Each winter, we offer plants at Seattle's Northwest Flower and Garden Show and Portland's Yard, Garden, and Patio Show.  These shows are an excellent opportunity to get bargain prices on fine plants that are

1) outstanding new introductions,

2)  in high demand and very limited
     supply, or

3)  hardly ever available.

We offer scores of choice varieties in clean, easy-to-carry packages.

Visit Sundquist Nursery for choice hard-to-find plants!

 Feb. 18-22, 2009 - Seattle Northwest Flower and Garden Show booth 2212 

Feb. 27-Mar. 1, 2009 - Portland Yard, Garden, and Patio Show booth 1176  

Easy-to-carry bare root plants at the thriftiest prices of the year!

Spend $50 at the show, get a free blooming-size 'Corky' daylily worth $8! 

Here are a few highlights of what we'll have at this year's February shows! 

Sundquist Nursery is one of the nation's leading growers of epimediums, ferns, and fine shade garden companions that are fun, reliable garden plants.  We have some choice new epimediums this year, including 'Black Sea', Red Queen', Thunderbolt', 'Okuda's White', and 'Purple Prince'. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choice ferns at the shows include 'Regal Red' painted fern, one of the very best forms for burgundy color, and reasonably priced.    We'll have other great ferns, too!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our designer foliage plants include icy 'Jack Frost' Brunnera, dusky Disporum 'Night Heron, and a selection of hostas in outrageous colors and textures, including new, delectable 'Orange Marmalade'.  And this is just the beginning!

Check out sensational Geranium 'Blue Sunrise' - blue flowers over gold cutleaf foliage! 

Now a classic, exquisite Astrantia 'Hadspen Blood' is one of the best blooms for fresh or dried arrangements.  

Omigosh!

Echinaceas from outer space really are taking over our country.

'Harvest Moon' Echinacea - butterfly magnet! 

Just Landed: 'Pink Double Delight' Echinacea 

'Tiki Torch' coneflower

   Amazing tropical orange blooms!

The first available plants! 

Kniphofia 'Cobra' will impress in your garden!

 Alstroemeria 'Devotion' offers sumptuous summer cut flowers.        

Dierama, native to South Africa - heavenly to hummingbirds!  

Agapanthus 'Stormcloud'   Got blue?  We do.

                   Plus, we'll have a big selection of  unusual and    

 favorite natives for naturally greener gardens!      

Native Fawn Lily     

                  Native Shooting Star

This is still only the beginning.  We have about a hundred great plants at the shows.  Whether your garden ideas are sublime or outrageous, we have a plant that you need.  Come see us! 

     - Nils Sundquist

       Sundquist Nursery  

How to take care of your plants from the show

The most important thing to do with "bare root" plants is to get them out of the package and into soil.  Moisture buildup or drying can occur in the package or out of the package.  Too wet or too dry conditions are the enemies of plants.  Promptly getting plants into soil helps stabilize these variables.   

Plants left in the package too long will eventually rot and may even seem to disappear.  

When we get home from the store, we put perishables in the fridge.  When we get home from the garden show with living bare root plants, we need to keep the plants away from heat, and then get them into soil within a few days.  If we do that, they're fine.   

Unlike us, plants aren't warm blooded.  They don't care if it's cold outside.  It's fine to plant outdoors even if overnight temperatures might drop well below freezing.  Cover your plant's crown with a little compost, and it should acclimate and come up fine.  The only exception to the rule of immediate outdoor planting would be east of the mountains where the ground is frozen or temperatures of 20 degrees or less are common through winter.  Here, gardeners might transplant into the ground or into pots buried in protected foundation beds, beside compost bins, or in coldframes or cool greenhouses, and wait for spring to transplant into garden beds.    

Dormant bare root handling of plants is a transplanting method that's been used successfully for thousands of years.  The material in our packages is formulated to help buffer against extremes of moisture, drying, or cold while the plants make the journey from our farm to your garden.  Your plants need to be processed promptly when they arrive at their new home.  Keep them cool, and plant them within a few days after purchase.  Prompt planting is necessary to ensure success. 

Thank you!