Owned by long term, highly experienced gardener! Well worth the stop to see a full range of possible plantings. Ask for Dave.

Buyers be aware that this place sells dead grasses and plants! I bought 12 grass sods rolled on plastic from Wakeman's white birch nursery and upon installation we found two grass sods were completely dead so I brought it back to Wakeman for a refund. The employee there took away the dead grass sods but the owner on the phone instructed casher that they don't do refund, which means you're out of luck as buyers if they sell you dead plants & grasses & flowers! I find it hard to believe that this local business can get away by ripping customers because trumbull/monroe is a very good community! Please do yourself a favor and save any potential headache by going to other nurseries in the area! unbelievable terrible customer services! read more

DON'T BUY FROM HERE. The lady on the phone said their topsoil is very good and people come back all the time because of it's good condition. I trusted her and ordered 5 yards. After it rained all you see on the surface is small stones. Due to all the stones, none of the grass was able to grow. The owner blames the heat but I had lawn doctor seed and fertilize my yard and they say it's from the stones. Took me hours to remove all the stones. Will buy better topsoil from somewhere else. read more

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I Went to White Birch Nursery yesterday and i had the best experience i ever had at a Nursery . Everyone was so accommodating , and they couldn't of been nicer. What a pleasure! . They have the most extensive selection of Trees and Shrubs I've ever seen , and prices were great . I picked out a small tree , too big to put in my SUV , so Dave ( the owner ) offered to deliver it to my home within 1hr . That's the kind of hands on service that people appreciate . There's no reason for me to ever shop anywhere else . EXCELLENT EXPERIENCE T Coughlin Trumbull CT read more

This was Wakeman's Garden Center for years. The new owners took over about 1 year ago. The seem nice enough although there are rarely customers there. A huge turn off and a reason I will not return is that they offer no refunds for any reason. I bought a few bags of mulsh and discovered it was more like topsoil. I returned them and had to wait 3 weeks until they got in the correct colored pine bark. I will not return. read more

New to the area and wood burning fireplaces, I went in looking to buy firewood and ask for advice. I bought a decent amount of firewood and was told it was "good to go." Been trying to light fires with wet, unseasoned, hissing, smoking and very large logs ever since. No customers were there and I guess I can't return the wood seeing that other reviewers couldn't return their items. I had better luck at Home Depot! read more

I'm disappointed to be leaving this review, but I feel like people should be aware of my experience so it doesn't happen to them. Back in April I went to Wakemans to purchase 3 white hydrangea plants. They only had two in stock, but promised they would order the last one for me. Excited, I purchased the two places to for $90 each and planted them. The woman who helped me was very knowledgeable but did scold an employee in front of me, which was very awkward. A couple weeks later I called to follow up on the other plants and she hadn't ordered it. I called again, once a week, for the next couple weeks and the owner called me back, great right! Well he told me they no longer could get the plant from the grower, well no shit it's been weeks now, but told me he would call to see what he could do. I NEVER heard back from him after reaching out multiple times. Like really?! I'm a new home owner with a big gardening project and I would have bought more plants in the future. But wait.. there's more here. So my hydrangeas bloomed and guess what, one isn't the right plant! It's a pink flower. I texted this information to the owner and yet again, no response. No I have 2 of the 3 plants I wanted, one isn't even the right plant, and they have done NOTHING to reconcile my experience. I hate to be the person to go on Facebook and leave a review, but without a method of actually talking to this establishment I figured this was the only way for other people to be aware of the lack organization and follow up with their customers, especially after I paid a premium for the wrong plant. Lastly I was referred to this place being told they had great plants, great employees, etc. I'm sad I didn't have that experience because if it went differently I would have been a lifelong customer. So beyond disappointed!! Pictures of plants and labels are in the comments. read more

