Starkie Bros Garden Center

Starkie Bros Garden Center is a landscaping and garden center business in Farmingdale, NY. It offers a wide range of products for indoor and outdoor gardening needs, organized into departments that include nursery stock, lawn and garden supplies, wild bird supplies, and ponds and water gardens. The center also provides landscape design services and a plant guide for customers planning their gardens. It holds a rating of 4.80 from customer reviews.

The business began when owner Butch Starkie started a landscape business with his brother John as a kid. They bought the Farmingdale property on Main St. in their early 20s and started a small outdoor nursery business. In the early 1990s, the Starkie Brothers Garden Center that stands today was built and became a full-service indoor and outdoor nursery. The brothers divided their businesses in the late 1990s; John Starkie owns and operates Starkie Brothers Custom Landscaping, while Butch Starkie owns and operates Starkie Brothers Garden Center. Patti Starkie joined the company in 2013 after raising their four kids and works alongside her husband and sons. George (Hank) Starkie earned a Bachelor's Degree in Ornamental Horticulture Technology and started his career at Starkie Brothers at age 14; he runs day-to-day operations and does plantings and landscape design. Jim Markham joined in 2004 as Nursery and Store Manager with more than 30 years of garden center experience.

The center carries brands including Bonide, Burpee, Scotts, Fox Farm, Monrovia, and Coast of Maine. It runs a loyalty program and publishes a blog covering seasonal garden topics such as midsummer pruning and fertilizing, protecting gardens from summer pests naturally, and May lawn and bloom care. The business is affiliated with the Better Business Bureau, the Nassau/Suffolk Landscape Gardeners Association, the Long Island Nurseryman Association, the New York Farm Bureau, Cornell Cooperative Extensions of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the New York State Environment Protection Agency, and the Farmingdale Chamber of Commerce.

Starkie Bros Garden Center sits on Main St. in Farmingdale, about 0.2 miles from Main Street and 0.3 miles from Motor Avenue, Fulton Street, Northwell Health, and the South Farmingdale Fire Department. Captain Kathy Mazza Memorial Park F-9 is about half a mile away.

The business is known for its positive customer rating and its long history serving Farmingdale gardeners.