From start to finish, the entire experience with Rutgers Nursery is perfectly managed. The moment you walk in, you are greeted by an outstanding team from the cashiers, landscape architects, and plant specialists to the scheduling and installation staff. Everyone works together to create an exceptional customer experience. In my case, I had the pleasure of working with Mark this year whose art and design background truly shines through. He expertly guided me through the design process, helping personalize my selections to ensure my vision came to life beautifully. His creativity, patience, and knowledge made the process enjoyable and stress-free. Chris, the manager, is always willing to step in and help support your choices and offer guidance especially for picky customers like me who sometimes struggle to make final decisions! His professionalism and customer first attitude never go unnoticed. Lucy, who handles scheduling, is always so friendly, pleasant, and accommodating. She makes coordinating installations easy and seamless. And finally, Salvador, the installer, continues to amaze me with his professionalism, attention to detail, and outstanding final results. Every project looks polished and beautifully executed. I also want to recognize the amazing team that leads the events and workshops including Ashley "Spice Girl", Caroline, and the wonderful red-headed team member (Cortney?)whose name I unfortunately forgot. They always create fun, informative, and engaging events that are well worth attending. It's a fantastic value and such an enjoyable way to spend an afternoon. My hats off to the entire Rutgers Nursery team for consistently delivering excellence, professionalism quality plants , creativity, and outstanding customer service. I highly recommend them! read more

We've gotten a patio with plantings and two shade trees through Rutgers. They are a little more expensive than their competitors which we knew, but we loved the whole experience of the design and thought they were very professional. The reason why I wouldn't recommend this company is the quality of their support is subpar. Many of the plantings died within the first year even though they get watered daily. The trees don't grow, whereas trees we bought from other landscaping companies in the area are already taller than our house. The patio has loose pavers and the low voltage lighting doesn't work everywhere. Some lights work, others don't. When I asked about the lights, they said it's a supplier issue from China, however they've installed other patios in our neighborhood with lights. I guess it's only a supplier issue for warranty issues and not new installs. The issue with the loose pavers however is the reason I'm writing this review. When I called to asked them to come out and take a look, they told me they can't take support calls like this over the phone instead I would need to email them. I don't understand how a company that I paid thousands of dollars to for a patio won't talk to me on the phone. I now have to wait days for a reply via email. Ridiculous Also, they are going to reply to this review asking me to call them and speak to management. That's a waste of time as when I call the person on the phone will say "send us an email". Terrible. read more

don't buy anything from this place. Read your guarantee, if your plant dies $10 or $500 you screwed ! shop at a nursery that stands behind their product read more

The selection was even better when we visited yesterday - vegetables, peonies, lilacs in bloom. We took home two additional shrubs after further consultation with Nancy who looked at photos of the spots we needed to fill and advised on beautiful options that would work in our conditions. Our dappled willows and viburnum are so pretty and getting lots of compliment from our neighbors. read more

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I've done two landscaping projects with Rutgers and both turned out beautifully! The staff is extremely knowledgeable and helpful. They were able to recommend plants based on my preferences and yard conditions. They also had nearly every shrub and trees I was interested in and I was able to see them in person before making my decision. The installation process was also very smooth. I highly recommend them! read more

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bought 4 trees from this business about four years ago. they installed. began losing one last year and contacted the business but was basically told I was on my own. a second tree is beginning to go this year.. I understand that they are not under warranty but a 50 percent loss in less than four years is not a very good record......buyer beware.... read more

I have to thank Joanna (sp?) from Rutgers Nursery for helping me purchase all my gardening needs (daylilllies, veggies etc) vía telephone during this pandemic . I was able to purchase everything via curbside pickup with her support !! Not only was it a touch free , the selections she made exceeded my expectations. I highly recommend Rutgers Nursery if you want quality plants, shrubs and veggies. They are always supportive and willing to support their clients especially during these challenging times! If your tired of Netflix's, make a trip to Rutgers or call them directly to arrange a curbside pickup . Many thanks!! Purchase, the selections exceeded read more

Rutgers came out to remove my small lawn and add topsoil with a topping of mulch. This was after Dave Smith came out to work with us on what to do with this long, narrow, shady part of our small in-town property. He has a cost effective solution and helped us to plan for the winter with a tentative plan for next spring with this space. Bayron's landscaping team did the work and was efficient, clean, friendly and answered all my questions. We will be back! read more

We used Rutgers Landscape & Nursery to design and install our front yard landscaping and couldn't be happier with the results. Dave Smith carefully listened to what we wanted to accomplish and delivered on time and on budget. Everyone was easy to work with and accommodating, frequently checking in with us to ensure we were pleased with their progress and to answer any questions. Kudos and appreciation to Caesar and Luis. You are amazing! read more

The employees and managent do not wear masks here. Even inside. I will not be back. I watched an unmasked employee help an elderly woman, who was wearing two masks, put plants in her car. He was unmasked and to clearly made her uncomfortable. read more

Do not expect workers to be wearing masks, even inside. Regardless of your personal view on this, businesses should respect customers enough to wear a simple mask. read more

