Long timber benches at Bay Laurel filled with foxgloves, ferns, ornamental grasses and flats of annuals in terracotta pots, with hanging baskets of petunias above and a stone rabbit among the plants

The Art of Outdoor Living

Inspired living, inside and out.

Discover a beautifully stocked garden center and a thoughtfully curated home shop at Bay Laurel Home & Garden, on Coastal Highway in Rehoboth Beach. Open year-round, seven days a week.

Call 302.248.8008

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Opening hours

Garden Center: Mon–Sat 9am–5pm
Sun 10am–3pm
Home Shop: Mon–Sat 9am–5pm
Sun 10am–3pm

18940 Coastal Highway
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 info@baylaurelde.com

Open year-round
Seven days a week
Route One at Route 24
The old Farmer Girl corner

Inspiration for outdoor living.

A planted aisle under the pergola at Bay Laurel — azaleas in pink and magenta, hostas, variegated foliage and white impatiens in blue nursery pots, with hanging ferns overhead

The Garden Center

Patio Furniture · Accessories · Ceramics · Botanicals

Mon–Sat 9am–5pm · Sun 10am–3pm

See the Garden Center

The Home Shop

Home Decor · Linens · Faux Botanicals · Ceramics

Mon–Sat 9am–5pm · Sun 10am–3pm

See the Home Shop

A Gardener’s Destination.

Tiered benches of yellow and bronze mums with rudbeckia and pink celosia — Mums on the benches

A pile of orange pumpkins and dark green gourds out on the lot — Pumpkins, out front

Crates of white, orange and striped mini pumpkins and knobbly gourds sorted by type — Gourds by the crate

Wrapped bouquets of sunflowers, zinnias and dahlias laid out in kraft paper — Cut stems, wrapped

Lattice shelving stacked with fluted and hand-stamped terracotta pots — Terracotta

A stone waterfall running into a koi pond ringed with rudbeckia, under a weeping conifer — The Koi Pond

The Bay Laurel Home and Garden sign above a bench of blue and pink hydrangeas — Under the sign

A scalloped stone planter filled with celosia, ornamental cabbage, lantana and white trailing petunias — A planter

Red, white and blue painted trays and a scalloped platter displayed on a table in the Home Shop — In the Home Shop

A shingled doorway with green double doors, a staghorn fern on the wall and a small birdbath fountain among potted ferns — The side door

A weathered garden statue among ferns and leafy plants, with a lantern and an old trunk on the lattice shelf behind — Among the ferns

Four jars of honey on an embroidered bee-print cloth with a fern and a brass spoon — Honey at the counter

A familiar place, some familiar faces, and something new to discover.

Farmer Girl Exotic Gardens held this corner from 1995 to 2020. Wharton’s Garden Center closed at the end of 2025. Bay Laurel opened here the following April — and several of the people who had worked at Wharton’s joined us.

The whole story

25 yrsFarmer Girl on this corner

2025Wharton’s closes

2026Bay Laurel opens in April

The front of the Bay Laurel shop with its circular painted sign and green shutters, beside a stepped run of yellow mums, ornamental kale and clipped boxwood

A Bay Laurel instructor speaking at the front of a class in the Home Shop, beside a table of potted herbs

Workshops run year-round.

Gardening workshops, classes and special educational events through the whole calendar year. See what’s coming up and sign up online.

See upcoming classes