Sadly, they are permanently closed. The owners retired a few years ago after more than 70 years in…read morebusiness. I miss them!! An alternative is SCHURING's only 2.5 miles away on Schuring Rd but check first because they have a short retail season.

Shram's is my favorite of all for purchasing my plants each year. The owner is nearly always…read moreworking and will answer any questions. This family-owned business really cares about their customers. They offer a customer loyalty punch card each year. Don't let the small store front fool you... They offer a large variety of plants from sun to shade, annuals to perennials, as well as veggies and herbs. Remember when stores offered to carry purchases to your car? They still do! Just be sure to bring cash or check as they do not accept credit/debit cards. I cannot say enough about their quality plants and customer service. FYI, if you hesitate to shop there because of their location on Westnedge, don't worry; they have an entry/exit to a side road that has a traffic light to get back onto Westnedge!

The selection is wonderful and the staff even better! Lydia helps us all the time. She is a wealth…read moreof information! We keep coming back more times than we should!! Too many plants...almost not enough room!! Go you won't be disappointed!

From the owner: Open April-October. Please go to our website for current hours of operation as they fluctuate…read moremonthly. We specialize in annual flats, hanging baskets, & container pots. We also carry a variety of vegetables, herbs, perennials, succulents, trees, and shrubs. We feature DairyDOO products, Jack's Classic fertilizers, and Proven Winners. please go to our website for our opening and closing dates and current hours of operation

Great staff and selection…read more My favorite garden store in Portage. Prices are fair to boot.

I've been a customer for 40 yrs and never disappoints. Always someone close by to answer questions…read moreand help. Selection and quality is the standard there. Love shopping local.

My two 9 inch diameter Sugar Maples were planted by Prudential in 2019 on Earth Day, April 22…read more Charlie came to my house (about40miles 1way) in 2020, during Covid, masked up and showed me how to apply the tree food. They are the most beautiful and healthy trees I have planted here. I plan to return when I have time to do more serious tree purchasing and planting. I had a much better experience with Prudential than I have had at either of the big name garden centers in this area. Thank you Charlie and staff.

For the first time in my life I purchased tree(s). The women inside were very helpful in assisting…read moreme picking out 3 Japanese Maple trees. I took their advice not knowing much about buying trees. Charlie came out and planted them. The trees did not make it even one year, they all died. There is NO warranty on their trees it seems. We grew up in a small community like Vicksburg. My wife worked in the Village for 30 years. We chose Prudential over the preferred Nursery that our Condo Association promoted. We made a mistake it seems. That nursery gives a standard one year warranty which would have covered our trees. Only OUR trees died. Very disappointed in this and the fact that Charlie will not talk with us. Lesson learned.

Their return policies are terrible. 7 days for A/C products…read moreand 48 hours for appliances. I'm done with Home Depot because they are probably going out of business. Lowe's takes care of their customers and will be the only place I shop from now on. Goodbye Home Depot. Gone,gone,gone

