Garden Apothecary

Great store! Stopped by on a spontaneous trip to Half Moon Bay. This store caught my eye. Went in with my Boyfriend and Pup, and was pleasantly greeted and helped by a wonderful woman. (Forgot her name, but she had glasses and wavy blondish hair) Loved all the products, didn’t see anything I particularly needed but found something to get because I had to help support this business. Keep doing what you guys are doing! Will be Back!

My favorite shop is doing workshops now! I went to the succulent wreath workshop with a couple friends last weekend. Learned some great tips for propagation, but best of all, I went home with the prettiest succulent wreath. I love everyone at Garden Apothecary! Thanks for the fun experience!

Gorgeous shop owned by a talented local gal who makes all the organic bath and beauty products. Also has a huge selection of organic herbal teas, plants, and items for your home or garden. The bath and beauty products are amazing and beautiful, I swing by often to restock. Also purchased several unique succulents last year that are now thriving in my kitchen and outer balcony (my little babies). Great spot for gifts, or treats for yourself. Friendly, informative staff is a huge plus.

My girlfriends and I took their succulent wreath making class and loved it. One of my friends was in town from Sacramento and this was the perfect activity to do in downtown Half Moon Bay! I love gardening but don’t always know how to properly take care of my plants. We not only made the sweetest wreaths but learned so much about care and propagation! Seriously awesome!

If you’re in Half Moon Bay, Garden Apothecary is definitely worth visiting especially if you appreciate quality, organically handmade bath and beauty products. I first discovered Garden Apothecary through their online shop a few years ago and instantly fell in love. All of their bath products are amazing, but my favorites are the French Green Clay Mud Mask, Cacao & Cardamom Bath Tea, the Vanilla Balsam Sugar Scrub, and the Eros Sugar Scrub. Also, if you’re looking for some really beautiful treasures for the home and garden, there’s a great selection of items that you can’t really find anywhere else like their vertical alphabet box planters, local Half Moon Bay honey, organic herbal teas, and unique gifts from handmade artists. You can tell that they put a lot of effort in offering goods that are truly unique and inspiring. The staff and customer service are always friendly, helpful, and attentive, which makes shopping here, a really pleasant experience. Definitely one of my favorite shops on the coast!

I really really wanted to like this cute little shop. Unfortunately, that was not the case. I came in on a weekday looking for a Valentine’s Day gift for a friend. I had been in before, but this was my first time in with the intention to purchase something. The girl helping me was very sweet, and she suggested a few items before I settled on a small potted plant. I was a little taken aback by the $ 25 price tag for a very small perennial, but I figured that a locally owned place such as this could use the business. The girl explained to me that their growing cycles were short, but that it could be replanted in my backyard and that they would re-​bloom about once a year. The plant was blooming when I bought it. She wrapped it for me in nice paper and I took it home.
Two days later, the whole flowering portion of the plant was brown and dry. Yes, she mentioned that the cycle for blooming was short. However, I was planning to give this to my friend the next day, and was obviously not going to gift her a dried out, brown flower with a green stalk.
After the holiday weekend was over (this was about 3 days later) I came back with my brown plant to ask for a refund. The girl I gave my plant to exclaimed that the plant looked like it had been «baked.» No, I explained that this is what it looked like right after I bought it, and that I couldn’t give it as a gift. The sales girl nodded and went back to get her boss (I assume). I explained my situation and the woman was quick to tell me that they do not accept returns for plants, and that I could choose a different plant or an item of similar value. Confused, I mentioned that there is no return policy posted, and I was not informed of one when I made the purchase. She told me that it is listed on the receipt. However, when I bought the plant, I used a credit card and was emailed a receipt. So, at the time I made the purchase I did NOT know the policy, nor would I have been rushing to check the receipt that had been emailed to me.
She also told me that they could not know what had happened in between the time that I bought the plant and when I returned it, implying that I had somehow ruined it with poor care. I had kept the plant in my house out of the sun, just as instructed. I again explained that I had bought the plant as a gift, and expected that they would understand, especially considering that it had cost me $ 25. I was wrong. I told them that I did not want a plant for myself, and that I didn’t even have a backyard that I could plant it in. The conversation began to get heated, and I finally agreed to just take a gift card for the same value.
It is always my aim to give local businesses traffic whenever I can, being that I have lived in Half Moon Bay for 20 years now. It is very sad to me when I am forced into punitive situations as such, and would really liked to have had a good experience. I will leave this place to tourists and passerby’s.

