In my hometown of Oviedo, Florida is a fun and exciting nursery. Not only does it have a wide variety of plants for commercial and every day gardeners, but it also offers a unique feature that other nurseries do not. A Butterfly Experience that explores various host plants, nectar plants, and habitats. The information given is very informative and encourage everyone from toddlers to adults on the importance.... and joy.... of growing a landscape for butterflies.

Outside of butterfly gardening, Lukas Nursery has a lot to offer. The nursery is well organized with employees readily available to not only help locate plants in this vast nursery, but also help suggest plants for every day gardening needs. Employees who are in these roles are generally certified horticulturists. Meaning they know a thing or two about a thing or two. They are very helpful and very professional.

Lukas Nursery has a wide variety of plants. From regular ornamentals to flowering annuals to a wide variety of edible plants... they have it all. When you first walk in you will find a pole barn like building that houses the customer service desk and the check out counters. Inside here you will also find fertilzers, soil ammendmends, seed starting kits, pesticides, and herbicides. To the left of this area is a "barn" in which they keep pots, bamboo stakes, and other decorative yard art. Around this area are loads and loads of pots. Decorative pots and fountain setups. These decorative pots can be quite pricey. But, they have pots that you cannot find anywhere else in the area.

As you venture farther to the left of the entrance, you enter an area of normal ornamental landscaping plants. Plants like podacarpus, viburnums, crotons, and more.

As you continue the joureny around the nursery you will eventually find yourself looking at the wide variety of fruit trees. Here you will see a wide variety of citrus such as several varieties of oranges, lemon, and lime. There will also be avacado, starfruit, olive tree, loquat, jabuticaba, mango, peach, pear, persimmon, moringa, blackberry, blueberry, grape, raspberry, and much more. There are not many places that rival the variety of fruiting trees that Lukas Nursery has to offer.

Wrapping around from here, you will quickly arrive at several selection of shade trees.

Further on you will end up at flowering bushes and eventually at a decent variety of roses.

If you steer left, you will enter a massive green house that includes succulents and other tropical plants.

Bypassing this you can venture right and see their selection of annuals just next to a decent selection of edible plants. Their edible plants come from the same growers as most big box stores. You can typically find varieties of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, mint, spearmint, oregano, thyme, rosemary, basil, culantro, cilantro, spinach, lettuce, zuccini, squash, and much more.

Between this area and the barn containing decorative pots you will find their "shade plants" area.

Back to the orientation of the entrance, going towards the middle right you will find ground covers. Plants like society garlic, perennial peanut and other small clumping grasses. Further in are ornamental grasses such as fountain grass and muhly grass.

A new addition to the back right corner is the Florida Native section. They procure most of these plants from my favorite nursery - Green Isle Gardens. So anything you buy in this native section was purchased wholesale from Green Isle Gardens. I have heard, however, that Lukas Nursery sprays and treats these native plants as soon as they arrive. This is a big turn off for me.

Behind the native section is a lot of flowering vines.

To the right of here is more shade trees that flower.

Another area near here is flowering bushes.

Closer to the parking area is the Butterfly Experience. All the plants near this building are supposedly pollinator plants. You will be emersed in the amount of plants in this area. Mostly non-native, but widely attractive flowering plants.

Most of my dissapointment with this nursery is in this section. Here you will see invasive plants such as Mexican Petunias, invasive lantanas, invasive porterweeds, non-native pipevines, and much more. Although these plants do draw attention from pollinators, and butterflies, they are listed as invasive and therfore should not be sold....bought...planted.... or even encouraged.... in my opinion.

Outside of Lukas Nursery's willingness to sell invasive plants, this is a decent nursery for those shopping for foodscape and native plants. I warn those who wish to buy plants for butterflies due to their unofficial tendency to spray their plants.

Walking through Lukas Nursery really is a joy. I find it hard not to spend money here because they tend to have everything I want.

Lukas does offer a warranty on all the plants they sell.

They do offer contractor pricing but it does not come with a warranty. For me, the discount is not worth the void in warranty.

For all you fellow vets out there Lukas will honor a 10% discount with military I.D. Another reason I shop there.

Finally, Lukas offers a rewards program where you earn points towards future purchases based on previous purchases. For my landscaping business, this is big. Often times, this negates the contractor prices and still allows me to buy plants with warranty. That way I get some discount while being able to offer clients a warranty on their plants.

If you ever get a chance, make sure you stop by Lukas Nursery in Oviedo, Fl and check out all they have to offer.