helpful and patient with all questions I can come up with. They have an excellent variety of cacti and other plants.

Just got into gardening last year and summer Winds is right up the street for me. I like that they have a good selection of healthy transplants available for the veggie garden. I have even been able to find many heirloom varieties! the girl in charge of the veggie area didn’t seem to know the answer to a lot of our questions, but was very friendly and helpful with what she did know (to be fair, we do ask some more difficult ones)
We have also been able to pick up lady bugs, and praying mantis for natural pest control. It was alot of fun seeing the baby mantis growing up in our garden this year!
Prices seem good to me. A little higher than a big box store, but I am willing to pay a little extra for local shops

Great prices on all the 6 pack veggies! Always nice plants and friendly people.

For goodness sake, people, this is an urban nursery in a commercial area on Bell Rd. It isn’t out in the middle of nowhere with acres and acres to offer that sort of selection.
For what it is — a nice, clean, modest sized nursery with helpful staff– this place is great. Sure they may not have many exotic items, but for all of the basics and more it is hard to beat the convenience of shopping here.
The staff knows their stuff, unlike most employees who I run into in the gardening part of Home Depot.

What’s more fun in spring at Summerhills perusing the aisles of herbs, flowers and veggies? Or watching for the variety of Snowbirds who flutter in to find the perfect tomato plant? I am thinking Sun City is void of any nursery because everybody’s grandma was getting her green on at Summerhills. Still lots of fun no matter who is there, I just wish they had on this occasion more variety of veggies, celebrity and (yawn) better boy tomatoes just don’t get the old blood pumping like a Cherokee purple or zebra stripe.
This is a great place to pick up basics for the garden, they have good advice and helpful customer service, they even brought my plants out the car for me. But as far as anything that make me excited and intrigued this didn’t get me really in the mood garden– wise.
Prices aren’t cheap so be ready to fork over the big bucks.

Not a place for a novice?
I went to summerwinds nursery today, and I am sorry (really sorry) to say that I was not very impressed. I was expecting bigger, better, more. But I do that sometimes; it is like preparing to go see a movie. I build it up in my head to be so great that it just does not stand a chance in real life.
Not too bad though. Most of the plants were healthy. Prices were average. I could not find the plant I was looking for, so selection… IDK, I guess it could have been better for a nursery. I did leave with 2 bags of premium soil (fish/​seaweed/​non-​slug soil!) so that was cool.
I was hoping that they would have had the store conveniently laid-​out & sectioned into xeriscape/​water maintenance needs. But it did not seem that way — though some of the plants had tags with their needs on them and there were some helpful signs. I found myself confused and picking through cacti that were mixed with and seated along side water loving plants. I would have loved to walk into a xeriscape section and start picking out plants; instead, I had to pick through ALL of the plants one-​by-​one and read the tags (and not all had tags) to find the types I was looking for. I guess it is really not a place for a novice.
They weren’t very busy today. After being there for about 30 minutes, someone finally asked me (when I was leaving) if I needed assistance. She was sort of helpful. I need to landscape the pool area and start a veggie garden. I asked if someone could assist me in picking out the proper plants (ya know which are best for the pool area and the light/​water it gets) and tell me a little about their growing habits, needs and etc. She said someone there — might — be able to help me with that. Really? Might? At least, she was honest.
I will not be going back. I plan on checking out a few more nurseries and this time with — not — so high expectations.
Sorry Summerwinds. I really wanted to LOVE you. You are so close :-(

I’m a bit of a noob gardener. So I need all the help I can get. Fed up with the no-​nothing drones at those big box home improvement stores, I sought out a local nursery for my gardening needs. That’s how I came to Summer Winds.
I’ve driven by it many times on my dreaded weekend shopping trips along the Bell Road gauntlet, and never thought much of it. Whizzing by, it looks like not much more than a roadside stand.
But if you make your way inside, it unfolds like, dare I say, a blossom. It’s comprised of room after room, patio after patio of plants, pots, supplies, and décor. I spent nearly an hour just wandering around.
All I needed was something organic to battle the bugs munching on my lettuces. I brought in some sample leaves and soil. The woman told me I had cabbage loopers, and a mold problem. Apparently, I’m over-​watering. She also directed me to the appropriate treatment solution.
Beat that, orange-​aproned dolts!
Oh, and keep an eye out for the kittehs wandering throughout the property. I counted at least four.