Bonhoeffer Botanical Gardens does not transplant from the wild as it would defeat the goal of restoring our area’s native plants; see the Washington Native Plant Society’s Policy on Collection and Sale of Native Plants (“WNPS” is not a plant nursery). To fulfill our goal of hosting over 900 native species via seeds, seedlings, and cuttings, we have been greatly assisted over the years by:
Woodbrook Native Plant Nursery http://www.woodbrooknativeplantnursery.com/
5919 78th Ave NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98335 (253) 857-6808
Watershed Garden Works http://www.watershedgardenworks.com/
2039 44th Avenue, Longview, WA 98632 (360) 423-6456
WA Association Plant Materials Center http://www.wacdpmc.org/
16564 Bradley Road, Bow WA 98232 (360) 757-1094
Tadpole Haven Native Plants http://tadpolehaven.com/
20322 197th Ave NE, Woodinville, WA 98077 (425) 788-6100
Sundquist Nursery http://www.sqnursery.com
3809 Sawdust Hill Rd, Poulsbo, WA 98370 (360) 779-6343
Storm Lake Growers http://stormlakegrowers.com
18510 WA-203, Monroe, WA 98272 (360)794-4842
Snohomish County Conservation District http://snohomishcd.org/
528 91st Ave NE Lake Stevens, WA 98258 (425) 335-5634
Portland Nursery http://portlandnursery.com/
5050 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR 97215 (503) 231-5050
Pacific Rim Institute http://pacificriminstitute.org
5050 SE Stark Street, Portland, OR 97215 (360) 678-5586
NATS Nursery Ltd. http://natsnursery.com/
24555 32nd Ave, Langley, BC V2Z 2J5 (604) 530-9300
Namaste Gardens http://namastegardens.net
17421 Turtle Lane (360) 724-3141
Plantas Nativa LLC https://www.plantasnativa.com
315 E Champion St Bellingham, WA 98225 (360) 715-9655
MSK Rare Plant Nursery (Krukenberg) https://www.kruckeberg.org/msk-nursery/
20312 15th Ave NW, Shoreline, WA 98177 (206) 546-1281
Inside Passage http://www.insidepassageseeds.com/
Box 639, Port Townsend, WA 98368 (360)385-6114
Friendly Natives http://www.friendlynatives.net/
466 Piper Road, Quilcene WA 98376 (206) 387-5943
Fraser’s Thimbleberry Farm http://www.thimblefarms.com/
175 Arbutus Rd, Salt Spring Is, BC V8K 1A3 (250) 537-5788
Fourth Corners Nurseries http://fourthcornernurseries.com/
5652 Sand Rd, Bellingham, WA 98226 (360) 592-2250
Far Reaches Farm http://www.farreachesfarm.com
1818 Hastings, Port Townsend, WA 98368 (360) 385-5114
Fancy Fronds Nursery http://www.fancyfrondsnursery.com/
40830 172nd St SE, Gold Bar, WA 98251 (360) 793-1472
Derby Canyon Natives Plant Nursery http://derbycanyonnatives.com/
9750 Derby Canyon Rd, Peshastin WA 98847 (509) 548-9404
Clark’s Native Trees and Shrubs https://clarksnativetrees.com/
13030 WA-530, Arlington, WA 98223 (360) 435-9473
Cistus Nursery http://www.cistus.com/
22711 NW Gillihan Road, Portland, OR (503) 621-2233
Burnt Ridge Orchards, Inc. https://www.burntridgenursery.com/
432 Burnt Ridge Road, Onalaska, WA 98750 (360) 983.2873
along with other NW nurseries.
And we add our matrix of sources for NW Vine Maple Clone Sources.
To review our progress, look at Peter’s Cross. It is a mortuary of the NW’s lost native plants (as markers are moved to the Garden site where and when we have confirmed specimens growing). Cities, counties, states and the Federal government constantly denude the NW of its native flora. For urban areas, liability concerns cause them to cut down trees, plant non-native plants by roadways to eliminate native insects/food sources (to control roadkill), and plant fast growing, deep rooted, non-natives for erosion control. This joins Cascadia’s commercial and state and national forest deforestation with loss of topsoil, asphalting, and planting of “Super Dougs,” not to mention ever improving herbicides. (A cruel word play if the use of “forest” or “protected” … even “parks” can be logged.) Planting of agricultural and ornamental crops joins inadvertent agricultural invasive species’ invasions (cranberry cuttings from New England have brought 400 new plant types to Pacific County alone) and as the human population increases, so do the number of private collectors. Within Cascadia, plants have lost their ability to migrate; and migration is a must, as temperatures are rising and rainfall increasing (as the NW becomes more tropical). Quietly our native plants disappear.
The NW has a million rural residencies; if 1 in 10 planted a few native species in their front or back yards, individuals, not governments, could stem the tide of these extinctions. Cascadia (plants don’t know state boundaries) west of the mountains has but 1,000 native plants (counting the alpine). 10 in 100 residences could help solve the plant migration problem! The State of Washington and Oregon sending a few cents of their I-5 gasoline tax receipts to these nurseries to grow PLEA’s 464 (1/2 of Cascadia’s) native species with predictable extinction slopes … and using students to plant them far and wide, would be the game changer. And the youth would plant them, because they care! Yet, few adults care and as these plants, that are the food for Cascadia’s native animals, insects, birds, disappear we become the Delawares of the West.