Echo Valley Natives

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!

It is peak pretty around the nursery! Everything has filled in with lush spring growth and there are so many blossoms bu...
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!

✨NEW SPECIES HIGHLIGHT!✨Claspleaf TwistedstalkStreptopus amplexifolius This is a unique woodland species that loves to g...
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 💚🐸🪻🦋

This Blueblossom hedgerow in one of our employee’s home garden is in peak form! It is literally SWARMING with insects l...
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!

Come visit us at the in Canby NEXT WEEKEND!We’ve been pulling all the pretties around the nursery so that we can showca...
04/28/2026

Come visit us at the in Canby NEXT WEEKEND!

We’ve been pulling all the pretties around the nursery so that we can showcase some of our best stuff at this awesome annual plant sale put on by the Clackamas County Master Gardeners. We have to say, we’re bringing a pretty nice looking selection of natives this year….tons of species variety, perennials and shrubs, many budded or blooming!

We upgraded to a double booth this year (H-25 right across from the new plant intro booth) And while the U-haul that carries the plants is still the same size…there will be more space for shoppers to browse! We expect it will be a busy weekend with the forecasted nice weather 😎 We’ll pack as much into the truck as we can!

It’s such a fun sale with so many other great vendors (more native plants! , garden art, veggie starts , unique ornamentals, and more!).

Don’t forget you can bring a wagon if you expect to find more than a few plant friends to take home 😉🪴🪴🪴 Or there’s always the free plant check or high schoolers taking donations to pull a wagon for you!

Don’t miss out—Saturday May 2 & Sunday May 3 at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds! See their website for more details, springgardenfair.org

And PS—our retail nursery is still open next weekend too if you’d rather visit us out there 🌲

It’s OFFICIALLY spring!!!Here’s a sampling of spring things we’ve been seeing around the nursery this month. Tender new ...
03/21/2026

It’s OFFICIALLY spring!!!

Here’s a sampling of spring things we’ve been seeing around the nursery this month. Tender new leaves emerging everywhere, flowers feeding early pollinators, and clamoring calls of chorus frogs and songbirds.
Are you feeling it??! 🌱

When the spring fever hits, we’re here for you 6 days a week! You can come browse around 200 PNW native plants in our inventory, peek for frog eggs in the pond, chat with us about all the nerdy nature things, and maybe even bring home some new plant friends to create backyard habitat in your garden!

M, T, Th, F, Sat—10-5
Sun—10-4
Wed—Closed

We’ve just updated our availability list for all of you planning your spring garden additions! Our list indicates what i...
03/10/2026

We’ve just updated our availability list for all of you planning your spring garden additions! Our list indicates what is currently in stock (X or L if low stock) and what is in the works to debut later this spring (IP—In Production). You can find the list posted on our website under the “plant list” tab.

We never know EXACTLY when plants in production will be ready for retail. It all depends on the weather and how the plants grow! Most will be out by late spring, some sooner. But if you’re really itching for an update, you can give us a call and we’ll do our best to give you a rough time estimate.

We’ll update the list occasionally throughout the spring as things come in and out of stock. But we do our best to offer a diverse selection at our nursery no matter when you stop by to shop!

We are now open for our longer spring & summer hours! No appointments needed to stop by during business hours:

10am-5pm daily, except:
10-4 Sundays
CLOSED Wednesdays

$5 each for bare root Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)!These are very nice med-large size pieces with great roots and mul...
02/23/2026

$5 each for bare root Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)!

These are very nice med-large size pieces with great roots and multiple stems. We can only offer them for a couple weeks before they break dormancy, so hurry on down to snag some!

Salmonberry is mostly known as one of our PNW edible berries. They produce red-orange raspberry type fruit (you know, a salmony color!) in late spring that wildlife & people enjoy snacking on. We have witnessed many a mama robin fly off with a Salmonberry in her beak in the spring woods!

