Ginkgo Gardens

Laurie Zabala

I came to browse. It's ok. A bit too hyped from the reviews. I was expecting it to be bigger. Average selection of indoor & outdoor plants. Annoying mosquitoes flying around especially in the indoor plant section. I looked around for probably less than 10 minutes & already got bitten.

Godden Garden

My favorite plant shop in D.C. so far!

Valeria Chavez

This review is hard to write because the staff was incredibly friendly and really helpful throughout my visit. However, I find this plant shop to be quite overrated. I cannot speak for the outdoor plants but the indoor / houseplant selection was quite limited and included almost no rare/tropical plants. Most if not all the pots in the store were dirty and/or had spider webs not to mention the colony of mosquitoes living on their wall of cash pots / plastic nursery pots.

Marty Mueller

I contracted with Gingko Gardens in Spring 2022 to design and implement a 350 sq. ft. private urban roof garden at my condo near Catholic University with a budget of no more than $6,000. The project, while straightforward enough, had one huge catch: there was no water source on the roof! Landscape designer Thomas Kapfer's brilliant solution was to create the roof top deck garden around something quite new on the market, a "self-watering planter" from Canada. My large rectangular planters have a water reservoir in the bottom of the planter than can hold 20 gallons of water for about 6 weeks, so no need for regular watering for long periods of time even when there is no rain. The planters are filled with a variety of sun-loving, drought-resistant,sweet-smelling perennials, such as Russian sage, catmint, butterfly plants, hummingbird flowers, grasses and 2 vines, honeysuckle and a tangerine trumpet vine. I plan on enjoying this garden, which took about 5 months from first contact on the shop's web site to final installation, for years to come. And I am sure it has significantly enhanced the value of my condo when it comes time to sell - not an unimportant consideration these days.