Announcement -- January 2024

  • A hard freeze in January 2024 (the coldest in 35 years!) renders our last posted availability list obsolete. Watch this space for a new list by the end of February. It will be limited to start with, but as spring progresses, more selections will be added regularly, so check back often!

  • Until announced otherwise, visiting the nursery to buy plants will be on the basis of pre-ordering and picking up your order by appointment.

  • Mail-order will be suspended until at least May 1st. Stay tuned for an update!
  • Welcome to THE DESERT NORTHWEST!

    "It is hard for people to accept the idea that a garden does not have to be watered."
    - Robert Nold, High and Dry

    We are a specialty nursery located in Sequim, Washington, dedicated to the production and promotion of noteworthy water-wise plants! Here you can find a wide range of interesting and hard to find treasures, such as cold-hardy desert plants, plants from the Southern Hemisphere, Mediterranean plants, dryland native plants, and more. Founded in 2005, Our aim is to show Northwest gardeners how to make plant selections that require little or no summer water once established. We specialize in mail-order, as many of our plants also offer excellent performance, or potential, outside the Pacific Northwest! We propagate and produce all of our own stock here at our nursery in beautiful Clallam County, Washington, without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides. We also offer seed of some plants.

    Our web site is also intended as an informative resource for those who wish to learn how to grow various kinds of unusual plants, especially xeric plants and others adapted to our summer-dry climate. Please enjoy the photo galleries, blog, and plant articles on the site! We hope you learn something interesting while browsing through our pages, whether it be about rare plants, gardening, or our climate.

    Read more about us here.

     
    FEATURED PLANTS!

    Still working on this part. Unless we decide to put something else here. We might even just re-do the whole web site. Stay tuned.
    P.O. Box 3475, Sequim, WA 98382 · email: mail@desertnorthwest.com
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