Bremerton City Nursery: A Second Look

After leaving City People's Garden Store, I considered coming home and playing in the garden in the sunshine.  Instead, the plant mobile took me to Bremerton City Nursery which I'd visited for the first time in November of last year. (Post here.)  What a treat it was to discover a new place and how sad that it was toward the end of the season.  Here are a few of the many great offerings.

I wonder if those pots get planted up later or if they're decorative just the way they are. 

 The outdoor areas are beginning to fill up.  How exciting!

Ranunculus with their many delicate looking petals fascinate me.   

 I've not grown them since my Alaska gardening days where we lifted the tubers that look like little bunches of bananas each fall and stored them inside.

They probably need the same treatment here because they don't like our wet winters and critters love to eat them.

So enjoying them at nurseries is enough.  Do you grow these outside as perennials?  What kind of luck do you have?  Do you stuff them into pots as seasonal color and discard them when they're done blooming?

On to more fun stuff from the nursery -  This sun room area was added at the same time as my garage finished its surgery to change it into a greenhouse.  It was fun to compare notes with one of the owners about our first winter with new green house spaces.

The tag from the grower said only "Octopus Agave."  Could this be Agave vilmoriniana?  This one is pretty fragile, the leaves tearing easily.  It was also inexpensive so it came home with me.

I'm seeing Euphorbia flanaganii  on the market more lately. Their unusual and a bit unpredictable growth habit makes me love them!

This idea will be copied!  Replacing votive candle holders with terra cotta pots of sedum  or tillandsias is inspired!  One more thing to keep one's eyes peeled for at thrift shops!

A nice pot of fire sticks jumped in my cart as well.  Someone left his outside last fall.  Before you tell me that I should fire the firm that maintains my garden,  (Me, Myself, and I, a lazy lot but they work for nothing.) you should know that the plant had some sort disfiguring insect pest that wasn't responding to organic interventions and I didn't want to drag bad bugs into the greenhouse.

Aloe "Blue Elf"

Of course, hellebores wer everywhere.  

Because I was busy grabbing inexpensive tillandsias, I forgot to take pictures of them but they had just received a nice assortment from Little Prince of Oregon!  Bremerton City Nursery packs a lot of quality and varied merchandise into their space and is worth a visit if you're ever in the area!

Wishing you many happy garden surprises!

The End!

Time for a Sunny Saturday Nursery Field Trip: Bremerton City Nursery

To avoid actually working in my garden on Saturday, I jumped in the car and drove west to visit a couple of nurseries on the Kitsap Peninsula.  Today, let's stroll around Bremerton City Nursery.

The colorful Euphrobia 'Ascot Rainbow' is at it's best this time of year. 

Tiny Narcissus 'Tet a tete Boucle' is kind of sweet.

Anemones always look so good in nurseries but someone usually forgets to include them in his fall bulb orders. 

Some people have tidy lists of plants they'd like to try, even nice pages on their blogs. Someone you may know has random-sized and colored post-it notes stuck to the side of his computer desk.  These are mixed with notes containing the botanical names of a few plants that I already have but can never recall.  Anyway, a few years ago I read some author's work about fragrant plants.  Cistus 'Blanche' was a favorite for the ressionous fragrance of the leaves.  I made a note and added it to the collage.  What a nice surprise to find the very Cistus I'd searched for so many years ago.   The leaves did have a pleasant fragrance but  where would I put another shrub?    I may regret not bringing one home but there were quite a few still at the nursery so who knows.

Primula vulgaris  delivers a good dose of riotous warm color that's just the thing for some spring zing.

The perennial area will have filled out quite a bit with our recent few days with  temperatures near 80 degrees.

Pink new growth of Thymus vulgaris 'Silver Posie' 

No nursery is complete without a friendly greeter!

Ah, citrus in bloom. 

Time to stock up on tender succulents if you didn't winter them over inside. 

"There's always an Agave."

Did I remember to take a picture of the tag so I'd be able to tell you which Alocasia this is?  Nope but it's visually stunning even without a name.

Here's what hitched a ride with me. The oxalis and some of the primroses are to give to the paraeducators in my program  but the succulents are for me. 

Visiting Bremerton City Nursery

What's better than visiting a nursery for the first time?  Finding out that it's a great place that you'll want to revisit often!  That's just what happened when I visited Bremerton City Nursery last weekend.

I love the entrance arbor and wonder what might have been in those pots on the roof earlier this year.

The nursery is much bigger than it appears from the street and that space is packed with great plants!

 And there is a sun room full of treasures!

 Like this delicious display of tender succulents.

I fell for one of these Solanum pseudocapsicum (Jerusalem Cherry) 

Fun lucite ornaments!

Seems like there was something for everyone here whether you garden on a very small scale

or a considerably larger one.

 Saturday was delightfully sunny, a welcome break from the gray days earlier in the week!  A little plant-centric retail therapy in the sun is just what the doctor ordered!

There's also a coffee shop with outdoor seating on the deck.  

Even as many of the plants are closing up shop for the winter, Helleborus niger is starting to bloom.

Sempervivum  carrying on.

Symphoricarpos x doorenbosii 'Kolmgala'  (Snowberry) is looking lovely.  I was sorely tempted to bring one home but didn't.

Golden autumn foliage on a ginkgo.    

One of the things that I found especially cool about this place is that, while they had holiday stuff as well, their emphasis was still on plants.  I got a Brugmansia 'Jean Pasco,' a variety new to me from the sale area.

The knowledgeable and very nice young woman at the shop gave us a  lesson about wintering carpenter bees when I inquired about a project laid out on a table.  Seems there had been a presentation earlier in the day.  What a treat to learn something new about these fascinating creatures.

What a fun place. There was also an inside shop packed with garden-related stuff and nicely selected gift ware.   Sorry that there aren't any images it the coolness inside; someone got carried away looking at everything!

For more information about this delightful (and open year round) nursery, check out their website here or better yet, go visit in person!  

Visiting Bremerton City Nursery

Bremerton City Nursery packs a lot of great plants, stuff, and even a coffee shop into their smallish space.  Seems like every time I visit they've added something different.

Evergreen goodness!

You've perhaps seen this fruit, Buddha's hand, for sale.  What a fun surprise to see this fruiting plant.

Citrus medica var. sarcodactylus was tempting but stayed at the nursery. 

These were also pretty swell but I'm trying not to buy any more house plants.

Some of their class offerings each year are about things to do with succulents.  Their arrangements are always very well done.

I think these planters came in planted this way. 

The inside part of the shop is a treasure trove of great gift ware - something for everyone!

Instant succulent chic!  These are showing up at a few nurseries this spring.  Longer lasting than cut flowers and far less expensive as well, these would be great hostess gifts.

Euphorbia flanaganii always tickles my funny bone.  

Help me, this followed me home and I'm not sure what to plant in it.  there's a larger opening in the top and the smaller ones you can see in the sides.  What do you think?

I've still got some great plants in my garden that came from BCN sale tables!

These Muscari 'Golden Fragrance' have a delightful scent and on sale are a great bargain.  You should get some!

A nursery gearing up for spring, with new merchandise arriving daily makes my heart sing!

If you ever find yourself in Bremerton, on the way back from Heronswood perhaps, you won't want to miss this special, friendly, and fun spot!