Trends · data through September 2026

Garden & Outdoor Living in California

Iceflower tracks 95 stores from 19 garden & outdoor living chains in California. Armstrong Garden Centers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Green Acres Nursery & Supply and Sloat Garden Center.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
19
Tracked stores
95
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked garden & outdoor living chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Armstrong Garden Centers and Green Acres Nursery & Supply sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Armstrong Garden Centers - +18.3%
2 G Green Acres Nursery & Supply ▲1 +8.1%
3 S Sloat Garden Center logo Sloat Garden Center ▲1 +7.0%
4 G Green Thumb Nursery ▲2 +4.5%
5 W Walmart Garden Center logo Walmart Garden Center - +3.8%
6 S SummerWinds Nursery ▲1 -0.4%
7 T The Pool Store - -21.2%
8 M Moon Valley Nurseries ▼2 -29.8%
9 D Devil Mountain Wholesale Nursery ▼3 -58.5%
  • Walmart Garden Center
  • Armstrong Garden Centers
  • Sloat Garden Center
  • Walter Andersen Nursery
  • Green Thumb Nursery
  • Green Acres
  • Moon Valley Nurseries
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

95 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Walmart Garden Center (5)
  • Armstrong Garden Centers (24)
  • Sloat Garden Center (10)
  • Walter Andersen Nursery (2)
  • Green Thumb Nursery (5)
  • Green Acres (1)
  • Moon Valley Nurseries (10)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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