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Wholesale native plant nursery with seasonal open houses.

06/05/2026

See you tomorrow at the market, I’ll have lots of pollinator food along!

05/28/2026

Globe Mallow Bees having a quick snooze on Munroe’s Globemallow.
I always enjoyed growing plants as a kid but more commonly you’d find me “rescuing” wildlife. As an adult, planting natives is perhaps way more effective at supporting wildlife than bandaging that injured garter snake ever was. Not nearly as exciting though, except I do like watching these adorable bees nap. Everyone has to slow down sometimes…may as well be next to a pile of food.
Anyhow, this is supposed to be a promotional post to convince you to come to the Saturday Market this weekend (5/30) to buy all my plants! It’ll be the first market of the season and I’ll even have some Globemallow plants!

04/26/2026

Hey folks! We’ve been growing hundreds of plants this spring to bring to the Spring Home and Garden Show at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds next Friday-Sunday (May 1-3). Below you’ll find a nearly complete list of the species I’ll have available in various sizes. If that’s totally overwhelming, I’ve put together some plant packs for pre-sale - just visit the website www.greatbasinnursery.com and scroll down to the pre-sale button to take you to the sales site.

Plant Species:

Threadleaf Fleabane
Cutleaf Fleabane
Scarlet Gilia
Sulphur Buckwheat
Mat Buckwheat
Creamy Buckwheat
Pasqueflower
Blue Flax
Lowly Penstemon
Firecracker Penstemon
Wild Ginger
Pacific Bleeding Heart
Small-flowered Penstemon
Cutleaf Penstemon
Western Columbine
Oregon Sunshine
Western Jacob’s Ladder
California Poppy
Wooly Groundsel
Hot Rock Penstemon
Western White Clematis
Orange Mountain Daisy
Munroe’s Globemallow
Pineleaf Penstemon
Blue-Eyed Grass
Mock Orange
Desert Peach
Roundleaf Alumroot
Desert Spray
Blue Elderberry
Arrowleaf Buckwheat
Pale Evening Primrose
Colorado Blue Columbine
Common Twinpod
And Bunchgrasses too!

04/11/2026

Out of sight, out of mind… but here in Central Oregon, drought is closer than we think.

We can turn on the faucet and it still runs, so it’s easy to forget, or disregard. But this pond tells a different story. This is our irrigation pond, now lined with fractured, dried-up clay after an incredibly dry winter.

It’s a powerful reminder of how connected we are to the seasons, and how much every drop matters. Here’s to being more aware, more mindful, and doing what we can to care for the water we all depend on.

08/23/2025

Save the date! Next month we will have our annual open house and fall plant sale. Fall is prime time to get natives in the ground - the weather’s cooler, the soil’s still warm, plants are cheaper and you won’t melt while planting. 🔥 Hoping to see some familiar faces and new ones too!

07/28/2025

Veggie garden visitor!

07/11/2025

This is the plant you’re seeing along the roadside and on your hikes - Scarlet Gilia! It’s a beautiful biennial that will reseed happily in your landscape and the hummingbirds really like to squabble over this one.

At the NWX Market tomorrow, I will have:

Lowly Penstemon
Richardson’s aka Cutleaf Penstemon
Western Yarrow
Sulphur Buckwheat
Cascade Stonecrop
Scarlet Gilia
Sickle-Keeled Lupine
Blue Flax
Shrubby Penstemon
Pineleaf Penstemon
Firecracker Penstemon
Munroe’s Globemallow
Douglas Spirea
Oregon Sunshine (limited quantities)
Pearly Everlasting
Prairie Smoke
Coyote Mint aka Western Pennyroyal
Fireweed
Showy Milkweed
Desert Sweet
Oak-leaved Sumac
Creamy Oceanspray
and maybe a couple others I forgot to mention…

07/06/2025

Build it and they will come!! 5…6 years later perhaps but who’s counting?

06/27/2025

See you tomorrow at the market! Hours are 10-2 and I’ll have the following packed along:

Showy Milkweed
Pineleaf Penstemon
Barbatus Penstemon
Lowly Penstemon
Small-flowered Penstemon
Glaucus Penstemon
Richardson’s/Cutleaf Penstemon
Cascade Penstemon
Firecracker Penstemon
Mock Orange
Twinberry
Oak-leaved Sumac
Pink Monkeyflower
Western Columbine
Munroe’s Globemallow
Hairy Yellow Aster
Oregon Sunshine
Cushion Buckwheat
Jacob’s Ladder (last two)
Pale Evening Primrose
Mountain Hollyhock
Roundleaf Alumroot
Sickle-Keeled Lupine
Western Yarrow
Sulphur Buckwheat
Creamy Buckwheat
Blue Flax

06/20/2025

2yr old volunteer Palmer’s Penstemon, seen here crowding out a very patient 4yr old Rock Buckwheat. These things can really steal the show - I’ve found them to be relatively short lived but if you can wait a year after they croak, you’ll find tons of new seedlings coming up.
Ok, and now for what I’m bringing to the market tomorrow:

Douglas Aster
Firecracker Penstemon
Hummingbird Mint
Desert Beardtongue
Rosy Pussytoes
Sulphur Buckwheat
Western Yarrow
Sickle-Keeled Lupine
Whipples Penstemon
Indian Blanketflower
Scarlet Gilia
Blue Flax
Oregon Sunshine
Munroe’s Globemallow
Prairie Smoke
Pineleaf Penstemon
Rocky Mountain Penstemon
Mock Orange
Desert Sweet
Twinberry
Palmer’s Penstemon (limited supply)
Pale Evening Primrose

And PS, please let me know if there’s a specific shrub you’d like to see, I don’t bring many because space is limited!

Address

63635 Deschutes Market Road
Bend, OR
97701

Telephone

+15418487703

Website

http://www.greatbasinnursery.com/

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