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Echo Valley Natives

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Echo Valley Natives

Echo Valley Natives is family-run retail nursery that specializes in Pacific Northwest Native Plants. Open 6 days a week, year round to retail customers.

Retail Nursery specializing in Pacific Northwest Native Plants
Open 6 days a week to the public, year-round
Family-Run, Sustainable and Ethical
Sandy, Oregon (formerly Oregon City) The nursery first sprouted up along the banks of Abernethy Creek in 2001, but relocated to Sandy, OR in 2021. Our goal has always been to offer high quality plants at affordable prices. We strive to maintain a large selection of plant species native to the Pacific Northwest. Come out and visit!

09/05/2026

Who else is loving this early hint of fall!!? Thank you Mother Nature for a beautiful dose of rain!

This is your reminder that we still have a GREAT sale going on Coyote Bush! A superstar evergreen shrub that’s tough enough to roll with the punches.

We had a mast year of seedlings sprout up around the nursery a couple years back and we’re sharing the love by selling these at wholesale prices!!
4”—$3.50
1gal—$7
2gal—$16

They are all very nice size and would LOVE to get in the ground this fall!

Coyote Bush are just coming into bloom, so we’ll be able to start ID’ing each shrub to see if it’s a female or male. The one pictured is male—they glow gold in bloom! The females have wispy white flowers and bear the seeds, but only if they have been pollinated by a nearby male! Watch for pink (female) or blue (male) ribbons tied to the shrubs to know which is which!

Sale is ongoing until we knock down our inventory! And we have so many other great natives in stock—come out and celebrate fall rains by bringing home some new plant friends! 🌧️ 🪴

Open 10-5 for walk in retail shopping, except 10-4 on Sundays and CLOSED Weds!

08/26/2026

Fall gardening season is creeping in, are you planning yet??!

We have finally updated our availability list for all you planning types out there! It’s a nice long list with about 200 PNW native species in stock—from wildflowers/grasses/sedges, up to shrubs and trees! You can find it on our website, give us a ring if you have further questions. And we promise to update it often as we dive into the best time of year to get perennial natives into the ground! We will be adding more plants to the inventory occasionally throughout fall.

Of course, you don’t HAVE to plan ahead! At Echo Valley you don’t need an appointment or pre-order to shop! Just stop by during retail hours and you can wander at your own pace around our almost 1 acre retail space. Or you can ask for help/advice from one of our staff! There are really only 3 of us running the show out here—Owner Beth, Renee (that’s me, hi!), and Hannah! We all love to hear about your projects and help you select plants, if we have time. The more you know about your garden conditions and goals, the better we can help you 😉

And psst—if you’re still here, we are gearing up for another FALL SALE! This Fall will mark 5 years in our new space in Sandy and 25 years since Beth started the nursery in Oregon City! Good cause for a sale, we say!! We will announce more details soon, but you can plan on finding some of the best deals in town on select native species from September 25–Oct 11! Save the dates 🌟

08/15/2026

August vibes around Echo Valley—flowers, fruit, & faded light through wildfire haze. Late summer bloomers have entered the arena and it’s starting to feel like summer’s on the downward slope! If you pay attention, you can already notice the shifting patterns of light as the sun starts to drop lower on the horizon each day.

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes with our small team to grow on our seedlings so they’ll be ready for a fall debut! We’ll have a really nice selection for ya, both shrubs and perennial flowers! We promise to update our posted availability list soon..In between taking care of the nursery and squeezing in some last fun moments before summer slips away! Enjoy these last few weeks of August & clear air while we have it!

07/18/2026

What a lovely summer we’re having! No harsh heat waves and cooling summer storms have the plants looking happy and healthy! We hope you are getting out and enjoying all the beauty that is summer in the PNW.

If you’re driving up Mt Hood for some fun, feel free to stop by for a visit! We’re just off HWY 26, so lots of folks stop by to stretch their legs and get some inspiration for their native gardens. We’re hanging out here all summer keeping plants watered, potting up seedlings, and the like. But we usually have more time to help you brainstorm the perfect plants for your projects this time of year!

