I love Sky Nursery and have to admit that I prefer it to Swansons. Although you have to make the trek up Aurora, it's "freeway close", not far from the 175th st. exit and easy to get to.
They have tons of parking, a great indoor shop full of gardening goodies plus some trinkety stuff (although a lot of that is cheap), a lovely indoor plant section and a giant selection of annuals and perennials all under a greenhouse cover so you don't have to bake in the sun -- nice during hot days like last week. I think their supply is better than the aforementioned nursery even plus the staff is very friendly. Perhaps they deal with a less snooty clientle. Oh, you can also buy bulk gardening materials there. If you pick up only $26 for a yard of Cedar grove compost! (I think that is less than half price for bagged.)
So it's Sky for me.
All that being said, Swanson's has that lovely indoor shop with the little cafe and their bags of materials are located in the parking lot -- easier to load.
Ah gardening season. (-:
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