Rarely in my travels have I met a business owner with more integrity and genuine interest in helping out a customer than the owner of Earth First Nursery. I used to live in the area years ago when the nursery was named Wakeman's and preferred that name. When talking with Dave Benjamin, the owner, it doesn't take long to appreciate his knowledge base. This is the type of business I like to go to where not only do you get a great product but you can tap into expert advice. When I was in Connecticut I'd snap a photo of the area of my yard, give Dave a general description of what I was hoping for then ask his advice - Dave would usually suggest something far better than I had in mind. He has saved me numerous times from planting in the wrong area and was always willing to provide pragmatic, spot-on advice whenever I had a problem with a plant. Just like Beata E. I had a problem with some blueberry bushes in one portion of my yard but not another, Dave asked about the soil pH, I checked and he was right -- where the bushes thrived it was the right pH but was too high where the plants had issues. He advised how to correct it, I followed his advice and, no surprise, it worked. He seems to really love helping and when I stopped by sometime later, he asked how my blueberry plants were doing - and seemed to really care. This is not a Home Depot or Walmart type place where you just buy a plant, I consider Earth First as a resource where you benefit from their knowledge and experience. I think Dave said his father used to own the business and that he went to college for a degree in horticulture to work at his father's nursery - pretty impressive. Now that I've moved and am living in California, I'm hoping to find the Wakeman's equivalent out here. (btw, I don't think there are new owners, just a different name) read more

We hired Dave Benjamin of Earth First/White Birch to do an extensive landscaping project on our property a couple of years ago after we built an addition to our home. Dave was full of promises but severely lacking on delivery. His idea of landscape design was to load a truck up with very expensive plants and order his employees to plant them wherever - not paying attention to the amount of light the plants require or whether the location was on our irrigation system. He and his employees planted very small, immature plants in the heat of a very dry summer. Some plants survived, but many did not. Although some of this could be attributed to a lack of rain, in many cases, the plants that died were right next to ones that survived so I doubt it was all due to watering. Further, we have an irrigation system, so again, I doubt it was all due to water. In addition to the multitude of dead plants that Dave refused to replace, he made many mistakes that he refused to remedy. For starters, he planted grass seed in two large sections of our property, but included in the hay he provided was a permanent, invasive weed seed that grew out of control and was impossible to get rid of. Dave refused to fix the problem so we had to hire someone else to spray RoundUp on the affected areas and reseed - at our expense. Dave also tore out many of our beautiful, established plantings without our consent only so he could replace them with expensive plants from his nursery (many of which later died). Also, without checking with us, he decided to cut off the lowest branches of a couple of umbrella pines that were already existing on our property. Unfortunately, he cut too much off and since the branches don't regenerate, the trees looked ridiculous - almost like telephone poles. He admitted he made a mistake, but refused to replace the trees. We had to replace them ourselves at our expense. He also decided to plant an herb garden in a shaded area of our property but in order to do so ripped out beautiful, mature hydrangea and lilacs, again without our consent. He refused to replace the plants he destroyed. He also moved a beautiful, established PG hydrangea to another area on our property without our consent. It was one of my favorite trees, but unfortunately it is now dead because of the move and because its new location offered too little light. On another occasion, one of his employees burned portions of our lawn by not properly diluting the chemicals. Although he did fix the problem in the front yard, other sections of the lawn in the back were left dead and yellow. I wish we never hired Dave Benjamin. After spending tens of thousands of dollars on Dave, our yard has never looked worse. read more

We purchased over $8,000 worth of plantings from Dave/Earth First. All of the plants were immature and half died. We do not have any color because they did not flower. All in we invested over $10,000 with labor and we are getting the whole job redone with what we want, not what Dave said we must have. Don't waste your time with Earth First! read more

I love this nursery. They have the best selection of trees, and extremely knowledgeable staff. These people really know their products. Their prices are very good. I shop around, but I keep returning there. read more

We purchased several bushes from them last fall. They were decently priced so that's good. However one of the bushes died after just a few months and they don't offer any type of credit or anything. All of the other bushes are thriving well so don't think it was a watering issue on our part. read more