Joann and Byron and his crew were amazing Very honest with pricing and what we needed. Byron was meticulous with grading and planting. Would recommend them over and over! Thank you read more

We've had multiple great experiences with Rutgers this year. We have a house surrounded by open farmland/grassland and have our share of deer. In addition, the geology is difficult, with shale, clay and standing water in certain places. The employees at the nursery have provided outstanding advice and options. If they didn't have an answer at their fingertips, they always got back to us. We did pick up some Joe Pie weed for our watergarden and thoroughly enjoyed it all summer. During one of their sales, we purchased beautiful grasses and then went back and ordered five Little Moses Burning Bushes in 5 gallon pots. Planting them ourselves went well and they are beautiful. Every visit and phone call to the nursery was positive. Staff was helpful and definitely went the extra mile for us! - We highly recommend this nursery. read more

i had the opportunity to visit the nursery several times this summer. Each time I was immediately greeted and individually helped. My purchases were relatively minimal but the ENTIRE staff was gracious and accommodating. My sister is a regular customer and said this is the customer service she always receives. I have a local, friendly nursery but will definitely consider traveling the extra miles for Rutgers. BTW: They have an amazing selection of pots and many are frost resistant read more

The woman talking to us about landscape design for our yard told my husband his name was weird (it's not a traditional American name, if that makes it weird). She was also pretty dismissive of what we wanted and treated us like we were outsiders to the area that didn't understand that seasons change. My husband is from here. Just an unpleasant conversation. Enough so that we'd rather take our landscape design business elsewhere. read more

A neighbor recommended Rutgers Landscaping, and I eventually managed to get one of their guys to come out to discuss our landscaping project, which involved improving drainage, improved plantings, and patio work. He said he'd put together a design plan for us and then we could discuss getting the work done, but 3 months later I had heard nothing. After emailing, texting and calling various people at their office the guy came back to me and said "your project scope isn't a good fit for us right now". I guess that's fine, but why did he make us wait four months before telling us? I don't know. Maybe they're a good company, but they weren't for us. Totally wasted our time. read more

I asked for an estimate as I've been a customer for years, however, since it was outside their service area they refused. I needed the estimate for submission to my insurance company due to truck jumping a curb and damaging a tree. Simple request was refused. I have spent a smal fortune with them, but am now taking my business elsewhere as they couldn't even accomodate a simple request. read more

Been a customer since 2008! The nursery has most everything you'd want as natives. If not they will special order. Excellent quality and service. Dave Smith / Elmer have been our design/installation guys. In-house Robin is our go to. She is knowledgeable and resourceful. A forever customer. read more

We purchased 3 trees and the guys from Rutgers nursery : Salvador , Luis and I forgot the name of the third guy did a wonderful job! They were very courteous and professional! Job was done very fast and without making any mess... they also cleaned up around threes We were very pleased with their work! Thank you read more

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Amazing, friendly and knowledgeable staff that really aim to please . Plants are well care for and on great condition ! Can't say enough good about this nursery stock and staff! read more

Rutgers Landscape & Nursery - Nurseries & Gardening Near Me - Ringoes, New Jersey

No one had masks on. not to mention the customer service was atrocious. Was wondering for at least an hour and couldn't find anyone to help in the nursery. When I did go inside everyone was bad mouthing customers. read more

As a new home owner in who recently relocated from LA, CA., I was lost as to where I should buy trees and shrubs for our new home in New Hope. I was referred to Rutgers by one of my neighbors and I cannot say how grateful I am to have found such an amazing nursery with great customer service to boot! If I could give them 6 stars, I would! Chris A has gone out of his way to be the best of the best! read more

Rutgers work on landscape installations is good but nothing special, and the hassle of trying to get them to address installation issues is frustrating to say the least. They will say that they want you to be happy and that they stand behind their warranty, but they selectively address issues (either by dismissing concerns or failing to tell the installation team what needs to be done) and when they do address something, they send the same people back who made the mistake in the first place. Even when I escalated to the nursery manager, Jeff, I got nowhere and it caused more problems than it solved. The last insult was that they brought out the Techo-Bloc rep, Ryan, to tell me that there was no problem with their installation despite the pooling water, cracking border, and washed out sand shown in the pictures. You can judge the quality of their work for yourself, but I am staying away from Rutgers and Techo-Bloc for any future projects. Incidentally, we asked for a quote on natural stone during the project and said that we would prefer it to Techo-Bloc and the designer Kyle never gave it to us. He said that when he went to do the quote it was "too expensive" despite never asking me what our budget was and initially telling us it should not be that much more than Techo-Bloc. read more

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Horrible. Surprizingly disrespectful and totally annoying. Job not done. Promises to come up with ideas but fell flat. After a visit I would have to surmise that they weren't up for the job. I have no idea what they were thinking- maybe it was too hard? No imagination for how to handle the project. Unless you don't mind a very poor manner go elsewhere. read more

Hidden gem worth the trip, they have an incredible selection of curated succulents cultivated for zone 6 planting. Top quality plants, with careful attention to native species. Also, excellent customer service and knowledgeable staff willing to answer your questions. Be sure to visit their botanical cafe and kiddie sand pit!! You will be blown away by the designing genius. read more

Rutgers Nursery failed to complete the job and we had to hire another company to finish our property.

