Mt Fuji Garden Center

I purchase my seeds and veggies here yearly, I bought some of my fruit trees, bonsai plants and berries here too. Service is great! They do special orders too!

Quality plants, very nice people, and a good selection. I’d give them 5 stars, but I was going there to purchase about 30 plants for my new landscaping, and they didn’t take American Express :(
So, I just bought one little thing instead.

If you want service with knowledge and a wide variety of plants, trees and garden decorations… this is the place to go. More importantly, the place has soul and a zen like feeling. Not everything is neat, but it has a free form feeling of peace.
You want cold, corporate business like atmosphere masquerading as a nursery then go somewhere else. There arent many places like this left in the area.

I really enjoy visiting & shopping here. Not only is the customer service great — -any and all questions are welcome — but the plant selection is wonderful. There are so many different varieties to choose from here. I also appreciate that a majority of their vegetable plants are GMO free. If you’re looking for an array of plants, gardening tools, pottery… please check this place out!
Ps. Small perk but they also give «Fuji dollars» for every $ 20 that you spend with them. Win-​win in my book!

Great guys and awesome selection/​prices. Got tired of paying top dollar for veggies and flowers every season at lowes and homedepot. Prices and relatively cheaper and have awesome selection! Friendly guys too, walking around and one guy kept saying thank you for the business more than 5 times once everytime he d see me walk around! Great place check it out.

I really like these guys. They have been there for many years for a reason. The prices are reasonable and customer service is fantastic…

Check this place out! This was my first visit here today and have to give at least four stars for the service and selection. Found a great selection of organic seed and some san marzano tomato plants that I’ve been looking for. Great local nursery that’s been in business for a long time. Very reasonably priced and they have fruit trees as well. I’m sure I’ll be back soon.

Great place for some different plants, bonsai materials and bonsais. Great staff, very helpful!

Most of the folks here are very helpful to those of us who are not professional gardeners/​growers.
You won’t get advice like this at Armstrong or Lowe’s who are largely just «employees in the garden section».
It’s the kind of neighborhood place that you just hope is there forever. They actually have cookies and coffee out all the time. It’s like going over to someone’s house!

This is a place that I used to love going to for years (five years ago this would have been a five star review) but now only go if I need something that I can’t get elsewhere. They used to be really helpful and knowledgeable so this is not a review I am happy to write.
There is one particular fellow with grayish/​white hair that in my opinion is just unpleasant to have to deal with. Another reviewer, I believe, called him condescending. I mean there have been times when I have gone to Fuji on a Saturday and he has been behind the counter and I just turned around and left. Just don’t want to have to deal with that from a business I am giving my money to.
To be fair, the long time Japanese fellows there are very knowledgeable and friendly. Unfortunately, they seem to be harder to find these days.
I hate giving this place a bad review because I do want to support local businesses, but from my personal experiences over the past four or so years, I think customer service at Mt Fuji has slowly declined and earned it.

I just started gardening seriously and I’ve driven to A LOT of different nurseries. In terms of competence, helpfulness, selection and price, this is the best nursery I’ve found in the area.

They are helpful, but don’t expect good service. Their prices are high, but they do have some plants that are unique. The staff is very relaxed and unhurried, which is good and bad depending on your time limitations. The other small garden centers in the area don’t have the unique selection of plants. Come when they aren’t busy.

I found the prices to be good, the selection to be wide and the assistance to be terrific. Thanks for the good first experience. I purchased 9 bare root fruit trees and a couple of the recommended bags of soil mixture.
UPDATE 4÷13÷12: All 9 trees are budding and flowering, which is SO exciting, especially for a new gardener like me!

Even though the prices at this place are a little higher than the big box stores, I can always get solid advice and tips from the staff. Taking a walk through the grounds is almost like visiting a botanical garden. Great place to get vegetables, plants and trees.

A nice assortment of plant material, visited mid summer a couple of times. An older garden center, where some of the material seem to be lacking attention, tough I’m sure when the temperatures get around 100! Nice staff, help when needed.

We took another road trip to this garden center and we ended up loving it even more the second time. They have a great selection of plants and Bonsai trees, which is the main reason we came out here. The people that work there are all really helpful and nice and the prices are good as well. I really wish we had a place like this in Irvine, I think we would probably be there every weekend.

Jason J’s review in 2008 pretty much says it all. I only want to add that I can count on Mt Fuji to carry a vast amount of hard-​to-​find heirloom tomato plants starting in the early Spring. I drive a good 30 miles just to see their stock, when I know well that other nurseries closer to my home carry some, but not as many selections. Thank you Mt Fuji for being there for me.

This is the only nursery that I’ve made multiple stops at (and I live a block away from another nursery that shall remain nameless for now). I’m happy with their selection of plants; they’ve got bonsai, vegetables (right now they’ve got lots of tomatoes), trees, perennials, annuals, etc.
Active military gets a discount. They hold classes on various topics too!
The folks there are really friendly, and as someone mentioned, free cookies make my day.
Be warned, they can get pretty crowded in the spring and parking can get tight.

I got a ton of free plants from here thanks to a coupon, and then a couple of those plants got mashed on the drive home when I had to slam on the brakes because a pair of ducks tried to commit suicide by flying in front of the car. I have never seen any other ducks here EVER except when I was making a point to drive carefully so that the plants wouldn’t get mashed. So you see my gardening career was off to an inauspicious start.
But anyways, that wasn’t Fuji’s fault. And it wasn’t their fault, either, that every damn thing I planted in my poor, sad little yard died. That would be my fault. Oh, wait, I think I have salvaged the orange tree, which was the only thing I actually did pay for. Poor little orange tree. Thank you to the Sunset pruning book from the library for telling me how to care for the little guy.
But I’m not really a fan of this place. I’m such a newbie at gardening that I really love a lot of advice, and the people here were not helpful. I got a nice pruning saw and a few other tools here, as well as some nice soil amendment, but beyond telling me what to buy, these folks were not helpful. Plus, on my second time here, I felt as though one particular guy was condescending to me. Like, oh how cute, she wants to play in the dirt. I wanted to say, «Wipe that look off your face and answer my questions in full sentences even if it doesn’t end in a sale. That way, I’ll come back.»
But now I won’t.

Mt. Fuji Garden Center is another one of those places I’ve been going since before I can remember. In fact it was here where my grandfather taught me in part how to foster a love of gardening and how to enjoy caring for a garden.
Mt. Fuji has a very large lot and they have a lot of things. They’re a little pricier for some more run of the mill sorts of things, but they generally take good care of their plants.
I go there for:
1. Fruit trees, especially citrus.
2. Ornamental trees. They carry a number of harder-​to-​find species, and it’s nice to see what they have every now and again.
3. Japanese style evergreens. They literally make works of art at Mt. Fuji with evergreen trees. I strongly suggest going to see if only to see what’s possible.
4. They have really nice wind chimes. Some of them are pretty expensive (like $ 30 – 50, but they’re worth it in my opinion for the quality.)
5. Seeds. They have a huge assortment of seeds at good prices.
My recommendation: go and check it out… and dream of the possibilities with your own little piece of creation.
Five star rating for their variety of selection.