Cannon Beach Nurseries
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mshane
Location: Washington, Olympic Peninsula
Posted: May-21-2005 at 7:09am
Hi--
Can anyone tell me if there are any noteworthy nurseries in the Cannon Beach/Seaside area? We plan on visiting there next month and would enjoy a plant-shopping stop.
Mary
KellieD
Location: Oregon, Northern Coast
Posted: May-21-2005 at 8:13am
The only nursery in that immediate area is Raintree Nursery in Seaside. Since it was purchased by a Portland area nursery this last winter the inventory has vastly improved. Astoria has Lewis and Clark Nursery on Business 101, and Brim's Feed Store just around the corner has a nice little nursery area. Lewis and Clark is new and going through some transitional growing pains in inventory.
There are some really good plant vendors at the Astoria Sunday Market on 12th Street.
Care to know who is in Tillamook?
cjmiller
Location: Oregon, Willamette Valley
Posted: May-22-2005 at 2:00pm
Kellie, are YOU in Tillamook? Last night I saw that it was the 7 Dees tribe that is now running the Seaside nursery. My wish for all nurseries is beside the normal stuff they all carry, that they find a specialty to focus on.
Carol
KellieD
Location: Oregon, Northern Coast
Posted: May-22-2005 at 9:20pm
No, I'm in Gearhart which is just north of Seaside. I do make requent trips to Tillamook as I am going through nursery withdrawal. Around here I have to travel further afield!
Red Hare
Location: Oregon coast
Posted: Jun-17-2005 at 1:37pm
Hey, Kellie, how about Fitzgerald's on Pacific Way in Gearhart? Or maybe they're called something else now. I haven't stopped in since it changed owners, but I go by there a lot on my way to the Gearhart Grocery for lunch (good deli counter). I don't shop at Raintree much anymore - they're so expensive, but they do have a nice selection. Brim's has better prices and a surprising variety, and it's good quality. Plus, Linda Brim is a Master Gardener and can ID anything. If you have time, don't overlook all the nurseries on the Washington side of the Columbia River. There are a couple in Chinook, the English Nursery in Seaview (if you go in the morning, go hungry, and stop at Laurie's Homestead House for breakfast - excellent! - or for lunch, try the Heron & Beaver Pub, just a little ways farther down the road in Seaview, at the Shelburne Inn, and have a Cougar Gold Cheddar and Bacon Burger - the best burger on the coast, in my experienced opinion). There's at least one more nursery (Planter Box?) on the highway north of Long Beach, plus Clark's Nursery on Sandridge Road specializes in rhodies. There's also a nursery in Naselle that has inexpensive pond stuff. Oh, and in Seaside itself is Lyle's. They don't have a big selection, though.
KellieD
Location: Oregon, Northern Coast
Posted: Jun-18-2005 at 11:32am
Thanks for the nursery info, Red Hare. I am familiar with most of them, but there are a couple I haven't been to yet.
I guess I've become selective after working for Heronswood!
cjmiller
Location: Oregon, Willamette Valley
Posted: Jun-18-2005 at 3:09pm
I envy anyone who is a Heronswood snob!
That certainly would give one an whole diffrent slant on most any other "common" nursery you are so lucky! My only regret for working in nursing for all those years that I could have worked in a nursery instead!
Carol
KellieD
Location: Oregon, Northern Coast
Posted: Jun-18-2005 at 6:57pm
I sure don't mean to come across as a snob, and I apologize if that is how it sounded. I've been working the nursery industry for 25 years, so I do see nurseries differently than other people do! You would think I could overcome the urge to water, straighten, answer questions...........NOT!!
Fern
Location: Washington, Western Cascade Foothills
Posted: Jun-19-2005 at 9:04am
I know people come into our nursery and say it's so beautiful but it's hard to see that for me because I see every little thing that needs to be done. I do try and stop sometimes and just appricaite it.
Fern
Red Hare
Location: Oregon coast
Posted: Jun-22-2005 at 2:30pm
Kellie, having made my first pilgrimage to Heronswood this spring, I understand what you mean. But if every nursery were a Heronswood, it wouldn't be so unique. Fortunately, it and other special nurseries, like Joy Creek, aren't too far. :-) In the meantime, the local yokels keep me in catmint and penstemon and herbs and other, more common, lovelies.
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