Plant Nurseries & Seed Sources
I list (in alphabetical order by country, state, and city) some of my favorite plant nurseries & the beginnings of a list of seed suppliers for various regions by the state in which they are found.
The nurseries are particularly good for native plants and/or multi-use plants (edible, medicinal, crafts, wildlife habitat, forage, windbreak species, et cetera).
ONLINE
Plants For A Future
An online resource center for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal, or other uses. According to the website, they practice vegan-organic permaculture with emphasis on creating an ecologically sustainable environment based largely on perennial plants. Their database includes over 7,000 plants.
www.pfaf.org
CANADA
Salt Spring Seeds
Sustainable Canadian seed company selling rare and unusual seeds. Online catalogue includes heirloom tomatoes, quinoa, amaranth, seed garlic, and a new zero-mile-diet kit.
www.saltspringseeds.com
UNITED STATES
Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance
https://rockymountainseeds.org/
Arizona
Cornville
Seeds Trust – High Altitudes Gardens
Specializing in great-tasting heirloom vegetable seed, emphasizing organic and wild-collected seed, and also including native wildflower and grass seed.
www.seedstrust.com
Flagstaff
Flagstaff Native Plant and Seed
www.nativeplantandseed.com
Patagonia
Borderlands Restoration Network
https://www.borderlandsrestoration.org/borderlands-nursery–seed.html
Pearce (and Bisbee and Sierra Vista (AZ) Farmers’ Markets)
Spadefoot Nursery
Regional natives for the uplands of southeastern Arizona.
Tucson
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum plant sale
https://www.desertmuseum.org/visit/events_plantsale.php
Bach’s Cactus Nursery
Many cacti… ask which have the tastiest fruit. They also grow saguaros from seed (saguaros have delicious fruit)
https://www.bachscactus.com/
Civano Nursery
Good nursery on the southeast side of town with natives and fruit trees.
https://civanonursery.com/
Desert Survivors
This non-profit nursery is a great source of native plants.
https://desertsurvivors.org/nursery.html
Dunbar Spring Neighborhood Foresters
https://dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org/
Mesquite Valley Growers
The largest nursery in our area.
(520) 721-8600
Native Seeds SEARCH
https://www.nativeseeds.org/
Nighthawk Natives Nursery
Owner Bernie operates this nursery collaborating with her husband’s native seed company, Wildlands Restoration. They’re great people and Bernie can take contract grow-outs. She often propagates her plants in extra-deep pots which encourage deeper root-growth and greater success-in-survival rates. This is not typically a retail business.
http://nighthawknativesnursery.com/
Plants for the Southwest
Knowledgeable owners and interesting selection of native and dryland plants.
https://plantsforthesouthwest.com/
San Xavier Farm Co-op
https://sanxaviercoop.org/
Spadefoot Nursery
Great source of native plants and vegetable garden seedlingshttps://www.spadefootnursery.com/
Tohono Chul
Many natives, some you don’t usually find elsewhere. They have extensive gardens where you can see mature specimens of all the plants they sell.
https://tohonochul.org/retail-greenhouse/
Tucson Botanical Gardens Nursery
At their plant sales you can often find some selections that you can’t get elsewhere.
(520) 326-9255
Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society
You can join them salvaging native cacti that would otherwise be destroyed by road and building projects
https://tcss.wildapricot.org/
Wildlands Restoration
Great source of native plant seed and restoration seed mixes
https://www.facebook.com/Wildlands-Restoration-154693104567940/
California
Occidental
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
www.oaec.org
San Juan Capistrano
Tree of Life Nursery
Excellent source of native California plants
www.californianativeplants.com
Watsonville
Santa Cruz Olive Tree Nursery
Over 40 varietals available and THEY MAIL ORDER TREES.
www.santacruzolive.com
New Mexico
Central & Northern
Tooley’s Trees
A wholesale nursery in Truchas, NM, on the highroad between Santa Fe and Taos, at 7,800′. Focusing on varieties that are drought tolerant and adapted to high pH, we grow species trees, shrubs and grafted fruits. We grow in 12″, 16″ and 18″ root control bags. Our stock is grown with organic certified fertilizer. We have many heirloom and uncommon varieties of grafted apples, plums, pears and cherries. Our grafts are on rootstocks carefully selected to match climate and soil types in this area.
tooleystrees.com
Albuquerque
Plants of the Southwest
www.plantsofthesouthwest.com
El Paso
High Desert Native Plants
http://www.highdesertnativeplants.com/
Santa Fe
Plants of the Southwest
www.plantsofthesouthwest.com
High Country Gardens
https://www.highcountrygardens.com/
Silver City
Lone Mountain Natives
https://www.lonemountainnatives.com/
North Carolina
Asheville area
Useful Plants Nursery (Black Mountain)
www.usefulplants.org
Sandy Mush Herb Nursery (Leicester)
www.sandymushherbs.com
Paradise Gardens
(828) 675-5664
Virginia
Edible Landscaping
Great source of edible plants and THEY MAIL ORDER.
www.eat-it.com
Washington
Bellingham
Fourth Corner Nurseries
5652 Sand Rd, Bellingham, WA 98226
(800) 416-8640
sales@fourthcornernurseries.com
www.fourthcornernurseries.com
Wisconsin
Viola
Forest Agriculture Enterprises
They offer bare-root dormant nursery stock of food-producing and woody-crop plants, catering to the larger scale “woody agriculture” and Permaculture grower. The parent plants of their seedlings have been producing reliable, high-quality crops in southwest Wisconsin through all extremes of weather and climate (-52 to 112 degrees, droughts and floods) for the past 12 years. They sell only species that have been successfully cropped on the home farm. Most of their plants are well adapted to USDA Hardiness Zones 4-7, with many adapted to Zones 2 & 3.
www.forestag.com