If ya can’t make it in person, here’s a sampling of a few things that we’ve been enjoying lately around Echo Valley! This fall will be 5 years in our new nursery space in Sandy. Hard to believe! But every year it’s getting prettier and prettier out here and even MORE full of life thanks to the power of native plants! 😍💚🌻

07/11/2026

SUMMER SALE ON COYOTE BUSH!
Baccharis piluaris
1 gallons—$7 (previously $12!)
2 gallons—$16 (previously $24!)
Sale is on until we knock down our inventory, get ‘em while they’re hot!

Mama Coyote Bush had a giant litter of pups at Echo Valley last year and now it’s time to find them new homes! Coyote Bush is a dioecious plant, meaning separate male and female individuals. We have both sexes planted in our native hedgerow at the nursery and last year we had a mast year for seedlings! Literal hundreds sprung up in the wood chips at the feet of their mama (and some surprisingly far away!) We potted up a bunch of them over the winter and, as most kids do, they are growing up way too fast and need to fledge the nest! Are you looking to adopt a great drought tolerante native shrub to your home garden?

Coyote Bush is a fantastic evergreen shrub that’s almost bullet proof. Unlike other evergreen natives like Manzanita or Ceanothus that can be fussier to establish or prune in the garden, Baccharis seem to tolerate a wide variety of soil types (including heavy clay) and is VERY easy to prune! In fact, you can cut it back to a literal stump and it will regenerate in one growing season (we had to do this to our mama coyote this year as she got a bit floppy).

Many of our other native evergreen shrubs also get rather tall, whereas coyote will likely stay under 8 feet (and if they do get bigger, it’s very easy to maintain them to a smaller size!). Add in drought tolerance, late season flowers for pollinators, and boom you’ve got yourself a great garden habitat plant!

The 1 gallon plants are all seedlings from around the nursery and we haven’t seen them flower yet, so it is unknown whether they are male or female. We’re assuming it’s about 50/50 shot (although this isn’t always the case…we shall see!) The 2 gallons we have on sale were mostly grown by another grower, most of which are female ID’d (pink ribbon). We are excited to have the genetic diversity in our seedling batch!

Hopefully this plethora of seedlings is a ‘problem’ we have every couple years so we can keep supplying coyotes to the masses at great deals!

06/27/2026

Here are some shots from around the nursery taken during the warm sun rays last week. Our rock garden alongside the pond is spilling over with all kinds of pretty PNW wildflowers! We planted the majority of this just last summer and it has already filled in nicely. And it’s proof you can plant during the summer as long as you’re able to provide supplemental water & care!

Lots of our sunnier native flowers have been loving the opportunity to shine in the heat! However this little shift to cooler & rainy temperatures this week will be a nice way to hydrate and reset before summer commences for real (usually about the 4th of July is the ‘real’ start to our summer drought). The air smelled so fresh & clean around the nursery yesterday. This week might be the last measure-able rain we’ll see for a few months, so get outside & try to enjoy it!

06/06/2026

It is peak pretty around the nursery! Everything has filled in with lush spring growth and there are so many blossoms buzzing with pollinators. We’re seeing lots of newly fledged baby birdies, the Douglas Squirrels who live by our potting table are so so busy (feeding babies?), and of course we’re about to have a new small army of amphibians once all the pollywogs in the pond metamorph up to the next life stage!

It’s best seen in person, you should really stop by just to witness it all, even if you don’t have a planting project. But if you ARE still shopping for plants (is there a true plant nerd who is never not looking for the next new plant??), we have to tell you that the nursery is super well stocked! It’s always a bit of a dilemma in the nursery world—we have the best plants ready right as spring is winding down. But, if you can provide supplemental water and TLC thru the summer, it’s definitely not too late to plant! In fact, the forecast the next few days is very nice plant installing weather 😉

We have all of these pictured species for sale (at least as of the time of this post!) Not all of them have made it onto our availability sheet yet (we are plant people not computer people 😆), but that’s why it never hurts to stop by the nursery and see what treasures there are to find! Open every day of the week except Wednesdays!

