Brian W Folmer Landscaping & Garden Centre - Walkerton, Ontario

Kendra Batte

Have always had pleasant interactions with the owner who is also very knowledgeable. Great selection of plants and beautiful garden tour! Lovely golden retriever greeter as well.

Gladis Flatt

Folmer gardens is extensive and has some very interesting sections, we enjoyed visiting, especially the white garden and the lake gazebo as well as the Italian garden.
Some areas need a little work but understandable as it is the end of the flowering season.

Warren Dodds

Just bought fish there 5 koi fish!!! Love him (the owner) sadly he's closing down soon ? but the koi are very beautiful and he makes everything so personal!

Manny Rego

Bought a sod cutter from them $350 on my way there the changed the price to $400 and lied that it was never $350 i have proof i took screenshot and sent to my son asking him if he wanted to drive 3:1/2 hours to get it this is only the beginning

Sarah Bethany

I am SO thrilled to have found this local treasure only weeks ago. I have been searching high and low for ground cover such as Elfin Thyme, Creeping Thyme, Scotch Moss, and Woolly Thyme. No other nursery carried these locally!

The garden centre itself is surrounded by stunning gardens and pathways, ponds and a little waterfall frog pond. There are many unique and uncommon plants and shrubs I haven’t found elsewhere.

I just gave my ugly side-yard a makeover. Brian looked at my pictures, asked questions about my goals for my space and gave me amazing design recommendations for an otherwise neglected and ugly area of my yard. I’m thrilled with how it turned out. Neighbours are stopping and complimenting my new garden constantly—and one even asked if I do this for a living (lol, hardly. That’s all thanks to you, Brian!)

I’ve now visited 4x —by myself, with a neighbour, with my mom, with my son. Each time the owners and their dog Digger, have been warm and helpful, making themselves available for my questions as they care for plants nearby in a non-intrusive way.

I brought my son on one occasion who absolutely loved the frog pond and sat and looked for them for 20 straight minutes while I shopped. The owners joked with my son and were warm and friendly to him—leading me to believe that the previous family who left three negative reviews here on Google—were likely unwilling to accept responsibility for their children’s poor behaviour throwing rocks at the frogs in the pond.

These owners care deeply about nature (as evidenced by 108 manicured acres), about pollinators, the environment (using suppliers who are earth friendly) and animals. So it would make perfect sense to me that they would ask for a family throwing stones at frogs to leave the grounds. David killed Goliath with a single stone, am I right?

If your children are respectful and treat animals with care, you should have zero problems visiting their magnificent space (be it for a garden tour or the garden centre). My son LOVED going—(and he hates shopping, lol). I needed to address that, because as a small business owner myself, it really bothers me when customers are in the wrong, but then come for your business anyway.

To date, I have bought numerous ground cover, evergreens, shrubs, and grasses and ALL of them are thriving. I found the prices to be very fair for Ontario grown evergreens, and the quality A+. I can’t stop looking at my gorgeous new garden. You have a new customer for life! Thank you! <3

Jenn Jolivet

Beautifully maintained, quiet, dog-friendly gardens. Just when you think you're at the end, the path winds through a different way revealing more treasures. I love that the trails end at the garden center so you can pick a few favourites to take home with you! I asked Brian if any of the gorgeous cana lilies next to the gift shop were for sale and he said he didn't have any right now, but could take my info and contact me when they're ready to split. Very impressed, well worth the $8 admission. Will definitely return later in the season to see a new assortment of blooms.

Cathy King

Beautiful, unusual, and a must see. Brian was so friendly and informative. Will definitely be back. Be prepared for walking, with proper shoes, hat, bugspray and enjoy!

Audrey Ellis

I went to Folmer Gardens hoping for a nice day with my family enjoying flowers on a nice walk. The minute my family was out of the car I felt unwelcome at this place. The owner watching our every move. Not allowed to go anywhere and no waiting area this place was very restricted and I felt confined. He seemed very uptight and this made my anxiety even worse. My husband bought the season passes because we wanted to walk through the gardens and the debit machine seemed to work fine for that. However, before starting our walk we needed to wait for my mother and father in law to pay, but for some reason the debit machine was now not working, my husband tried his card again to pay for our parents , but it wouldn't work. Over 30 minutes of trying to get the machine to work and my 5 children were restless, and the owner was basically a ticking time bomb just waiting for us to do something wrong so he could kick us out. He accused each of my children who were not confined to a stroller of some silly infraction, I want to make it very clear that my children did not damage, wreck or break anything in any way. After my oldest son with ADHD touched a bouncy Garden ornament in the giftshop he started yelling at my mother and my son. Had my son damaged the ornament I would have done the responsible thing and paid for it, plus I spoke to my son about keeping his hands to himself( which he struggles with due to ADHD) I want to point out that yelling can be just as bad and hurtful to children as hitting them and this man ( supposedly the owner)was not in anyway caring about children. We left and will not be recommending this place to anyone. My children all left crying and my mother was not able to sleep and felt sick for over 3 days due to the way we were treated and the stress from how this man verbally attacked us.