I went for advice after they told me to have my soil tested and one employee talked to us like we were idiots. I was going to have them design 2 garden beds but I will never go back or recommend them. read more

Excellent selection of trees and shrubs and very helpful staff. We bought most of our landscape plants here... they will deliver and plant. Look for the 30% off sales in early spring and late summer. Prices are not the lowest but the quality of their stock is some of the best I've seen. Thanks to Fran who helped us on our most recent trip. We will definitely be back. One additional tip... This place is on the northbound side of rt. 31/202 my gps keeps trying to send us through back roads to the southbound side. read more

I had a similar experience to one of the other reviewer's. I was concerned with drainage when installing a patio. I was told everything would be fine and I had nothing but problems. When I called, I was told the drainage issue could be fixed and I would need to pay more. The designer seemed inexperienced and not knowledgeable. I do not recommend them, unless you know exactly what you want and how it should be done. You cannot leave anything up to the company as they are not experts in the field. read more

Fascinating design, plants and amazing, professional customer service. This place is a day trip in itself. I am bookmarking so I remember to add it to the next date-day/night. read more

These are very nice pleople, very helpful. I think that their stock tends to be deep but not all that broad. But if you need a LOT of a plant or a bush, this is the place to go. They keep the plants well watered so you are buying decent material. They offer landscaping design services, just bring in some photos of your property and they can suggest a complete planting design (for a small charge). They also sell some Large plants and trees, much bigger than you will find most places. We purchased several good size trees from them three years ago and all are doing quite well. read more

I went here to get a plant for my friend. They had a very good selection of annuals. I got a plant and planter. They were so helpful they put the plant in the planter and wrapped it for me. It was very affordable! The cafe is so cute! read more

My company bought 32 trees from this company which they planted and within 2 years three trees died. I called and spoke to the owner and he stated that this was good that only three trees out of 32 died and it is passed the warranty period and I was "s_ _ _ out of luck". I did let it go for a little while and decided to call the "save a tree foundation". They stated that the trees that died because they were installed to deep. I called the owner again and he agreed to come take a look and that he could not believe the Save a Tree people and that he was more knowledgeable. We made an appointment and he did not show up. I called him two weeks later and he said because I live 40 miles away it is policy that he would visit within 3 weeks of the complaint. Bottom line is that I ripped the trees out and replaced them. After purchasing 32 trees and having Rutgers plant these trees you would think that the owner would at least try to accommodate the problem. Buyer Beware. Lastly, his employees are very nice. read more

Used their landscape designer and plants to replace damage from superstorm Sandy, also needed advice on drainage. The landscape design is rather plain doesn't look that nice, and the concept didn't really fit our home. The drainage solution made the problem worse. They didn't respond to repeated calls to return to fix problems. The landscape designer seemed inexperienced and was more interested in selling things than making an attractive design that fit into an existing landscape. Would not recommend. Plants are alright quality, if you are do-it-yourself. read more

About 6 years back we had paver steps installed in our new home. Over the past 2-3 years the steps began sagging and separating from the house. We didn't anticipate it would get as bad as it did. So when we finally contacted RL&N, we thought they would say.. sorry, too late, not our problem. But they came out, took a look and said..."yeah, that shouldn't have happened." They re-installed the steps without a charge and couldn't have been nice. THEY STAND BY THEIR WORK!!! read more

Wonderful friendly staff! We always go here every fall to get the end of the season deals. This year we were working with Ian and he came out to our house to offer design tips along with ideas of what sale plants were available. We can't thank Rutgers enough for helping us design our dream yard and offer amazing suggestions. read more

We went to Rutgers to get an initial proposal to build a patio for our house, and I have to say that the level of customer service they provided was really outstanding. They were able to work on various layout proposal for our patio, they sent various quotes and 3D layouts for us to get a visual which was very helpful. Rob did a excellent job taking care of our needs, he was patient as our decision process took a couple of more months before the final decision to start with the project. From start to finish, Rob was very courteous and very quick on getting back to us with multiple changes and adjustments to the project. Rutgers supported us on getting the township approvals as well that took some extra time. Once we signed the contract they quickly started the job, executed on the time frame that they had estimated. Their team of people did a great job while working in our house, professional, hard worker . At the end we were very satisfied with the job, they built a beautiful patio, according to the agreed specifications, they even made a few landscape changes we requested after the job was done. Very professional company, would definitely recommend it. Very focused on customer satisfaction. read more

purchased a expensive tree from them and it was planted property but its not doing well I have call several times and have even stop there and I was told that someone would contact me and they ever have called back and nobody ever showed up after several calls even though they said they would send somebody out to look at the tree ,actually the one time the person was not nice about me asking them if they could come over and look at it . this place is what customer service is not about I have bought a lot of plants from this company but that doesn't seem to matter. this place is just irresponsible with an attitude when it comes to following through read more