People get so focused on the berries that they often don’t realize they have one of our most stunning spring flowers too!! But, we’re here to tell you that they are a bright fuchsia pink and one of our favorites.

Salmonberry is a shrub loves to live in damp, bright shade. You can often find them under alders near a creek side or helping stabilize a wet slope. But they are adaptable to garden conditions as well! If they are happy, they will form a small thicket over time. Sometimes giving them a little less of the water they love will help keep them in check!

If you need more native berries & pink flowers in your life, get yourself a Salmonberry! 🩷

As a native plant specialist nursery, we don’t make many exceptions for carrying non-Oregon species or cultivated select...
02/07/2026

As a native plant specialist nursery, we don’t make many exceptions for carrying non-Oregon species or cultivated selections. But when we do, it’s most likely for manzanita!

We have a small array of manzanitas in stock right now. They are great shrubs that often have cool architectural form, they’re adapted to our dry summers, and also check several other boxes many gardeners are looking for—evergreen foliage, early blooms, smaller size shrub for urban lots, etc.

The selections we currently have include:

Arctostaphylos manzanita—a species native to CA that can achieve heights 6’-25’

Arctostaphylos manzanita ‘Dr Hurd’—a cultivated selection of the above that has a tree-like form

Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Howard McMinn’—A handsome manzanita that generally stays under 8’ tall/wide.

Arctostaphylos X ‘Sunset’—A more compact/fuller manzanita whose smaller leaves emerge with pretty orange/red coloring that contrasts nicely against the older green leaves

Arctostaphylos X ‘Pacific Mist’ Lower growing and spreading manzanita with beautiful gray green foliage.

The first 2 are in 3 gallons for $45, the remaining are in 2 gallons for $30. Limited quantities available!

Unfortunately none of these are our locally native Hairy Manzanita (Arctostaphylos columbiana). If we had $1 for every time someone asked us for them, we’d have a lot more dollars than we’ve ever made selling them 😂 The columbiana are especially difficult to propagate and everyone wants them… this is the recipe for hard to find! We always recommend folks to other great nurseries like Xera, Cistus, or Dancing Oaks who are MUCH more dialed into the Arctostaphylos genus. Check them out if you want to go further down the manzanita rabbit hole!

Offering these manzanita selections is our little compromise to offer a great garden plant that is climate adapted and offers much more habitat value than the usual exotic landscaping plants!

We like to play a fun little phenology game by keeping track of the date that osoberry first blooms on the nursery prope...
02/03/2026

We like to play a fun little phenology game by keeping track of the date that osoberry first blooms on the nursery property. It’s always one of the first flowers of spring and its bloom time varies year to year, depending on the winter. There is one little patch of osoberry that always blooms earliest in the micro climate of the forested understory on the back part of the property. This is the one we go by! (It’s good to be consistent with individual because the timing can vary quite a bit from shrub to shrub, even within a short distance).

This year we saw the first Osoberry flower pop open on the last day of January! It’s the earliest we’ve ever seen it, although we’ve only been keeping track since 2022 😉 It’s no surprise with the VERY mild winter we’ve had so far. There’s definitely always a chance of late February snow! But it seems we might have dodged major winter storms this year (uh oh..we didn’t jinx it, did we???)

2022-23 was a colder winter with lots of low elevation snow, we still had some on the ground in March here in Sandy!! And no surprise the plants waited longer to wake up—it wasn’t until the end of March that we saw the first osoberry blooming on our property that year! Almost 2 months later than this year 🤯

If you pay attention to plants, you’ve probably noticed spring emerging a little earlier this year around you, too! Mid-February is average for Oregon spring to start breaking, but this year we saw lots of things waking up in early January!

We hope the mountains still pick up some late season snow, as everyone is a bit worried about what the next fire season could bring. We always feel a little guilty when we’re enjoying working in milder weather conditions during the winter as we worry about the ecological implications of less rain or mountain snow. But as plant people who work out in the elements all year round, we’re trying not to be TOO mad to see an early spring this time around! 🌱

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

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