We strive to be your favorite local garden center.

Our key focus is to provide you with healthy, thriving plants in a community retail location near to you, to ensure your gardening success.

We offer annual flowers, perennial plants, vegetables (from beans to zucchini), herbs, ground covers (including Steppables), vines, roses, shrubs, trees, and more!

Every year, we look for new varieties, in addition to the old favorites, to provide you with the best selection for your garden, whether it be a container planting, window box, or a border in your yard.

We would like to help you make your garden bloom! Our staff of gardening professionals are ready, and eager to assist you with the best choices of annual flowers, perennial plants, vines, shrubs, and trees for your garden areas. We take into consideration the available sunlight exposure in your garden, soil type, and your personal gardening expectations to suggest the best choices to meet your needs.

We also look forward to enhancing your home landscaping with affordable shrubs, and small flowering trees for the "do-it-yourself" landscapers.

Our healthy, shrubs and trees come in manageable sizes to make home landscaping improvements an easy weekend activity.

We continue to expand our vegetable and herb plant selections. We want to help you grown your own fresh food, so you can enjoy their healthful benefits.

We have brought in many heirloom variety tomatoes, as well. It is always rewarding to grow your own garden fresh tomatoes.

In addition, we also continue to look for ethnic variety herbs and vegetables to meet the requests of Chicago's diverse communities.

Why not consider planting a vegetable garden with your children (or grandchildren) for a rewarding family-time experience?

Annuals

Annual flowers add almost constant color to your flower garden, container plantings and window boxes during the summer season. Their long bloom time make them exciting editions to any garden. We have old favorites and new varieties - focussing on providing you the best flowers at affordable prices. The list below contains most of our annual plant stock, but if you stop in one of our local garden center locations, you may be surprised by some varieties that are too new to have been noted here.

ageratum
alyssum
amaranthus
begonias
browallia
calendula
celosia
centaurea
cleome
cosmos
dahlia
dianthus
diascia
dusty miller
euphorbia
flowering cabbage
flowering kale
gazania
geraniums (We have ivy geraniums!)
gerber daisies (such happy little flowers)
gomphrena
gypsophila
helianthus (sunflower)
heliotropium
hollyhock (biennial)
impatiens (New Guinea & double, too)
ipomoea (morning glory vine)
lantana
limonium (statice)
lobelia
nasturtium
nemesia
nicotiana
nierembergia
nigella
osteospermum
pansies
petunias (including: double flowering, cascading, & the ever popular Wave)
portulaca (moss rose)
salvia (firecracker and victoria)
snap dragon (small to tall)
straw flower
tagetes (marigolds - from small to tall and white, yellow, orange & red)
thunbergia
torenia
verbena
vinca
viola
zinnia (several varieties)

Note: Our annual flower selection varies from year to year. Please let us know if you are looking for something in particular - contact@cloversgardencenter.com

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Perennials

Year after year, perennials provide lasting beauty in the garden. We offer old favorites and hot, new varieties to keep your garden blooming summer after summer. Consider planting perennial flowers as unique specimen plants in your annual flower beds, or put in a perennial garden of drought tolerant native plants to conserve water.

achillea (yarrow)
alcea rosea (hollyhock - biennial)
alchemilla mollis (lady's-mantle)
anemone pulsatilla (pasqueflower)
aquilegia (columbine)
armeria (thrift)
artemisia (silver mound)
asarum (wild ginger)
aster
astilbe
brunnera macrophylla
campanula
cerastium tomentosum (snow-in-summer)
chelone (pink turtlehead)
chrysanthemum
coreopsis
delphinium
dianthus
dicentra (bleeding heart)
digitalis (foxglove)
echinacea (coneflower)
geranium (cranesbill)
geum reptans
guara
gypsophila (baby's-breath)
hemerocallis (daylily)
hesperis matronalis (dame's-rocket)
heuchera
hosta (too many of these shade lovers to list)
iris
kniphofia uvaria (red hot poker)
lamiastrum
leontopodium alpinum (Edelweiss)
liatris (gay feather)
linum (flax)
lobelia
lupines
monarda
myosotis (forget-me-not)
nepeta
papaver (poppy)
phlox
penstemon
peony
perovskia atriplicifolia (Russian Sage)
physostegia
platycodon (balloon flower)
polemonium (Jacob's ladder)
potentilla
primula (primrose)
pulmonaria
rudbeckia
santolina (lavender cotton)
saponaria (rock soapwort)
scabiosa (pincushion flower)
sedum (many varieties)
stokesia (Stokes' aster)
tradescantia (spiderwort)
veronica
yucca

Note: Our perennial flower selection varies from year to year. Please let us know if you are looking for something in particular - contact@cloversgardencenter.com

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Vegetables

We focus on providing you the best selection of vegetable plants at affordable prices. We sell Papa Joe's, and heirloom variety tomatoes, in addition to our own Michigan Greenhouse grown plants. We are always adding new ethnic vegetable choices to meet the requirements of our diverse Chicago area community. Vegetable garden plots can be so rewarding - growing your own food. It is a wonderful, family activity for parents and children to work together at a common goal - getting children to eat their vegetables. :-)
The added bonus: you can keep your vegetable food source organic by controlling how you tend you garden.

broccoli (several types)
cabbage (several types)
cauliflower
celery
cucumbers (several types)
eggplant (several types)
green beans (several types)
kale
kohlrabi
leeks
lettuce (several types)
okra
onion sets
peppers (mild to HOT, HOT, HOT! We have them!)
pumpkins (several types)
squash (several types)
swiss chard
tomatillos
tomatoes (too many varieties to list)

We have cantaloupe, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries ,grapes & watermelons, too!

