South Seattle Garden Center

Plants for sale are selected, propagated, and grown by Landscape Horticulture students. The Garden Center at South Seattle College provides students the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned while gaining real-world retail experience. Proceeds benefit Landscape Horticulture Program projects.

Located at Seattle Chinese Garden, 6000 16th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98106, South Seattle Garden Center operates as a plant nursery serving Seattle in Washington. This page gathers the practical details people usually look for before visiting: where it is, how to reach it, when it opens and how customers rate it.

Garden centers and plant nurseries sell annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees, vegetables and houseplants, along with soil, mulch, fertilizer, pots and tools. Independent nurseries often grow part of their own stock and carry varieties that do well in the local climate, while big-box garden departments compete on price for common plants. Wholesale nurseries and growers sell to landscapers and sometimes to the public at volume prices; tree nurseries sell balled-and-burlapped and container trees and can deliver and plant large specimens. Specialty growers focus on bonsai, cactus and succulents, orchids or native plants, and hydroponics stores sell lights, nutrients and systems for growing indoors.

The business lists hours on 3 days of the week. On most of those days it is open 10 am–3 pm. Note that it does not open on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday. As with most places, expect changes around holidays; the phone number below is the fastest way to confirm. The listed phone number is (206) 934-5323. Many businesses also reply to text messages on the same number if it is a cell phone. More information is available on its website, southseattle.edu.

It has a Google rating of 4.8 out of 5, though from only 4 reviews so far, so treat the score as an early indication rather than a verdict.

Seattle is in Washington, in the Pacific Northwest, where winters are mild and wet, summers are dry and pleasant, and outdoor recreation drives a lot of local business; hours change little through the year. Traffic in Seattle peaks on weekday mornings and afternoons, so allow extra time then. Addresses read from the street number up to the city, state abbreviation and five-digit ZIP code; the map link on this page shows the exact spot.

See the other plant nurseries in Seattle listed below to compare ratings, hours and locations before you decide. Details on this page come from public sources and may change; confirm anything important by phone before relying on it. Business owners can claim the listing to keep it up to date.