Sequim Rare Plants, a nursery in Sequim Washington 98382

About Us

   One of the joys of having a nursery that grows its own plants is deciding which ones to offer. Although we are small, there are three separate locations for propagating and growing our plants. If we were to try to list the entire variety of our plants we would need “a cast of thousands.”
   The picture here and the next one were taken in the summer of 1994. Today we are not growing nearly as many perennials at our “farm” as we were doing then. But these two photos illustrate the scope of what we once did. It was really more than we could maintain. Today we still field-grow some of our plants, however a more limited number.
   As shown in the pictures, the field was divided into many rectangular growing beds, each one being eighty feet long by thirty feet wide, separated by ten-foot wide grass pathways. Part of the field has a gentle slope -- the grass pathways run perpendicular to the slope to slow down any erosion of the tilled soil.
   The business name that we used in the early 1990's for our mail-order nursery was Olympic Coast Garden. All of its plants came out of this field. Today the majority of our mail-order plants are grown in a couple of greenhouses at our location in downtown Sequim, on North Sequim Avenue. Just down the street at the southern end of Sequim Avenue we have a small lot where we grow a few plants for the nursery. The last photo shows the display garden there in June of 1993. The photo shows a long edging of lamb's ears along the sidewalk. And groups of hardy geraniums, ornamental grasses, roses, lupines and irises, among other perennials that flower at different times of the summer. Back then before the Highway 101 bypass was constructed this street was one of the sleepiest streets in town. Today, almost twenty years later, it is one of the busiest streets in our town.