May 2025 News The nursery is currently open by appointment. Our selection remains low, but that will change quickly over the summer as all the great plants currently in production become large enough to sell. We plan to announce formal open hours when the time approaches. Several selections of Grevillea will once again be available by midsummer. The web site has been improved with numerous descriptions and photos added for some plants. I will continue to add to this over time. Go to our retail list to start browsing and check it out! Mail-order remains available, and the list is now fully up to date.

Welcome to THE DESERT NORTHWEST!

"It is hard for people to accept the idea that a garden does not have to be watered."
- Robert Nold, High and Dry

The Desert Northwest is a specialty nursery located in Sequim, Washington, dedicated to the production and promotion of noteworthy water-wise plants! Here you can find a wide range of interesting and hard to find treasures, such as cold-hardy desert plants, plants from the Southern Hemisphere, Mediterranean plants, dryland native plants, and more. Founded in 2005, the aim of my nursery is to show Northwest gardeners how to make plant selections that require little or no summer water once established. Both local and mail-order sales are available. I propagate and produce all of our own stock here at our nursery in beautiful Clallam County, Washington, without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides.

The Desert Northwest web site is also intended as an informative resource for those who wish to learn how to grow various kinds of unusual plants, especially xeric plants and others adapted to our summer-dry climate. Please enjoy the photo galleries, blog, and plant articles on the site! I hope you learn something interesting while browsing the site, whether it be about rare plants, gardening, or our climate.

Read more about the nursery here.