Half Moon Bay, CA
On Main St.
4 stars thanks to friendly staff and quality products.
Very neat shop next door to the HMB Feed & Fuel.
According to staff this store is the offspring of the owners primary business.
The lavender smells great, high quality items throughout including various honey items that is seasonally available.
The Honey Bears with pure honey were not available during my visit. I ended up picking up a jar with some honey comb.
Wasn’t cheap, borderline absurd (in comparison to a pic. of honey I posted a few weeks back) but I guess the honey comb drives up the price.
Really awesome letters, numbers available for outdoor home garden, decoration. They can be seen outside and a few within.

Nice ambiance but the apothecary/​herb/​bath product store. It’s a nice vacation destination shop if you have extra money to splurge on bath type of goods.

Adorable shop !! Greeted by a very warm welcome by lady when we walked in. She gave us great advice, uses, how products were made how to eat the honeycomb etc. loved everything in this shop. Great gifts, reasonable prices all organic and handmade. Honey with honeycomb awesome! The citrus soaps. Love! Can’t wait to go back and get more great things. I wish I got the mud masks and some teas. I will be back.

Cute addition to Main Street in downtown HMB.
You walk into this cute, little store, and you get inspired. Your senses get a treat from the creative décor to the smell of bath salts, lotions, organic perfumes and french soaps that puts you in a wonderful mood! :)
This place also has hard-​to find garden items along with tillandsia air plants and succulents. Very friendly and welcoming staff!

I simply LOVE everything about this little coastal gem located in the heart of Main Street in Half Moon Bay. Such a fun mix of merchandise. The Sugar Scrub and the rest of the body line is divine. The shop owner is so passionate about the every item in the store and is a wealth of knowledge.

Stepping thru the door is like entering a well tended fairy ring where every treasure is magically displayed making you realize you can easily make your garden just as magical. The creativity crackles in the air and stirs the senses and soon you will be designing your garden in your head. And if you need help with your ideas, someone is there to lend a hand.
On the other side are shelves of personal care products, handmade in small batches with organic ingredients, that will sooth and tend to your body & soul.
A beautiful shop to visit.

Amazing selection of hard-​to-​find garden items, with a super friendly, knowledgable staff. Jenn has created a jewel of a garden shop in the heart of Half Moon Bay. Not to be missed!

Beautiful and charming HMB shop. Absolutely love the bath teas, mud masks, sugar scrubs, gardening supplies, and well everything. A must see when in Half Moon Bay! You will fall in love with unique products and aesthetic of this shop. My absolute favorite spot on Main St. All beauty products are handmade in small batches and include high quality organic ingredients. Love! Love! Love!

This is a great little garden and botanical shop right in downtown Half Moon Bay. Lots of interesting gardening tools, often hand made, wonderful organic herbs and unique succulents.
The range of organic or wild harvested dried botanicals is impressive and the Mayan cacao (the plant chocolate comes from) products are amazing. Best cacao nibs I’ve ever seen.

This is my favorite store in town! Everything is hand-​picked, hand made, and epically curated. I love how every time I come in the store in feels familiar but not the same. I bought these beautiful lotus dishes and the most insanely delicious smelling Sage. I love all of the goodies and gifts but the product line of organic bath products is my staple. My fav is the organic Sugar scrub it leaves me feeling delicious and silky smooth. I will be back often!

Beautiful, well thought out shop new to Main Street. It is a charming, unique shop that has gardening, cosmetic and fun items — with lots of crossover on products! Honey and mud masks? Eat it, or scrub with it? Always a place to go to learn something and try something new!

This quaint and charming shop is centrally located in downtown Half Moon Bay, and I love their eclectic mix of unique gift items, gardening and beauty products! Many of the items for sale are produced locally, and others are sourced from faraway places such as Belize, Portugal etc. I recently purchased a very unusual handmade ceramic container that I adore.
It is a great place to browse — they carry their own line of organic beauty products, fair trade cocoa beans, high-​end gardening items, and all sorts of unique merchandise that you cannot find at the mall! They seem to offer new items fairly frequently, so I usually browse the store every time I walk by. The owner is a lovely young lady who is extremely knowledgeable and enthusiastic about her products. On one occasion I was helped by an employee who was equally charming, friendly and personable. A real find! Don’t miss it!

I love it when I walk into a store and it looks like I walked into someone’s rustic cottage in the countryside. Garden Apothecary is a charming little store on Main Street that sells soaps, bath salts, and lotions on one side, and herbs, tillandsia air plants, and other home & garden items on the other side. They actually had their grand opening just this past Friday. The store smells really good (kind of like a spa) because of the blocks of french soaps that they sell here. This is a great place to pick up gifts (for others or for yourself!). I saw some one-​time mud mask packs where you just add water — that would make a great addition to a gift bag for a party or bridal shower. There was also a chalkboard tablet which I thought would make a cute gift as well. The interior of the store is just really pretty and there are lots of beauty and garden things to look at.