Outdoor garden centers popping up at Lidl stores in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Matthew Korfhage, Delaware News Journal
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Lidl stores in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York will offer a little something new this spring: outdoor garden centers.

Ever since the boring, broken-supply chain days of the pandemic, there's been a gardening boom in the United States. Starting in 2022, German-owned discount grocer Lidl has been looking to get in on the game.

The chain, which boasts 170 stores along the East Coast, piloted an outdoor garden store in New York's Long Island beginning two years ago, in partnership with a century-old local grower named Gabrielsen Farms.

This year, Lidl expanded this concept with outdoor garden stores in select locations, spanning 76 stores across the eastern seaboard.

German-owned grocer is opening pop-up, parking lot garden centers in select Lidl locations across Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York from April 24 to May 28, 2024.
German-owned grocer is opening pop-up, parking lot garden centers in select Lidl locations across Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York from April 24 to May 28, 2024.

As of Wednesday, April 24, a number of Lidl stores in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will boast outdoor pop-up garden centers in their parking lots. This will include both of Lidl's stores in Delaware, in Dover at 150 Dupont Highway and in Middletown at 359 Auto Park Drive. (It will not, however, include the forthcoming Bear store, which has yet to set an opening date.) The Lidl garden centers will remain open until May 28 and will feature a variety of flowers, plants, soil, hanging baskets, planters and other gardening accessories, according to company spokespeople.

German-owned grocer is opening pop-up, parking lot garden centers in select Lidl locations across Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York from April 24 to May 28, 2024.
German-owned grocer is opening pop-up, parking lot garden centers in select Lidl locations across Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York from April 24 to May 28, 2024.

"We are excited to bring the Lidl Garden Center concept to even more customers this year. At Lidl, we are relentlessly focused on quality and freshness at low prices and our Garden Centers are no exception," said Tammy Roberts, Lidl's purchasing director, in a statement.

More details, including products for sale, are viewable at lidl.com/garden-center.

Which Lidl stores will include a garden center in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware?

Stacks of gardening supplies sit in the parking lot of the Lidl location in Dover on April 22, 2024. Lidl locations in Delaware opened pop-up garden centers featuring plants and gardening supplies on April 24.
Stacks of gardening supplies sit in the parking lot of the Lidl location in Dover on April 22, 2024. Lidl locations in Delaware opened pop-up garden centers featuring plants and gardening supplies on April 24.

Delaware

  • Dover

  • Middletown,

New Jersey

  • Bellville

  • Glassboro

  • Park Ridge

  • Union

  • Vineland

New York

  • Commack

  • Deer Park

  • East Meadow

  • East Patchogue

  • East Rockaway

  • Farmingdale

  • Garden City Park

  • Islip

  • Massapequa

  • Merrick

  • Plainview

  • Riverhead

  • Selden

  • Syosset

  • West Babylon

Pennsylvania

  • Easton

  • Folsom

  • Philadelphia

  • Port Richmond

  • Reading

  • Trooper

  • York

This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: These Lidl stores have garden centers in Delaware, PA, NJ and NY