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Snow's Garden Center Snow’s Garden and Landscaping Center has been a gardening staple in Charlottesville for 112 years!

434-295-2159 Snow’s Garden and Landscaping Center has been serving Charlottesville and the surrounding area for over 100 years. Located at 1875 Avon Street Ext, just South of downtown Charlottesville, Snows offers plants, trees, shrubs, flowers, mulch, gardening tools, lawn items, garden statues... AND MORE!

10/05/2026

🏡 114 YEARS OF MAKING CENTRAL VIRGINIA MORE BEAUTIFUL. 🌳🔥

When you’ve been landscaping Charlottesville and Central Virginia since 1912, you learn a thing or two about creating outdoor spaces that stand the test of time.

We caught up with Trevor Chandler, Landscape Designer at Snow Knows Outdoor Living, to talk about how the Snow’s team can transform an idea for your property into an outdoor space your family can enjoy for years.

Whether you’re starting from scratch or upgrading what you already have, Snow Knows Outdoor Living is a go-to source for virtually any outdoor project:

🔥 Fire pits & outdoor gathering spaces
🔨 Patios, hardscapes & walkways
🏡 Seating & retaining walls
🌳 Hand-picked trees, shrubs & landscaping
🌱 Turf & lawn solutions
🏡 Complete landscape design & installation
✨ Full outdoor-living transformations

And there’s some serious Charlottesville history behind the name.

Snow’s was founded in 1912 by Leroy H. Snow and his wife, Maggie, who started a market garden on Carlton Avenue selling vegetables, flowers and plants to local stores and residents.

114 years later, Snow Knows is still family-owned and still helping Central Virginia families get more out of their properties.

From a single new patio or fire pit to a complete backyard transformation, the team can help you design it, select the right materials and plants, and build it.

📍 Snow’s Garden Center — 1875 Avon Street Extended, Charlottesville

Watch Trevor explain what Snow Knows Outdoor Living can do for your property. 👇

What outdoor project would add the most value to YOUR home right now — a patio, fire pit, landscaping or something else?

The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller, 12:30 pm, Monday - Friday. 📺 🎙️ 💡



Snow's Garden Center Corbin Snow Trevor Chandler

08/26/2026

Trust the process. 🌿 Sometimes the best paths are the ones you couldn’t see coming.

05/23/2026

POV: the rain finally hits… and suddenly every plant at Snow’s Garden Center starts sounding like:

“WEEEEEEEEEEEE 🌧️🌱😂”

After weeks of heat, dry soil, and gardeners checking the forecast 47 times a day… the plants are OUT HERE celebrating harder than humans.

Honestly though… nothing beats that smell of fresh rain, the sound of water hitting leaves, and watching an entire garden come back to life overnight. 🌿

Your hydrangeas 🤝
Your tomatoes 🤝
Your hanging baskets 🤝
Your emotional support plants 🤝

ALL singing the same song today. 🎶

If you listen closely… you can hear the perennials screaming too. 😂

Rain days at the garden center just hit different.

05/22/2026

🎶 Hey there Delilah, what’s it like in Charlottesville City…
Probably wishing your backyard looked a little less “forgotten Pinterest board” and a little more “luxury outdoor oasis.” 😏🌿🔥

That’s where SnowKnows Outdoor Living comes in.

From custom patios, fire pits, retaining walls, outdoor kitchens, landscape lighting, and backyard makeovers… to simple landscape refreshes that completely change the feel of your home — we design spaces that make people actually WANT to be outside again.

✨ FREE Landscape Consultations
✨ FREE Conceptual AI Landscape Designs
✨ Limited Summer Install Availability
✨ Seasonal Discounts Happening NOW

Whether your goal is:
✔️ Better curb appeal
✔️ Backyard entertaining
✔️ Increasing home value
✔️ Creating a relaxing outdoor retreat
✔️ Family gathering spaces
✔️ Resort-style outdoor living
✔️ A clean modern landscape refresh

…we’ve got you covered.

At SnowKnows, we don’t just install landscaping.
We create outdoor spaces where life happens. 🌿🏡🔥

And yes…
we still put the FUN in functional.

📍Charlottesville • Waynesboro • Crozet • Staunton • Central Virginia
Serving Virginia homeowners since 1912.





05/20/2026

Serial plant killer picking out her next victim… 🌿💀😂

Listen… not everybody was born with a perfect green thumb — and that’s okay. That’s what your local garden center experts are for. 👩‍🌾🌸

At Snow’s Garden Center, we’ll help you figure out:
☀️ sun or shade
💧 how much to water
🌱 what thrives in Virginia
🪴 which plants survive “good intentions”

Whether you’re a plant pro or currently 0-17 against houseplants… we got you covered. 🤝😂

Come wander the greenhouse, ask questions, and let us help you grow something beautiful this spring. 🌸

05/18/2026

Somewhere along the way, the dreams turned into real life.

The trucks.
The long days.
The pressure.
The business.
The people counting on you.
The hometown roads you grew up driving… now leading to the place your team built.

Easy to stay focused on the next goal, the next project, the next level.
But don’t forget… this version of life was once the prayer.

Now I get to pull into Snow’s Garden Center — a place rooted since 1912 — and keep building the dream for another generation.

Crazy thing is…
most blue collar men never stop long enough to realize they’re already living the prayer they once whispered to God in survival mode.

To every landscaper, lineman, farmer, operator, welder, mechanic, mason, and country boy chasing something bigger:

KEEP. GOING.

The dream isn’t someday.
The dream is the life you’re building right now. 🇺🇸





05/15/2026

AI is coming for blue collar jobs… 🤖

AI can build a proposal…

But it ain’t:

* hauling block uphill
* fixing mistakes on the fly
* calming stressed homeowners
* laying stone in July heat
* or running on gas station coffee and pure survival instinct 😂

Respect to the trades.
The guys covered in dust and mud making things happen every single day.

The world still runs on blue collar people. 🇺🇸





Address

1875 Avon Street Ext
Charlottesville, VA
22902

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm

Telephone

+14342952159

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