Half Moon Bay Nursery

One of my favorite places. Tons of variety and every plant I have gotten here over the years has done really well. If you are a serious gardener or just getting started the quality of the plants here is great!

This isn’t just a wonderful nursery. It’s a destination. The sea of color from rows of gorgeous plants. The friendly, helpful, knowledgeable, customer service. All this with opera music playing in the background. I go there for the beautiful plants but always leave rejuvenated. Thank you!

Love this place! Best price/​selection on the peninsula for 2″ pot succulents $ 2.25! And they have a huge greenhouse full of anything your little heart desires

We will definitely be back! We came on Valentine’s Day and bought the most beautiful Angel’s Parasol Hydrangeas! Totally a treat to visit!

The prices are reasonable but I am not sure how often I’ll be back to shop for gardening/​plants/​trees. Porter potty for bathrooms; they dont welcome dogs (they have cats on premise).
It is cheaper than Golden Nursery in San Mateo. (paid $ 80 for a lemon tree) and only $ 50 at HMB Nursery for the same tree.

Came here last week and spent alot of money!
They have everything here.
I picked up a variety of plants including herbs, aloe vera, succulents, cactus, bamboo and orchids.
No dogs allowed.

This place and Sierra Azul in Watsonville are the best two plant nurseries I have found in the SF Bay Area. It has a great selection and very good prices. This definitely is a nursery that has everything you could ever want but without the high prices of the specialty local nurseries.
It pays to shop around but if you want to look through a huge selection of plants and know what you want, this is one of the best places around.

Really great selection of a wide range of plants, shrubs, vines and trees to include drought tolerant ones. I especially like their substantial selection of cactus and succulents. They get four stars versus five, simply because of their prices. I pay more for just about anything I buy there, than I pay at other retail nurseries. I don’t mind paying more when I can’t get the goods elsewhere, and they do carry stuff Home Deport and OSH do not. On the other hand, I bought a few cacti there a few weeks ago and then found them at OSH, bigger in size, for about half the price.

We came here for succulents. We were amazed by the variety, not only for succulents but also with other kind plants/​flowers. Their plants are in good condition and at just prices. I would recommend this nursery without a doubt!

This place was awesome!!! So many plants to look at and all very healthy. I am in love with their monstrous hanging baskets; but need to find a home spot for one. I felt like the prices were really great and they bad had a nice array of colors, types, and sizes to choose from. I bought a few small plants (which is what I came on for) and I will definitely be coming back!

Best nursery in SF bay hands down. Prices are reasonable and affordable, I don’t say cheap like Home Depot but occasionally cheaper than Home Depot. Wide selection annual and perennial, shrubs and vines, fruit trees and veggie plants, roses and hydrangea you name it. Very friendly family business never ever disappointed. Plants are healthy and available hard to find plants and roses like David Austin’s. I’m more than home gardener, I collected plants this is my choice of place. Visit at least once a month not to missed any beautiful plants. I strongly recommend you to go there for your garden treasures.

I came here looking for bamboo and was amazed at the cheap prices and huge selection. Hundreds of bamboo and palms in the back to choose from. I got an 8 foot black bamboo for $ 39 and it has already sprouted a new chute at the bottom in the first month. *Best prices, best selection, best quality*. I’ll be heading back for a second bamboo plant soon.
They have signs saying no dogs but they let me keep my little yorkie in my jacket, two thumbs up for being friendly and helpful. Very nice people working here. I can’t imagine going anywhere else.

Went in on ²⁄₂₇. Great selection of 4“annuals ranging in price from $ 0.98 to $ 3, but better quality and selection than Home Depot could ever offer. Climate controlled greenhouses with appropriate temperature and humidity for plants such as cacti and tropicals. I grew up shopping at this nursery and I’m pleased that even 10 years later, the quality and selection is still the same.
No credit/​debit minimum. There are cats roaming around and hanging out at the register, which is fun.

HMB Nursery is a bay area gem and a destination for any California gardener.
When you visit for the first time give yourself plenty of time to wander around the grounds. This is a sprawling nursery that has just about anything that you can imagine. The staff is friendly and quirky much like the nursery itself. HMB nursery sells Annie’s Annuals and has almost as good of a selection as Annie’s itself. It’s worth the drive there for all of the money that you’ll save. Definitely go here before you go to a big box store. You won’t see anything half as healthy or approaching the variety here.
The only negative comment I have is for Hwy. 92. On sunny weekends it’s a BITCH to deal with all of the traffic heading to the beach.

Best nursery around… the best time to come is the spring/​summer when they have a variety of plant offerings from air plants, succulents, bamboo, hydrangeas, hibiscus, pots, metal trellises, etc.
Great selection and you can literally and figuratively get lost in this place and spend a couple of hours here. Just a wonderful place and rarely leave empty handed!

Fortunately I did not get the honor of dealing with «Brad». Reading through a lot of the older reviews, I was actually looking forward to the opportunity. I would have loved very much to have given him a taste of his own humble pie.
The selection here is mind boggling. My neighbor and I came looking for new Salvia varieties to add to our roof garden. We easily spent about an hour and a half wandering the property looking at all the beautiful plants. We even encountered the most beautiful hummingbirds I have ever seen!!!
Can’t wait to go back and wander the grounds again! Hopefully Brad will be working!

Half Moon Bay Nursery has a great selection of plants and very decent price! The staff are also very friendly and they go out of their way to help you out. I was looking for a specific cactus specimen and they looked at different nurseries to help me find one.
The nursery is also very beautiful and fun to walk around, they have a lot of exotic plants as well which makes it more fun.

5 stars for HUGE inventory and amazing selection, –3 stars for customer service!
Its really very sad that such a wonderful place employs people who are so unbelievably rude. Don’t expect to have your questions answered nicely, the older man is just plain mean, you walk away shaking your head and wondering «did I say something wrong?»
There are lots of nurseries on the coast… not sure if I will go back to this one! so sad…

Why drive all the way to Half Moon Bay for some plants? Because, my friends, this isn’t just any old plant store. HMB Nursery has everything a gardner would need, and then some!
I’ll admit that most plant purchases up until now have been at Home Depot, Lowe’s, or a small shop dedicated to a handful of house greenery. HMB Nursery dedicates itself to a crazy variety of trees, bushes, plants, soil, and rows upon rows of plants organized into their respective categories. Whether you wanted to start a rose garden, maintain a grove of lemon trees, or just get some live bugs to keep your soil extra yummy (not sure why one would do that, but it’s a real thing), a person could spend hours browsing the sheer selection!
Another confession: I’ve killed every plant that I’ve owned. So this time, we took extra care and consideration when choosing what to take home. Had it not been a beautiful, and therefore busy, Saturday I think we could’ve gotten some advice from the gentlemen who run the nursery. Instead, they were bombarded at the register! Rather than wait for these guys to tell us what we could probably assume or look up on our smart phones, we went with a small, carefully selected group of edible herbs that required medium sunlight. Seemed like a safe choice.
Sure it’s a bit out of the way to visit Half Moon Bay, especially for items that could be found elsewhere and closer to home. But I must say that HMB Nursery is a plant lover’s paradise! Even someone who isn’t as experienced or educated in the flora department could appreciate the quality here.
Thanks Unilocalers for the recommendation. Praying that our new plants survive!

One of the best nurseries in the Bay Area in my book… Name it and they probably have it. I’ve bought everything here from Japanese maple trees, succulents, veggie plants, to fruit trees. The place is pretty big, and very organized. I always feel very inspired after visiting this spot.
The owners are super friendly, and very knowledgeable. Anyone can have a green thumb!