Choosing a garden center for your gardening needs can sometimes be a difficult process. There are many garden centers attached to large box stores and hardware stores and even the grocery stores carry garden center type areas for everything from tomatoes to potted plants. There are a number of ways to choose the correct garden center for your needs. Make sure that the garden center you choose has fresh, hardy, good looking plants in all sections, not just the flowers or the vegetables. If only one area has good looking plants, move on to another garden center. There are several independent garden centers that are also willing to give you advice or help with a problem garden or flower garden when you ask them.