State directory
Plant Nurseries & Garden Centers in Illinois
Growing zones in Illinois
Zones 5a–7a
Most nursery-dense area: avg. minimum winter temperature -15°F.
Frost window across Illinois
Fall frost arrives anywhere from Oct 7 to Nov 5 depending on where in the state; spring's last frost clears anywhere from Apr 4 to May 1.
Based on 278 ZIPs with NOAA-matched frost data in Illinois; a marginal/near-continuous-growing ZIP isn't counted here.
Business structure
580 independent nurseries and 323 chain, big-box, or grower/wholesale locations across Illinois.
Licence registry
This directory does not hold a bulk licence registry for Illinois; per-listing licence status is not verifiable here.
Every located business on the map
Where Illinois's nurseries are
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Cities
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We only give a city its own page once it clears 3 verified listings, so this list is shorter than the map above; every business we can place on a map, in any city, is a pin up there.
- Addison 4
- Algonquin 5
- Alton 4
- Antioch 5
- Arlington Heights 5
- Aurora 13
- Bartlett 3
- Belleville 16
- Belvidere 3
- Benton 3
- Bloomingdale 4
- Bloomington 13
- Bolingbrook 13
- Carbondale 7
- Carol Stream 5
- Carpentersville 6
- Champaign 17
- Cherry Valley 3
- Chicago 92
- Cicero 3
- Collinsville 5
- Country Club Hills 3
- Crest Hill 3
- Crystal Lake 12
- Danville 8
- Darien 3
- Decatur 12
- Deerfield 3
- Des Plaines 4
- Downers Grove 5
- East Peoria 9
- Edwardsville 4
- Elgin 12
- Elk Grove Village 4
- Elmhurst 4
- Evanston 16
- Fairview Heights 4
- Frankfort 5
- Geneva 7
- Glen Ellyn 3
- Glenview 6
- Grayslake 5
- Gurnee 6
- Harvard 8
- Hawthorn Woods 3
- Herrin 3
- Homer Glen 6
- Homewood 4
- Huntley 3
- Ingleside 3
- Joliet 8
- Lake Bluff 4
- Lake In The Hills 4
- Lake Zurich 6
- Lansing 4
- Libertyville 3
- Lincolnwood 3
- Lockport 3
- Lombard 3
- Loves Park 4
- Machesney Park 8
- Mahomet 4
- Marion 4
- Mattoon 5
- McHenry 10
- Milan 3
- Millstadt 4
- Mokena 3
- Moline 8
- Montgomery 5
- Morton 4
- Mount Prospect 3
- Mundelein 6
- Murphysboro 3
- Naperville 17
- New Lenox 3
- Niles 8
- Normal 5
- Northbrook 5
- Northlake 3
- Oak Park 5
- Ofallon 7
- Orland Park 8
- Oswego 5
- Palatine 5
- Pekin 4
- Peoria 15
- Plainfield 9
- Poplar Grove 3
- Quincy 13
- Rock Island 3
- Rockford 23
- Rolling Meadows 3
- Roscoe 3
- Round Lake Beach 4
- Saint Charles 7
- Schaumburg 4
- Shorewood 3
- Silvis 3
- Skokie 5
- South Elgin 7
- Spring Grove 3
- Springfield 24
- Tinley Park 3
- Union 4
- Urbana 6
- Volo 6
- Washington 4
- Wauconda 3
- Waukegan 6
- West Chicago 4
- Westville 3
- Wheaton 6
- Wheeling 5
- Willowbrook 3
- Woodstock 13
- Yorkville 4
- Zion 4
Zone hubs
What grows in zone 5a → What grows in zone 5b → What grows in zone 6a → What grows in zone 6b → What grows in zone 7a →