Nurseries in and around Olympia

I know of Burnt Ridge and Raintree, but they're further south than I can make it right now.

I’m further out than Olympia so don’t know of any nurseries there, but I recall Burnt Ridge will bring your order to the Olympia Farmers Market - if that helps.

Depends on what you are wanting to purchase and what sort of nursery you are looking for.

For native plants:
- Sound Native Plants
- Woodbrook Native Plant Nursery *in Tacoma

General plant nursery:
- Bark and Garden Center
- The Barn Nursery

Mix of native and general plants:
- Eastside Urban Farm and Garden Center

Also, for native plants Native Plant Salvage Foundation organizes events where they salvage native plants from development sites to sell once or twice a year. If you volunteer to help salvage the plants you can take some home for free. The organizer always has great hot food for her volunteers at the events. The organization I work for partners with them regularly.

The local conservation districts - Thurston CD and Mason CD - both have plant sells once a year in February/March.

There are other smaller nurseries in our area but many are fairly small and not open year round. Some are also wholesale only so unless you are buying a lot they won't really help.

Thanks Laurie! I didn't know that and want to support Burnt Ridge, what better way to do it!

And Daron, wow, what a list. I dig Eastside (a bit pricey but diverse and balanced) but everything else is news. Thanks for pointing a n00b in the right direction!

Lawyer nursery is a little more on the wholesale side and they have some great stuff!

Edit 2019: Lawyer is no more -- sorry to see the good guys go!

Thanks Eric! I like their volume options (I'm mostly thinking in multiples of ten), selection and that they don't seem to require incorporation to register as a wholesale account. So many nurseries turn up when I search, it's helpful for a quick narrowing from like-minded people ;)

A few more tips on Lawyer:
They have "conservation grade" that usually means a kinked stem or funny root or something - but great stock at half or less the regular price
They have a literal fire sale in June -- stock goes to about 60% discount for a while as it comes out of cooling and what doesn't sell goes on the bonfire...  (this isn't broadly advertised so you might need to call and ask..)

There's an awesome mail order nursery called "Native Foods Nursery."  They are in Oregon, but they ship throughout the NW.  Very permie!  Native Foods Nursery

Justin Michelson wrote:There's an awesome mail order nursery called "Native Foods Nursery."  They are in Oregon, but they ship throughout the NW.  Very permie!  Native Foods Nursery

That looks like a great nursery and also welcome to the site! I'm going to have to check them out - I'm a huge fan of panting edible natives!

Quick note - they seemed expensive to me when I was looking at their list but I noticed that if you click on a specific plant you can choose from a range of sizes. The listed price seems to always be for one of the bigger sizes. Once I spotted this their prices don't seem bad for potted plants. If I end up ordering from them I will likely go for the smaller sizes.

Another nursery to add to the list. If you are wanting to order a large amount of native plants try the Washington Conservation District Association. They let anyone order wholesale but you have to order a minimum of $200 worth of plants. Their plants are all bareroots or livestakes and they only deliver January through I think March. I have used them to get some of my hedgerows established.

While it's not a nursery, when I lived around Olympia about ten years ago, Black Lake Organic south of town was the best little garden shop I've ever been to. The last time I went (2yrs ago), it was more oriented towards the emerging Washington market of the time but still had awesome deals on cover crop seed and fertilizers (2$/lb for a lot of staples). I have had good luck with all of the products of theirs I've tried (dozens of different seeds and soil amendments). I plan to try to stop by any time I am driving through the area, though being in northern CA that has become rare.