05/23/2026

✨NEW SPECIES HIGHLIGHT!✨

Claspleaf Twistedstalk
Streptopus amplexifolius

This is a unique woodland species that loves to grow in damp places near seeps and creeks. As its name implies, it shoots up a ‘twisted’ zigzag stalk in spring that rises to a foot or two in height. And one of its defining features is that the leaves neatly clasp around the stem of the stalk where they meet, like a little hug. Individual white flowers dangle like teensy spiders below the stalk, which then ripen into beautiful oblong red fruit. These are also commonly called Watermelon Berry as they are edible and indeed have a watery-melonly flavor. (Always be careful with ID before you go snacking on wild red berries…some things are only edible once ☠️)

Twistedstalk are similar in appearance to some of our Prosartes species (Fairy bells/lanterns), which also rise a notch above the groundcover layer and sport red-orange berries after flowering. Many of our native woodland species bloom in the spring, so we love a plant that brings interest into the summer and fall by showing off colorful fruit! (We have both P smithii and P hookeri in stock, too)

We harvested the seed for these from a handful of berries back in late summer 2022. They were growing up along a creek in the foothills of Mt. Hood, about 8 miles east of our nursery. Like many members of its Lily family, this one is sloowwww to grow from seed! They look like a blade of grass for the first year or two. But now, in their 4th growing season, these little Streptopus babies are starting to form their twisted stalks and are ready to plant out in your woodland garden!

We also have a nice specimen one planted at our nursery that blooms and fruits, if you’d like to see one in person. It’s budded currently! We just planted out a few of these new babies so that we have more genetic diversity on site, too. But it’ll still be another year or two before they bloom. But they’re on their way! And for the low price of $7, you can take one home and cut off 4 years of the journey from seed to bloom in your garden 😉

Our availability list was just updated on our website, we have a great selection, come out and visit!

05/12/2026

Spring 2026 vibes around Echo Valley 💚🐸🪻🦋

05/08/2026

This Blueblossom hedgerow in one of our employee’s home garden is in peak form! It is literally SWARMING with insects large and small on these sunny warm afternoons we’ve been having. A treasure trove for many thousands of little beings!

Also known as California Lilac (Ceanothus thrysiflorus), it is an evergreen shrub native to Oregon along the southern coast. Ceanothus are pioneer species that grow quickly (live fast, die young) and fix nitrogen into the soil (give back to the world after they’re gone). They are extremely drought tolerant once established and generally prefer sun and well-draining soil.

This particular hedgerow, however, was planted into heavy clay soil in a tough area about 6 years along the side of the property. No amendments, no special treatment—just chunked them straight into the pasture grass/weeds and native soil and watered them in. And as you can see, they’re doing just fine! They were watered weekly through the first summer, and then let run free ever since (except for occasional pruning).

The main goal here was an evergreen privacy screen from a neighboring driveway, so they were planted fairly close together, about 5’-6’ on center. By the second or third year, they were touching each other and now at year 6 they are 12-15’ tall and a solid wall of greenery year round and powdery blue blossoms during late spring.

If we could change anything, we might have spaced them a tad farther apart (just to give them more room to maximize their awesomeness). Or considered interplanting them with another native species, like Pacific Wax Myrtle, which are longer lived shrubs for the sad but inevitable time when the ceanothus peter out.

Nevertheless, we have zero regrets about this row of beauty! The most important thing is that it got planted in a space that was once ecologically dead, and it is now buzzing with life and being appreciated by all!!! Get out there, plant a native, and make a difference in the world!

Address

19300 SE Longstreet Lane
Sandy, OR
97055

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+15038266026

Website

http://echovalleynatives.com/

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