Since 2009 · Conneaut, Ohio

Grown slowly, planted carefully, tended like family.

Brendco is the quiet little greenhouse off Bingamon Road where Northeast Ohio gardeners come for native perennials, heirloom vegetable starts, honest advice, and a wheelbarrow of mulch that actually smells like the woods.

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16+Years rooted in Conneaut

340+Plant varieties on hand

4.9★From neighbors who came back

What we do best

A real greenhouse, not a big-box garden aisle

We grow most of what we sell, hand-pick the rest from regional growers, and we'll never push you a plant that won't survive the Lake Erie wind.

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Nursery & Greenhouse

Hardy perennials, native shrubs, fruit trees, and seasonal annuals — propagated on-site in our four-bay heated greenhouse.

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Garden Design

Cottage borders, pollinator beds, foundation plantings — Cruz walks the property with you, sketchpad in hand, no charge for the first visit.

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Bulk Landscape Supply

Hardwood mulch, screened topsoil, river stone, and compost — delivered by the cubic yard anywhere within 25 miles of the shop.

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Seed & Starts

Open-pollinated tomato, pepper, and squash varieties — many saved from our own kitchen garden a few rows behind the greenhouse.

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Planting & Install

Two-person crew, real shovels, no franchise script. We plant what we sold you and we stand behind it for a full year.

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Workshops

Saturday morning sessions from April to October — pruning, seed-starting, dahlia tubers, winter sowing, kids' planting days.

Rows of seedlings in a wooden greenhouse

Our story, in short

A second-generation grower with dirt under his nails.

Cruz Finley grew up helping his grandmother sell tomato starts off a folding table at the end of the driveway. In 2009 he leased two acres on Bingamon Road, put up a single hoop house, and named the place after the family dog. Sixteen years later there are four greenhouses, a small crew, and a waiting list for spring dahlias — but it's still the same folding table out front in April.

Independently owned and operated — no franchise, no chain.
Members of the Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association.
Pesticide-free propagation in our own greenhouses.
We give back 2% of every season to the Conneaut Public Library garden.

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Neighbors talking

What folks around the lake have to say

"I've bought hostas from Cruz for eight straight springs. They always come back twice as big the next year. The man knows shade."

Diane M.Ashtabula, OH

"The greenhouse smells like my grandmother's mudroom. I came in for a single basil plant and left with a wheelbarrow."

Robert T.Conneaut, OH

"Cruz designed our front border in twenty minutes on a napkin. Three years later it still looks like a magazine cover."

Sarah & Paul K.North Kingsville, OH

The growing calendar

Stop by when the season's right

Early Spring

Cold-hardy pansies, pussy willow, onion sets, seed potatoes, the first batches of lettuce starts.

Late Spring

Hanging baskets, tomato & pepper starts, native perennials, bare-root fruit trees.

Summer

Cut flowers, herb pots, dahlias in bloom, fall vegetable starts ready in late July.

Autumn

Mums, ornamental kale, pumpkins from our own field, garlic for fall planting, dormant trees.