Sandy's Plants, Inc.

• 46+ yearsIn Mechanicsville since 1979^[1]
• Family business^[1]

Sandy's Plants began in Mechanicsville in 1979 after a local garden center buyer noticed creeping phlox that Sandy McDougle had saved and lined out at her family's new home. Her children, Ryan and Mitzi, helped dig and deliver the first plants before school and after school.

The official history says the business grew from four production beds into a family-operated nursery with more than 1,500 perennial varieties across over 30 acres. Sandy's daughter Mitzi is CEO, son-in-law J.R. is CFO, and Sandy continues evaluating rare and unusual perennials for regional growing conditions.

Retail customers can visit the working nursery during published business hours, use golf carts and the nursery map to find plants, and compare mature examples in the display gardens. The nursery also supplies landscapers and garden centers in multiple states; retail plant sales are on-site rather than online or by mail order.

• On-site retail perennial sales
• Wholesale perennial supply for garden centers and landscapers
• Native and regionally suitable plants
• Rare and unusual perennial varieties
• Herbs, ornamental grasses, groundcovers, and vines
• STEPABLES groundcover varieties
• Plant finder and perennial catalog
• Display gardens and mature-plant comparisons
• Commercial account ordering

Known for: More than 1,500 perennial varieties grown across over 30 acres · Family operation in Mechanicsville since 1979 · Outdoor container growing informed by regional Zone 7 conditions · Rare, unusual, native, deer-resistant, and drought-tolerant plant choices · Neonicotinoid-free growing practices published by the nursery

As published by the business^[2]. Call ahead on holidays.