Garden Supplies

Below is a list of organizations that provide niche or unique garden supplies – infrastructure materials and unique supplies that aren’t always easy to find.

5th Street Ace Hardware

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Locally owned hardware store on 5th St near Mt. Vernon Sq. in Washington DC.

5th Street Ace Hardware

Afresco

International grocery store that sells cheap food grade 55-gallon barrells for retrofitting into rainbarrles or Bokashi Bins.

American Plant

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We at American Plant, family-owned environmentally responsible garden centers, providing superior plants, products, knowledge and services for our customers and community.

American Plant

Annie’s Ace Hardware – Brookland

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We are a locally owned and operated hardware store convenient serving the Brookland, Brentwood, Eckington, Michigan Park, and Edgewood communities in DC.

Annie’s Ace Hardware – Brookland

Annie’s Ace Hardware – Petworth

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Locally owned and operated hardware store convenient to the Petworth, Park View and Columbia Heights communities in Washington, D.C. (Annie’s Ace has locations in Petworth and Brookland DC).

Annie’s Ace Hardware – Petworth

Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment

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Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment (ACE) was founded in 1978 by the Arlington County Department of Public Works to address environmental issues beyond litter and began focusing its efforts on recycling. During the 1990’s, ACE continued to focus on litter and worked comfortably with the local business community. Today, ACE remains a volunteer organization focusing on local environmental issues including green living, litter, and invasive plants, with additional programs in the areas of watershed resources and schoolyard education.

Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment

Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment - Specific Information on Garden Supplies

Behnke Nurseries

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Behnke Nurseries sells a full range of ornamental and edible gardening plants, for outdoors and indoors, and everything you need to make them grow. We also have excellent landscape and florist services. Our events reinforce our commitment to bringing gardens and nature to the public.

Behnke Nurseries

Community Forklift

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Community Forklift is a nonprofit reuse warehouse for home improvement supplies. We pick up donations of unwanted and salvaged building materials throughout the metro DC region. Then, we make the building materials available to the public at low cost, and provide vintage materials for restoring old homes. We also offer public education about reuse and green living, and distribute free supplies to local nonprofits and neighbors in need.

Community Forklift

Dripworks

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DripWorks provides quality drip irrigation supplies and equipment to people wanting to reap the savings and benefits of using drip irrigation.

Dripworks

Frager’s Hardware

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Hardware store that sells plants, gardening equipment; and supplies. Rents tools. Locally owned and operated since 1920.

Frager’s Hardware

Gallighuer and Huguely

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Galliher & Huguely is a full service Lumber, Hardware, Millwork and Building Supply Company servicing Homeowners & Professionals in the Washington DC Metro Area

Gallighuer and Huguely

Ginkgo Gardens

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Urban garden center offering indoor & outdoor plants, tools & statues, plus design services.

Ginkgo Gardens

Home Depot

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The Home Depot is a big box hardware chain with locations in and around DC.

Home Depot

Johnny’s Seed Company

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Johnny’s Selected Seeds is committed to helping growers and gardeners succeed with superior seeds, tools, information, and service.

Johnny’s Seed Company

Johnson’s Florist & Garden Centers

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The Washington, DC metropolitan area’s premier, neighborhood, family-owned florist and garden center.

Johnson’s Florist & Garden Centers

Lowe’s

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Lowe’s is a big box hardware chain with locations in and around DC.

Lowe’s

Maryland Farmer’s Exchange

Maryland Farmer’s Exchange is a place where locals can gather to buy/sell/trade anything farm related.

Merrifeld Garden Center

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We’re a full-service garden center, nursery and landscaping company that has been serving customers throughout Northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area since 1971. With three full-service garden centers in Virginia – Merrifield, Fairfax and Gainesville – we offer one of the largest selections of plants and gardening accessories in the entire country.

Merrifeld Garden Center

Old City Farm & Guild

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Old City Farm & Guild is a green space that provides educational programming and facilitates community activities surrounding gardening, nutrition, and environmental education. It is a hub for other green organizations to cross-pollinate. It sells plants, soil, and other gardening supplies in order to support the cost of running these programs; and provides a CSA program for our neighbors, and organic vegetables and fruits for public gardens and area organizations. “Where people and Plants Come Together”.

Old City Farm & Guild

Patuxent Nursery

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Patuxent features a gardening oriented gift shop, outdoor living accessories, the largest selection of trees and shrubs in the metro area, the most amazing assortment of colorful flowers, perennials, tropicals and organically grown edibles.

Patuxent Nursery

Purple Mountain Organics

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Purple Mountain offers solutions to better health by providing and supporting local agricultural systems and services. It has evolved from a vision of local food sustainability and helping our patients grow and eat their own food, to a regional enterprise helping farmers grow food by offering the highest quality tools, equipment, and services.

Purple Mountain Organics

Re-Nuble

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Re-Nuble develops products and technologies, derived from vegetative waste, focused on natural ways to make food more productive.

Re-Nuble

Rent a Coop

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Rent a Coop offers 4 Week Chicken Coop and Egg Laying Hen Rentals! We provide you with all the tools and materials you need for your rental period. We also have a purchasing option!

Rent a Coop

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

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Southern Exposure Seed Exchange offers more than 700 varieties of vegetable, flower, herb, grain and cover crop seeds. It emphasizes varieties that perform well in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, although gardeners and farmers from all over the country grow our seeds. This worker-run cooperative does not sell chemically treated or GMO seeds.

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

Tank Depot

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Retail store for online ordering for a wide variety of cisterns.

Tank Depot

Tenleytown Ace Hardware

Locally owned hardware store on Wisconsin Ave in Tenleytown, DC.

Tenleytown Ace Hardware

The Community Woodlands Alliance (CWA)

Near Dickerson, Maryland, at the Seneca Creek Joinery, the CWA has developed a vertically integrated waste wood resource development center. We have in place the technology, infrastructure and logistics capability to perform every aspect of wood production including timber harvesting, raw materials preparation, manufacturing and fabrication, physical distribution and marketing. Public and private woodland owners and managers are encouraged to bring trees lost to storms, disease and urban expansion to the center for processing.

The Community Woodlands Alliance (CWA)

The Victory Seed Company

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No unstable hybrids, chemically treated seeds, or GMOs. Seed saving and farming since the early 1900s, we only offer heirloom, rare, open-pollinated seeds to home gardeners.               

The Victory Seed Company

Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm

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Looking to buy worms? I specialize in Red Wigglers – Composting Worms. I’ve been raising Red Wiggler Worms and Meal-worms for over 40 years. I’ve raised African Night Crawlers, Canadian Night Crawlers and Gray Night Crawlers.

Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm

Underground Greens

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Undergroud Greens is a commerical hydroponic vertical farm in the District of Columbia specializing in microgreens and wheat grass. Undergrund Greens is selling to grocers, juice bars, community supported agriculture (CSA) programs, caterers, and restaurants in the DC metro area and also provides consultation, education services and has developed kits for aspiring urban farmers to grow their own microgreens.

Underground Greens

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Woodley Park Ace Hardware

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Locally owned harware store on Connecticut Ave in Woodley Park, DC.

Woodley Park Ace Hardware

WS Jenks

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Welcome to W.S. Jenks & Son, Established in 1866, W.S. Jenks is Washington’s most complete source for Tools, Hardware, and Machinery.

WS Jenks

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