About the Garden at Northwest Garden Nursery

Our 1.5-acre country garden began in the late 1970s and is finally showing signs of abundant maturity. Most of the garden dates from the mid-1980s, when we put in a pond and drilled a well.

We have sandy soil and live in a water-scarce area of Lane County. The garden is a densely planted collector’s garden within a design framework. Paths lead the visitor into a woodland garden filled with a collection of trees and shrubs under which a host of rare, shade-loving perennials mingle.

Panda and Zack, the social cats, Schnapps, Jigger, our delightful new Corgi, and Bo, our greyhound, will give you a tour through the rock garden and large mixed perennial borders, including several mosaics by Jeffrey Bale. Continuing the tour to the chaparral gravel garden you will find many heat-adapted plants living with poor soil, little water, and lots of gravel mulch. We have recently, since selling the hellebore business to Little Prince, removed 5 greenhouses and planted the area in drought tolerant plants which will receive no supplemental water.

Many benches through the gardens, a viewing deck, and a little goldfish pool invite you to rest and linger.

Garden Tours

Garden visitors are welcome throughout the year but need to call ahead to make sure we are home. The nursery is now closed, but we have occasional plants for sale. We do not give individual guided tours. Visitors to the garden are welcome to tour the garden on their own.

For additional information, please call (541) 935-3915 or info@nwgnursery.com.