Note: Our vegetable selection varies (and grows) from year to year. Please let us know if you are looking for something in particular - contact@cloversgardencenter.com

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Herbs

Fresh garden herbs truly enhance the flavor of home cooking. Some herbs are perennials, like chives, mint, and thyme - plant them once, and enjoy them for many years. They are delicious editions to any garden. Yes, any garden. Herbs like pineapple sage, bronze fennel, lemon grass, and beebalm (monarda) make attractive additions to a garden border, or container planting...think outside the herb garden and vegetable plot.

Parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme...&
anise
basil (several varieties)
beebalm
catnip
chamomile
chives
cilantro, coriander
dill
fennel (bronze, too)
garlic chives
Greek oregano
Italian oregano
lavender (several varieties)
lemon balm
lemon grass
lemon verbena
marjoram
mint (spearmint, peppermint, chocolate mint, catmint & more)
oregano
parsley (curly & flat leaf)
patchouli
rosemary (trees, creeping, & upright)
sage (tricolor, purple, pineapple, & plain)
savory (summer and winter)
scented pelargonium (including citronella plant)
sorrel
stevia
thyme (too many to list...as we are out of thyme - tee hee)

Note: Our herb selection varies (and grows) from year to year. Please let us know if you are looking for something in particular - contact@cloversgardencenter.com

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Roses

We carry quality roses. Our rose selection includes:

climbing
flower carpet
floribunda
grandiflora
hybrid tea
miniture
& shrub
We have non-stop and knock-out roses, too!

Note: Our rose selection varies from year to year. Please let us know if you are looking for something in particular - contact@cloversgardencenter.com

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Grasses

We carry a selection of decorative, annual and perennial grasses. Most grasses are drought-tolerant, require little maintenance, and add vertical interest to containers, and garden beds.

blue fescue (perennial)
bulbous oat grass (perennial)
feather reed grass (perennial)
fiber optic grass (annual)
fountain grass (annual)
leather leaf sedge (annual)
love grass (perennial)
maiden grass (perennial)
northern sea oats (perennial)
ribbon grass (fast spreading perennial)
variegated silver grass (perennial)

Note: Our selection of grasses varies from year to year. Please let us know if you are looking for something in particular - contact@cloversgardencenter.com

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Ground Covers

We have a nice selection of ground covers which are great for rock gardens or to cover those awkward garden spots that are often times left bare. Our selection includes plants for both sun & shade.

ajuga
candytuft
cat mint
chamomile (sun)
coral bells
cotoneaster
cranesbill (geranium)
creeping phlox
creeping thyme (sun)
dianthus (sun)
Irish moss (shade)
lady's-mantle
lamb's-ears
lily-turf
lily-of-the-valley
miscellaneous spreading evergreens
pachysandra
rock cress
sedum (several varieties for sun)
Scotch moss (shade)
spotted dead nettle
spurge (shade)
Steppables (Yes, we have them!)
sweet woodruff (shade)
vinca (periwinkle - shade)
wild ginger
wintercreeper (shade)
wintergreen (shade)
wooly thyme (sun)

Note: Our selection of ground covers varies from year to year. Please let us know if you are looking for something in particular - contact@cloversgardencenter.com

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Vines

We carry a selection of annual and perennial vines. Some vines look great trailing out of a container, window box, or garden wall, and others make fantastic climbers - up trellises or walls. Ask you local Clover's Garden Center professional which type of vine would be best for you.

black-eyed susan vine - Thunbergia alata(annual)
bougainvillea (tropical)
clematis(perennial)
climbing rose various varieties
English ivy (annual & perennial varieties)
honeysuckle (perennial)
Licorice (annual)
jasmine(tender - annual in zone 5)
mandevilla (tropical)
moon flower (annual)
morning glory (annual in zone 5)
sweet potato (annual)
trumpet creeper (Perennial)
winter creeper (perennial)
wire vine (annual in zone 5)

Note: Our vine selection varies from year to year. Please let us know if you are looking for something in particular - contact@cloversgardencenter.com

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Shrubs

Shrubs add a more permanent structure to landscaping and structures. Evergreens are good foundation plantings, as they continue to have color, even during the winter months. Consider yellow twig or red twig dogwoods for winter scape appeal. Then there are the flowering shrubs, their size usually larger than most perennial flowers, make them excellent candidates for specimen plants - especially the ones that produce unique flowers - like rhododendrums. We carry quality Monrovia shrubs in addition to shrubs from local Michigan growers.

Note: Our shrub selection varies from year to year. Please let us know if you are looking for something in particular - contact@cloversgardencenter.com

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Trees

We carry a selection of small flowering trees and evergreens (We sell sculpure pruned evergreens).
Some of the types we usually have for sale include:
Bradford Pear (Pyrus calleryana "Bradford")
Dogwood (Cornus florida)
Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
Weeping Cherry (Prunus suggiertella)

Note: Our tree selection varies from year to year. Please let us know if you are looking for something in particular - contact@cloversgardencenter.com

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