Return of the awesome plants! Each February, we offer unusual, hard-to-find varieties at Seattle's Northwest Flower and Garden Festival. These shows are an excellent chance to shove winter aside, kick off your garden season, and get bargain prices on wonderful plants that are
1) outstanding new introductions or rare heirlooms,
2) in high demand and limited supply, or
3) hardly ever available at all!
We offer scores of choice varieties in clean, easy-to-carry packages.
Visit Sundquist Nursery for terrific plants not found at your local nursery, but that are gorgeous and grow!
February 18 - 22, 2026 - Seattle NW Flower and Garden Festival booth 2146
Nils is retiring later this year. 2026 is last call for our amazing plants! Until Nils rides off into the sunset, we're still offering one of the region's best selections of awesome garden growers, including some until-now "private reserve" varieties, at the 2026 Flower and Garden Festival, and at our 2026 Open Garden events.
We offer new varieties for reliability and a different look in your garden or pots! Many plants are widely marketed with little attention to how well they grow in the Pacific NW. Our focus is on varieties with demonstrated ability to grow here. A super way to gauge Pacific NW performance is to go with plants selected as Great Plant Picks. We'll have about fifteen of them. Other excellent widely adapted plants we offer are Perennial Plants of the Year and Hostas of the Year. Some super plants for our area are British Award of Garden Merit winners. Plantsman Nils Sundquist trials plants in the nursery gardens and has the experience to select the best with an eye to great plants that grow easily and well. Many of our varieties are new to commerce and simply haven't won their awards yet. When you shop at Sundquist Nursery, you can find what's new and what's tried and true, and choose plants with confidence. A great value for the money, our plants are often larger than those sold by others - if you can find them at all! Varieties are typically grown here for at least a year (often two to five years) before we offer them.
Easy-to-carry bare root plants at the thriftiest prices of the year!
Here are a few highlights of what we'll have at this year's February show!
Are you looking for uncommon but easy to grow flowers to light up your garden? Here are two reliable heirlooms that are hard to find and absolutely gorgeous!
'Beauty Color' orange euphorbia serves up weeks of blooms over olive purple foliage, blending beautifully with grasses, irises, hostas, and alliums.
And it's hard to beat Dictamnus for its church-steeple spires of flowers over glossy scented foilage. On warm summer evenings you can take a match to this one and Poof! you'll experience a small wonder and thrill anyone nearby. Don't worry, the plant will be fine!
Do you want to add awesome foliage?
Discover an impressive selection of reliable foliage plants for bright or shaded gardens, including the spectacular colors of 'Chocolate Wings' rodgersia in spring, followed by frothy pink late spring blooms and bronze fall color.
Bawdy gaudy lime-leafed eccentric drama queen garden mistress geranium Ann Folkard is forever seeking to luxuriate in the arms of her neighbors. She's an old friend and we love her!
Find the show's best hosta selection - new ones, unique colors, gorgeous blue, big, and small - including festive new dwarf 'Lemon Snap'! I wonder why they call it that?
Plus highly rated giant Hosta 'Ruffles and Ridges'! Magnificent blue foliage, corrugated and rippling. It's not your garden any more. It's Muscle Beach!
To keep your hostas company, we have scrumptious dwarf meadow rue 'Little Pinkie'. This one fits in your garden. These are the first plants in the U.S.!
Plus another new stunner - Oredenia 'Fusion of Fire' - whose big bold leaves turn bright red in fall - even in part shade!
Do you love a painter's touch? We offer gems like recently introduced 'Little Redhead' Spigelia and spring flowering trilliums (four different kinds this year!) - awesome plants sought after for natural garden blooms!
You can be Matisse or Monet!
Other plants for some shade include a selection of outstanding Epimediums offering up lively blooms and awesome foliage, including handsome and seldom available pink and yellow bicolor 'Cupreum', as well as lovely 'Waterfall', loaded with gorgeous purple and white blooms over a long season - but named for its luscious cascading purple-edged leaves. The epimediums are sturdy reliable growers!
Do you want something different that still grows? We've got you!
Have you got sun?!
We offer flowers that lure butterflies and hummingbirds, including 'Purple Rain' Allium with 4" globe flowers whose interest extends for months as they age!
Or you can get creative with outrageously colored Lime Flash poker plant, a remarkable creature with curlycued grassy foliage and late summer bloomspikes (dare I put it this way?) like nothing anyone has ever seen ever before. It is unique among pokers!
The hummingbirds won't know where to begin, and they will argue forever. Why we love them.
'Picotee' oriental poppy will brighten your garden and your bouquets!
'Night Thunder' pseudata iris is a rare unusual water iris that's non-invasive and also grows easily in your garden. Such a unique color!
Do you want to get the summertime blues? There ain't no cure for them, and you can get them here! 'Tutu Blue' Siberian iris is a supremely reliable plant and a magnificent bloomer with hints of turquoise. We have other blue lovelies, too!
Do you want something really new and different? 'Emerald Dream' mounding dwarf clematis is a non-climbing profuse spring bloomer for garden edges, rockery pockets, or pots. Totally different!
Want something freaky and fun?! Heartleaf oxeye daisy (Telekia) bubbles up big frilly golden yellow blooms on long stems, fantastic for cutting - and grows well in Northwest gardens. You'll want to steal some of those flowers from the butterflies.
'Lapis Blue' sea holly is a rarely available compact selection that combines stunningly in cut bouquets.
Want cooler colors? You can pick soft colors for sun, like lusciously cool mountain mint. The honeybees think it's pretty cool, too!
Or heirloom must-have Dierama, angel's fishing rod. Both make wonderful cut flowers and are easy to care for.
Just stay out of the butterflies' way!
Or do you like it hotter? Who can resist the monstrous fiery red blooms of 'King Kong' oreintal poppy
or 'Eos' Geum with bright orange " blooms popping out over glowing gold foliage?
The hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees know what's good for them! Take some cut flowers inside for breathtaking bouquets!
Do you cherish native plants? Come discover sweet native perennials like Camas, a gorgeous symbol of spring, or Menzies native burnet. They are two of our region's most ornamental natives!
Plus lots more natural garden selections!
Come find a huge range of easy-care, colorful perennials for shady or bright gardens. You can choose from close to a hundred varieties, many of which we're offering for the first time, as well as classic but hard-to-find heirlooms. All locally grown.
Do you long for contentment in spite of everything that's going on in your life? I know, I know, who doesn't? Gardening in your yard or containers is one of the most reassuring, healthful, thrifty ways to dial things back, decompress, connect with nature, stay grounded, treat yourself, create beauty, refresh, and stay positive! We offer the best of the new and the old - the most beautiful, reliable varieties for your containers, gardens, and bouquets. Don't wait - plant and enjoy! Butterflies and hummingbirds will visit you for free. These are just a few of our favorite plants. We have lots more in addition - all grown where the salamanders roam free!
Satisfy your plant lust without performance anxiety.
Find us at the garden show!
