Best of the Beach 2026: Nursery/Garden Store – Deep Roots Garden Center
Nursery/Garden store Deep Roots Garden Center For 15 years, Jon Bell ran Deep Roots Garden Center out of a barn-like building at the corner of Sepulveda and 2nd Street in Manhattan Beach — a site that had been a nursery for six decades, most famously as Bob’s Nursery under Bob Brock. Bell started working there at 15, bought the business at 28, and built it into one of the most beloved small businesses in the South Bay. Then Manhattan Beach’s relentless march of development caught up with him too. “Manhattan Beach is just, unfortunately, pricing themselves out,” Bell said. “They’re never going to see much in the way of mom and pop, or individually owned businesses anymore, unless it’s just basically an ultra-wealthy person looking for a little something to keep them busy. The rents are more than double if you go just a mile west of where we are now.” So Bell did what the best of them do: he found a way forward. After a year of searching for a comparable space — a building with outdoor room for plants — he landed at 18420 Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance, in a space three times the size of the old location. Unable to replicate the outdoor nursery model exactly, he leaned into what he…
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