Former employee of The Home Depot for over 4 years…read more I would describe it as: amazing when its good, when its bad, look for a new job. This company allows employees to have money taken from their paychecks and endangers them to the point of almost death. TLDR - Management is too cowardly and will get someone injured or killed because they won't have an open conversation with troublesome employees, and theyd rather sweep everything under the rug and pretend nothing is happening and praying it wont. Management has ignored multiple emails, meetings they even agreed to. So they know money has been taken from employees, that our lives have been endangered. They DO NOT CARE. Management is either ALLOWED, or TOLD to lie, without consequence. Long version. Fat trimmed. When I got hired I was told within 2 years of being "okay" at my job, I should be expecting to be earning around 100k. This was a complete lie. The TRUTH.....is that ONE associate, ONE year earned that. This was told to myself and about a dozen others. When I alerted his boss of this discrepency, nothing happened. While I was in training in the field, the gentleman that trained me straight up tried to sell me meth on the clock but also partook himself. I alerted this to the boss that told me my pay expectation, nothing happened. When nothing happened I went to his boss, nothing happened. LUCKILY, for several years and MOST of my time here I had good bosses, so a few years went by. My managers started dropping because they were done dealing with the guy that did nothing, because all the work was shoved on them because the guy that promised people a crazy amount of pay and protected a meth user and dealer was and frankly still is, useless and more bad for this company than not. Now that all good managements gone(or inaccessable to me), lets get to the sad part that I HOPE.....someone big enough in the food chain will look into this, because a small pile of spoiled appled will ruin more if they are not trimmed. I got my SEVENTH boss early 2024. For perfect context, I had 2 broken feet(on top of a lot of general chronic pain), requested a lighter work load (was denied), requested to only have at MOST 8 hour shifts (3-4 days a week were over 9) I was covering a 150 MILE RADIUS, because we do not hire skilled, or reliable people when we are in a crunch, just someone with a pulse. I was written up once in my 4 years prior to this 7th boss due to a person in texas purposely putting gap in my schedule which was not discussed or agreed on as I was there to do as much as possible. (this was when texas had the nasty ice storm a few years bad, I was there for about a month helping) In less than a singular year I was written up 3, technically 4 times if you count my firing. Lets go over those. My first write up has no information or details due to my manager. So I will neither take that as is or defend myself. Two, due to my manager simply not having a conversation with not just A store associate,THE ONLY ONE, that has had guns pointed in my face. Because I called the associate out in the reschedule for that they need to pay more attention, go over with customers the correct information to avoid these issues. I was written up. Third. I had recently moved within 2 weeks. I was going to an area about 120 miles round trip away, thats well over an hours drive. A customer had unfortunately gotten called into work and my boss had texted me before I had even woken up which he knew. asking me if I was willing to push my workday back to accommodate the customer. This was originally posed as a QUESTION, or...an OPTION. I had called the customer and explained I had to be back in town before 5pm and I was unable to start my day roughly 6 hours later than normal. She understood this and rescheduled without issue. I had a 1 on 1 meeting with my boss that morning anyways. I was told that wasn't an option, even though it was worded as one. I was then written up, and what irks me the most is I told him, I had responsibilities I had to be in town for, because if I clock in at 8:30AM, My shift should be DONE bye 4:30, he apparently didn't know that, even though it was in a text message,crazy how managers get to lie to write you up. My fourth write up was because my boss is either a pathological liar, had a vendetta or there is just something wrong in his electric meatball. Someone was not doing thier job and I simply told him I was not going to do someone elses work when they can do it themselves, they are capable, and thats also POLICY AND PROTOCOL. It is crazy that this massive company protects meth dealers, management that gives you false information about your pay, lies to you (this guy still works here), pathological liars, management that doesn't do their job/lies to employees. Management(at least mine) was allowed to continuously lie or leave out VERY IMPORTANT details to negatively impact others and the management(bosses) above did not care when you told.

My husband periodically swings by here to treat me to a beautiful bouquet. Not so much since the…read morepandemic, since he never leaves the house, but I was feeling epically lousy recently and he offered to go to the store to grab some headache medicine for me and did me the kindness of swinging by Polderman's on the way home to grab a beautiful bouquet. Definitely a day-maker! I've got admit I was nervous to see this pop up on our credit card statement, since it had about five birds of paradise and three gigantic gerbera daisies (truly the most vibrant and gigantic blooms I've seen -- they reminded me of prima ballerina tutus that were perfectly starched!) I would have expected that these eight stems alone, let alone any filler, would run a pretty penny. But when I glanced at our credit card statement, it was under $30. I can't tell you how many times I see people post photos of bouquets on Yelp and say how disappointed they are with what they got for the amount they paid (NOT at this particular business, just in general). The spot really bring the wow factor for a very affordable price in my opinion. That said, my husband probably picked out each bloom by himself and knows exactly what I like -- but the fact that they have flowers this lovely and don't charge an arm and a leg for them is definitely good info to have. There really are quite a few fabulous businesses and this particular stretch of Portage Road by West and Austin lakes -- I highly recommend checking out Polderman's, Trove, and West Lake pharmacy/gift shop If you're in this neck of the woods visiting Presidential Brewing, The Cove, or Latitude 42.

Great service Get above and beyond flowers for price $…read morePuts the best bouquets together at last minute Notice!

Great store, owner is extremely helpful/knowledgeable. Great selection, locally owned 5+ starsread more

Jeremy was extremely helpful and knowledgeable. He listened to all of our questions patiently, and…read moreanswered all of them without seeming the slightest bit annoyed. Very helpful. Excellent customer service. Found our hydro store!