Where & How to Buy Native Plants
The SNP nursery closed at the end of 2022.
Thank you to all of our fantastic nursery customers who helped us establish thousands of native plants over 31 years! In this new chapter, we are excited to focus our efforts on designing, installing, and maintaining native plant projects.
If You Need Plants, We Still Have Your Back.
We've compiled a list of trustworthy native plant growers and provided additional information on procuring native plants.
If you want, you can access a PDF with most of the following information here. We keep this webpage regularly updated as we find new amazing partners! This webpage is the most up to date way to connect with reputable suppliers.
2026 Update: We have Racks & Tubes for You!
We have thousands of like-new sets of propagation racks and tubes that need a good home.
Growing plants in racks and tubes creates plugs, which are a vital plant material for restoration and green stormwater infrastructure projects. But we promise, they are useful for so many other things!
Racks and tubes are stellar for growing:
- Tree seedlings
- Emergents and other gramminoids
- Flowers from seed
- Baby ferns
- Tree and shrub cuttings
- Vegetable starts
- and more!
They aren't going into the bin, we'd rather them continue to grow plants throughout their long lives. If you are interested, please email Info@SoundNativePlants.com
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Most suppliers listed here are in the Salish Sea region. Check back soon for updates including Portland-area suppliers!
Things to Keep in Mind
Material Type
This list of vendors is organized by material type. The plant materials used in restoration projects differ from those commonly utilized in landscaping projects, though plants grown for restoration can certainly be used in home gardens, green stormwater infrastructure installations, and many other settings! We have briefly described material types here and provided more details in their respective section.
Container Plants: Simply, plants grown in plastic pots, rootbags, etc.
Bareroot Plants: Plants grown in the ground and dug up for you in the dormant season. No container and minimal soil.
Lives Stakes & Cutting Materials: Sections of trees or shrubs that will root from "sticks".
Plugs: Small plants grown in racks and tubes. Often seedlings or immature plants, though available for mature annuals.
Seeds: Especially practical for prairie plantings of wildflowers and gramminoids.
Balled & Burlapped (B&B): Larger trees with established root balls are dug up and preserved in burlap sacks.
Plant Names
Botanists and growers like to use scientific names for plants to avoid confusion, because common names can vary widely from place to place and the same common name can apply to several different species. For example, there are three different native species commonly called “Oregon grape”, and each one has unique habitat requirements and growth form. If possible, you should know the scientific name of the plants you want to purchase. Even if you don’t know how to pronounce them (most trained botanists stumble over pronunciation!), you can spell them out. It will help ensure that you get the plants you want. If you’re not sure, describe what you want to the grower and they can help figure it out.
Retail Sales Yards are Uncommon
Most native plant growers don’t have retail sales yards. They are usually happy to sell to the public but you may need to schedule a visit before you come. You should probably have an idea of what you want, though most growers can provide good advice about native plants for a specific site. When you plan to buy native plants, it helps to understand the different forms of plant materials available for purchase.
Vendor Lists by Material Type
Container Plants
These are the plants you find at every retail nursery and home center – they come in a pot. You can buy them and plant them at any time of year, but fall is the best time to plant. Container plants are the most widely used type of plant material due to their greater availability and ease of planting. For trees and shrubs, a 1-gallon or 2-gallon pot size is best. Here are some places to buy them in western Washington:
Himā Nursery, Inc.
Located in: Snohomish, WA
Phone: 425-317-8822
Fax: 425-489-0222
Website: www.himanursery.com
Woodbrook Nursery
Located in: Gig Harbor, WA
Phone: 253-857-6808
Fax: 253-265-6471
Website: www.woodbrooknativeplantnursery.com
Has a retail yard open Tuesday-Saturday.
Storm Lake Growers
Located in: Snohomish, WA
Phone: 360-794-4842
Fax: 360-794-8323
Website: www.stormlakegrowers.com
Eatonville Nursery
Located in: Eatonville, WA
Phone: 360-832-4345
Fax: 360-832-4769
Tadpole Haven Native Plants
Located in: Woodinville, WA
Phone: 425-788-6100
Website: www.tadpolehaven.com
Wabash Farms
Located in: Enumclaw, WA
Phone: 360-825-7051
Fax: 360-825-1949
Website: www.wabashfarms.info
Hanging Gardens Native Plants
Located in: Black Diamond, WA
Phone: 253-797-0909
Fax: 360-886-2986
Fourth Corner Nursery
Located in: Bellingham, WA
Phone: 360-592-2250
Fax: 888-506-1236
Website: www.fourthcornernurseries.com
Primarily bareroot plants, but they have some containers.
Watershed Garden Works
Located in: Longview, WA
Phone: 360-423-6456
Fax: 360-423-6456
Website: www.watershedgardenworks.com
Has a retail yard, offers a variety of native trees, shrubs, and emergents in containers.
Plugs
A few nurseries offer native plants in plugs, which are grown in narrow cylindrical containers and then removed from the pots and bundled for shipping. Species selection is limited and conifer plugs are much more widely available than shrubs. Plug sizes are specified by volume; some common sizes include 10 cu. in and 5.5 cu. in. Plugs offer many advantages over bareroot plants and conventional containers. They are cheaper than most container plants, priced competitively with bareroot plants, most are available for shipping and planting at any time of year, and they may be shipped UPS. Here’s where to get them:
WACD Plant Materials Center
Located in: Bow, WA
Phone: 360-757-1094
Website: www.wacdpmc.org
Only offers conifer plugs.
