Shopping in Maumee

Peanut Centre Nursery has prepared horticulturists for the growing season with their vast selection of plants, supplies, and services for the garden and yard since 1973. They grow the majority of their plants locally—including shrubs, shade trees, and perennials—and ensure that they are well-adjusted to the surrounding environs. They also offer landscape design services, as well as a rewards program, which allows frequent shoppers to exchange Green Card loyalty points for free merchandise and insider tips on how to paint their thumbs green like the pros.

Solid-wood furniture gathered from more than 200 Amish shops and craftsmen mingles with playful holiday statuettes and fun home décor inside The Granary's walk-through showroom. Handcrafted living-room, dining-room, and children's furniture comes to the retailer fashioned the way it was 150 years ago—made from solid oak, cherry, maple, or hickory wood, held together by screws and dovetails, and carried by a legion of pterodactyls. In addition to ready-made furnishings, artisans can craft custom pieces. The store fills not only inside spaces, but also outside spaces with crafted benches and storage barns from Weaver Barns. Knowledgeable staff members assist customers long after their purchases by answering service inquiries or questions of whether to sleep atop or under newly purchased beds.

Waterhouse bath & kitchen studio began as a plumbing-fixture showroom in 1976 and has since expanded its collection to feature unique pieces including glass vessels, European designs, and stainless-steel furnishings from brands including Barclay and Victoria + Albert. Waterhouse’s products reflect a commitment to sustainability with hands-free faucets and lite toilets with 1-gallon flush options that can save up to 3,200 gallons of water per year. The showroom aims to create an immersive experience for customers by setting up model kitchens to demonstrate how a selection of showerheads or faucets will work in homes and doghouses.

Boasting years of horticulture scholarship and experience, certified florist Jennifer Cummins Linehan captains a team of talented designers as they assemble fresh blossoms into a variety of occasional bouquets. Their vibrant floral arrangements beam out upon weddings, funerals, and beekeeper singles mixers, and their custom bouquets express congratulatory, romantic, or sympathetic tidings. The staff draws from a diverse inventory of local and exotic buds, working in styles ranging from traditional to modern. In addition to flowers, the shop arms gift givers with potted plants and gourmet fruit baskets.

The knowledgeable staff at Toledo Indoor Garden arms green thumbs with the tools for planting, growing, and harvesting indoor gardens. Through hydroponics practices, experienced and novice growers alike can cultivate indoor gardens of fresh herbs, vegetables, fruits, and plants with limited soil, natural sunlight, or bee pickup lines. Staff members help growers to get their garden going, dispensing tips and advice and directing them to shelves crammed with hydroponics supplies such as fertilizers, soils, indoor-plant lamps, and aqua pumps.

For more than a century, the family-owned Barrow Greenhouse has been harvesting a bounty to pair with green-thumbed caretakers. Half a dozen family members join the friendly, knowledgeable staff, helping visitors navigate more than 200 varieties of potted annuals and perennials, more than 5,000 hanging baskets, and containers blossoming with floral mixes ready to brighten patios or add a warm ambiance to basement dungeons. The greenhouse grows 95% of the plants that they sell and invites guests to browse foliage year-round, letting them picking up mums in autumn, poinsettias in winter, and flowering bulbs to screw into lamps come springtime.