Shopping in Willingboro

“Consignment” means the store buys directly from consumers and designers; the staff only accepts high-quality new and gently used items. Chic dresses, jackets, tops, and accessories often come with tags attached from designers including Prada, Versace, Gucci, Cole Haan, and Coach. Some recent bargains include a brand-new beaded cashmere sweater from Saks Fifth Avenue for $32 and an Ann Taylor jacket for $24. Formerly $400 prom gowns may go for $32–$42, while mint-condition Coach and Prada handbags can sell for $60–$75.

Garnering Delaware Today magazine's Best of Delaware award for Best Bargain Shopping Upstate, Designer Consigner owner Michelle Scott-Costa collects a diverse assortment of women’s apparel and accessories. Inventory includes items that initially graced the display cases of high-end designers such as Banana Republic, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Gucci, among others. Of the gently used garments brought in by her 1,200 consigners, Michelle accepts only clean, designer items free of stains and werewolf-claw marks.

Douglas J. Lavenburg, M.D. leads a team of optometrists that oversees the welfare of patients’ eyes and vision with up-to-date optometric techniques. But their services extend beyond eye exams, vision correction, and LASIK surgery. Microdermabrasions, pulsed-light hair removal, and Botox revamp complexions, and facials sprinkled with Obagi professional skin products, keep wrinkles at bay.

A massive golf franchise spanning 100 global locations, Golf USA’s well-appointed indoor golfing facilities foster year-round practice for players of all abilities. Within the Limerick location's 10,000 square feet, floor-to-ceiling mesh nets and languid faux-grass greens emulate practice drives as balls soar in front of video-projected course simulations. A full-service repair shop adjusts and mends golf clubs bent from practicing chip shots with bowling balls, and an expansive showroom displays golf gear from major brands such as Wilson, Titleist, and Adams.

At Perfect Events Floral & Gifts, skilled designers gather a wide variety of fresh flowers into traditional and contemporary arrangements, which earned them one of 1-800-FLOWERS.com's Top Performance Awards in the spring of 2011. Their native and tropical flowers make special occasions such as anniversaries, weddings, and birthdays more elegant and memorable. Staff can also recommend customized gift ideas such as gourmet fruit baskets to congratulate a promoted coworker or a monkey returning from his first space voyage. While they primarily serve King of Prussia and the surrounding areas, the artists' creations can also be delivered across the nation.

Robert Gardner grew up in the world of gardening. At the age of 13, he started helping work the fields and sell plants at his family's nursery, becoming the fourth generation of his family to go into the business. Decades later—now at the helm of the family business—Mr. Gardner purchased a property in Chester Springs and created Gardner's Landscape Nursery. Here, he oversees the growing of 100,000 annuals and perennials each year and the stock of home decor and patio furniture that is made in America.

Mr. Gardner and his staff also help patrons design custom outdoor environments, selecting plants, trees, and shrubs that beam with fall colors or thrive in specific conditions. Alternatively, patrons can explore on their own, browsing a glass house with plants and flowers or a 19th-century barn, which houses outdoor furnishings and the ghosts of garden gnomes.