Fourth Corner Nursery
Located in: Bellingham, WA
Phone: 360-592-2250
Fax: 888-506-1236
Website: www.fourthcornernursery.com
Watershed Garden Works
Located in: Longview, WA
Phone: 360-423-6456
Fax: 360-423-6456
Website: www.watershedgardenworks.com
Plants of the Wild
Located in: Tekoa, WA
Phone: 509-284-2848
Website: www.plantsofthewild.com
Located in eastern Washington but they have a good selection of west-side species and they ship plugs UPS.
Bareroot Plants
Bareroot plants are grown outdoors in sand beds. They are dug up in winter when dormant, the soil is shaken off the roots and they are stored in cold storage. They are sold in bundles bagged in kraft paper, and may be shipped UPS. They are only available from mid-December until March and they must be planted soon after receiving them. Most growers have minimum orders of 50-100 plants. They are cheaper than container plants, but require greater care during handling and planting. Here’s where to buy them:
Conservation District Plant Sales
Every county has a conservation district and they all have an annual native plant sale in late winter. This is the best place for most people to buy bareroot plants because they sell them in small bundles. Pre-orders are accepted in January, and plants are delivered around the end of February.
Kitsap Conservation District annual plant sale information can be found on their website at www.kitsapcd.org or by calling 360-204-5529.
WACD Plant Materials Center
Located in: Bow, WA
Phone: 360-757-1094
Website: www.wacdpmc.org
WACD grows most of the plants sold at the conservation district plant sales.
Fourth Corner Nursery
Located in: Bellingham, WA
Phone: 360-592-2250
Fax: 888-506-1236
Website: www.fourthcornernursery.com
They are the primary native bareroot grower in Washington State.
Live Stakes & Cutting Materials
Live stakes or cuttings are straight sections of woody stems, collected while dormant. Only a few species will grow from live stakes, mainly willows, cottonwoods, red osier dogwood, and snowberry. They are available from October through March and must be planted soon harvesting. We recommend sourcing wild-harvest materials from as close to the planting site as possible. Here’s where to get them:
Wild-harvest:
Bogfoot LLC
Located in: Olympia, WA
Phone: 360-349-6163
Email: Ty@BogFoot.com
Website: www.bogfoot.com
Flora Northwest
Located in: Corbett, OR
Phone: 360-352-6170
Email: Alex@Floranw.com
Website: www.floranw.com
Himā Nursery, Inc.
Located in: Snohomish, WA
Phone: 425-317-8822
Fax: 425-489-0222
Website: www.himanursery.com
Cultivated:
Storm Lake Growers
Located in: Snohomish, WA
Phone: 360-794-4842
Fax: 360-794-8323
Website: www.stormlakegrowers.com
WACD Plant Materials Center
Located in: Bow, WA
Phone: 360-757-1094
Website: www.wacdpmc.org
Fourth Corner Nursery
Located in: Bellingham, WA
Phone: 360-592-2250
Fax: 888-506-1236
Website: www.fourthcornernursery.com
Watershed Garden Works
Located in: Longview, WA
Phone: 360-423-6456
Fax: 360-423-6456
Website: www.watershedgardenworks.com
Seeds
In western Washington, seed has minimal use for native plant restoration because trees and shrubs are difficult to establish from seed except in a nursery. Other regions dominated by grasslands use seed often. In our area, seed is used mostly for native wildflowers, wetland sedges and rushes, or prairie restoration. Most western Washington native seed is harvested in the wild, which is expensive. Here’s where to get them:
Frosty Hollow Ecological Restoration
Located in: Langley, WA
Phone: 360-579-2332
Native plant seed experts; seeds of many trees, shrubs, forbs, and emergents. Tracks seed collection sites.
Inside Passage Seeds
Located in: Port Townsend, WA
Phone: 360-385-6114
Website: www.insidepassageseeds.com
Has native and non-native seeds of many species. Tracks seed collection sites.
Plantas Nativa
Located in: Bellingham, WA
Phone: 360-715-9655
Website: www.plantasnativa.com
Collects seeds of a variety of native trees, shrubs, emergents, grasses, and a few forbs. Tracks seed collection sites.
Northwest Meadowscapes
Located in: Port Townsend, WA
Phone: 360-504-6415
Website: www.northwestmeadowscapes.com
The only supplier of farmed (not wild-harvested) seed listed here, included with qualifiers. They sell wildflower meadow mixes with species that are not native to western Washington, and our experience is that “wildflower meadows” are unsustainable here without intensive management, and homeowners are likely to be disappointed with the results after a few years.
Balled & Burlapped (B&B)
B&B trees are trees that have been grown for several years in the field, and dug up with a large root ball which is wrapped in burlap and tied around the base of the trunk. B&B trees are large, heavy, expensive, and difficult to plant. They are used for landscaping, not restoration projects.
Himā Nursery, Inc.
Located in: Snohomish, WA
Phone: 425-317-8822
Fax: 425-489-0222
Website: www.himanursery.com