Exciting Times at Johnson's!
Wichita's favorite hometown garden center is going through some exciting changes this year! We have a newly-forged relationship with Home & Garden Showplace, a division of True Value Company, the wholesale cooperative to retailers nationwide.
What does this mean for you? You'll have enhanced selection, and better pricing on lawn, garden, and outdoor living products. While offering the same expert advice and exceptional plant material, partnering with Home & Garden Showplace enables us to combine our purchasing power with 250 other independent retailers across the nation.
Johnson's Garden Centers is the same family-owned, local business that so many have grown to love, and will continue to bring you the best quality service and products in town.
Wichita's 4th Generation garden center started as a small fruit and vegetable stand in the 1920s on the outskirts of town at the corner of Douglas and West street in Wichita, KS. As the business grew, Harold Johnson, with his father Orie, bought 5 acres of land on west 13th street, and opened Johnson's Garden Center. This location is still operating today! With the ever changing demands of the customers, and the surrounding neighborhood growing by leaps and bounds, Harold and Orie decided they needed to renovate and expand the current location, and finally had to add another location in the 1970s to accommodate customers on both sides of Wichita.
This second location was opened at Central and Edgemoore, and was later relocated to the current east location, near the corner of 21st and Woodlawn in the spring of 1983. In 1995, Johnson's added 2 more locations, a seasonal/flower shop in Derby (which closed in 1996), and the current location at 802 N. Ridge Rd. Today, Johnson's continues to operate out of the three locations, online, and also operate a landscape distribution center, serving landscape companies not only locally, but around the state as well.
