O'Donal's Nursery Garden Center Serving Southern Maine

Our Vision At O'Donal's Nurseries our goal is to grow gardeners for life by sharing our passion and knowledge of plants and gardening. We strive to be a destination experience providing the visitor with an exciting selection of quality, hardy, healthy plants and garden-related products.

How to find us A bit of history Our knowledgeable staff

Our guarantee Quantity discounts Our return policy

click to enlarge		From US Rt. 1 Turn west onto Route 114 at Oak Hill in Scarborough. Follow for 6 miles to intersection with Route 22. Turn left and we are on the left.
From US Route 295 In Portland, take exit 5B Congress Street West. Follow Congress Street (Route 22) for 8 miles. Shortly after the junction with Route 114 we are on the left. From Route 302 At Windham rotary take Route 202 west to downtown Gorham. Turn left on to Route 114; follow 114 to junction of Route 22. Turn Left. Look for us on the right side about 3/4 mile. From I-95 Take exit 42. At light, turn left onto Rt 9. At 2nd light (Shaws Supermarket) turn left onto Rt 114; follow to junction of Route 22. Turn Left. Look for us on the left side of the road.

O'Donal's Nurseries, Inc. has been in existence since the 1950's. Begun as a tree service company, the present company took form after the garden center site was purchased from the Jackson family in 1959. The Jackson family had operated a nursery since 1850, originally named Forest City Nursery. Royce O'Donal was involved in landscaping and arboriculture while restructuring the overgrown growing areas. As the nursery took shape it required more time away from outside jobs and O'Donal's reduced their landscaping services. Today, O'Donal's is a complete nursery stock supplier to the retail and landscape trade, and performs no landscaping service other than landscape design.

The O'Donal's family moved to their new home in 1978 and the garden center evolved as it is today. Complete renovation and an addition to the original building in 1985 complete the transformation from dwelling to the office/ store complex that now anchors the company.

The 10 acres the garden center sits on was originally used for field production. It slowly evolved into container growing/holding areas. Expansion of the growing fields occurred over many years. In about 1972, nine acres of fields across from the garden center were leased and prepared for planting. The 40 acre Deering fields were purchased in 1984, and first planted in 1985. The addition of these fields enabled O'Donal's to produce plants on a more reliable production schedule.

You would expect to find Certified Nursery Professionals at any nursery or garden center, and yes, there are many among us that have earned that distinction.

However, that person may also have a Bachelors of Fine Art degree in Painting, have a Ph.D. in Education, a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, geography, women's studies, and certainly plant and soil sciences.

What brings us all together to work at O'Donal's Nurseries is our love of plants. We would like to share our passion of the vegetative world with you and look forward to the stories and knowledge that you bring to us.

We all enjoy helping gardeners grow.

Hardy plants are guaranteed for 2 year. Tender plants are guaranteed for the current growing season --these are designated by a bright red label.

One year plant replacement. Hardy outdoor trees and shrubs purchased from O'Donal's Nurseries will live at least one year from purchase date. If at the end of the year's guarantee, a plant's health is questionable, we may extend the guarantee. Because we sell plants to three different hardiness zones (each gardener has their own microclimate), we are unable to guarantee the winter survivability of the following list of tender plants.

If at any time your plant(s) do not look healthy, bring a sample into the Garden Shoppe as soon as possible. Please call if it is not possible to come in.

If the guaranteed plant does no survive, bring back the dead plant with the sales receipt and we will replace your plant with a new one of equal value. All replacements are one time only.

No replacement will be given if the plant failure is due to owner neglect, inadequate maintneance, severe weather (such as high winds, drought, ice storms, etc.) pet or insect damage or vandalism; in other words, things we cannot control.

The guarantee is void if the full payment of the purchase is not made within 30 days.

Plants sold at discount or on sale may not be eligible for replacement. Please ask.

Tender Plants of Questionable Hardiness
Annuals Akebia Azalea Rosebud Baltic Ivy Beautyberry Blue Mist Spirea Broom Boxwood Buddleia Clematis Cornus - Florida, - Kousa - Rutgers Hybrids Cryptomeria Dawn Redwood Deutzia Ferns Golden Chain Tree Ground Covers	Heath Heather Herbs Hibiscus Hollies Hydrangea, Oakleaf Japanese Andromeda Japanese Maples Japanese Scholar Tree Kerria Oregon Grape Holly Ornamental Grasses Paperbark Maple Parrotia Perennials Pyracantha Redbud Rose Daphne Roses Saucer Magnolia - Magnolia Sieboldii	Seven Son Flower Smokebush Sourwood Stewartia Strawberries Styrax Sweet Cherries Sweet Gum Sweetshrub Tamarix Taxodium Trumpet Vine Tulip Tree Umbrella Pine Vegatables Walnut Water Plants Weeping Cherries Weeping Katsura Witch Hazel 'Arnold Promise' Yew, English
The above list may not be complete, please note the RED TAG that will be on plants that do not carry the guarantee.

We are pleased to offer this volume discount! Receive 10% off when spending $500.00 or more during the calendar year!

Purchases made at different times during the calendar year may be combined. It is the customer's responsibility to retain receipts and keep a running total. You will be given a discount card when you reach each level of discount.

Become a People, Places & Plants Discount Card holder (formerly the New England Garden Club) and receive a 10 percent discount at O'Donal's Nurseries. You'll also receive a subscription to America's best regional gardening magazine, People, Places & Plants.

Because of the perishable nature of plants, we will accept the return of a plant within 10 days, with your receipt, for an exchange. The plant must be in its original condition and kept well watered on a daily basis until the return is made. Returns will be credited toward an exchange or toward a gift certificate.