Sequim Rare Plants, a nursery in Sequim Washington 98382

About Us

   One of the joys of having a nursery that grows its plants is deciding which ones to offer. Although we are small, if you were to visit our retail store in Sequim, you would not see all that we do with plants. Behind the scenes are other growing areas, in town and also acreage in the rural part of the county. 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 fifteen years ago. 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 much more limited number. Some of the larger kniphofias and Japanese irises grow better in the ground than in pots, and these we continue to field-grow.
   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 previously used for this mail-order nursery is Olympic Coast Garden. All of its plants came out of this field. Today we have a couple of greenhouses at our retail store within the older, central part of downtown Sequim, where most of our mail-order plants are grown in pots. Just down the street, at the southern end of Sequim Avenue we have another 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, fifteen years later it is one of the busiest streets.