Did you impulse-buy your summer color spots from the big box stores back in April?
Are you now itching to add unique additions to your deck containers, borders or beds?
Focus your attention on the extraordinary plants offered at a one-day garden market as part of the Lake Forest Park Garden Tour.
In the lower level of the Town Center Commons on June 20th is the Lake Forest Park Garden Market. It is free and open to the public. Not shipped from Canada or California, these plants are:
- Locally grown and propagated, thus acclimated to grow here in the Pacific Northwest
- Uncommon, native, and heirloom specimens
- Extremely varied: perennials, flowers, trees, ferns, groundcovers, pre-bonsai stock
Save your travel fuel and spend more time in your garden: these professional local growers are gathering at the Town Center, from
9:00am -3:00pm on June 20, 2026.
Check out their online plant lists – they could be growing and bring to market that inaccessible gem you’ve been searching for.
They can offer you insights on growing and propagating in their local neck of the woods: Woodinville, Port Orchard, Gig Harbour, Fall City, Kingston, Port Ludlow, and Shoreline.
These unique nurseries include:
The Lim Garden, Woodinville, WA.
Flowers serve as seasonal accents rather than the primary design driver.
Notable collections include Aucuba, Ligularia, Aspidistra, Polygonatum, Disporum, ferns, and broadleaf evergreens.
Earth Grown CreationsPort Orchard, WA.
Locally grown & propagated perennial flowers & shrubs suited to the Pacific Northwest.
Iris Fagerland, Proprietor
360-633-5893
irisfagerland@gmail.comFB pageearthgrowncreations.comEstablished in 2018, Earth Grown Creations offers nursery stock from its collection of over 1,400 varieties and cultivars that are hardy for the Greater Western Washington area.
Starts are very well rooted and are ready to be planted out in the landscape.
Blue Frog Garden NurseryGig Harbor, WA.
As a rule, all of their plant material is propagated and grown to size on site.
Offering plant material exclusively at local area specialty plant sales and their own annual Open Garden event.
Celestial Dream Gardens, Kingston, WA. Growing interesting & unusual perennials & shrubs.
Celeste Erickson, Proprietor
360-297-8028
celestialdreamgardens@hotmail.comFB Celestial Dream Gardens Established twenty years ago, Celestial Dream Gardens is a small local Kingston nursery and landscaping company priding itself on its healthy, hardy plants, most of which are cultivated on site.
Their local emphasis reduces environmental impacts and improves community ties.
Their inventory is known as “both tried and true or rare and few”.
Chimacum Woods, Port Ludlow, WA. Kruckeberg Botanic Garden/MsK Nursery Shoreline, WA.
Quality Pacific Northwest common natives and rare species for home gardeners and enthusiasts.
Sourcing organic and sustainably grown plants beyond common native species, they sell harder-to-find and unusual natives, plus the select hardy exotics that are featured throughout the Kruckeberg Botanic Garden.
Lee Farm & Nursery, Fall City, WA.
Specializing in perennials, hardy fuchsias, shrubs, scented geraniums, herbs, grasses & trees.
Carrie and Dean Lee, Owners/Growers
425-531-1331
Leefarm2@gmail.comFB pageLee Farm and Nursery | Wholesale Perennials Operating since 1994 and among the earliest and most visited participants in Lake Forest Park Garden Market, Lee Farm and Nursery offers incredibly diverse specimens to fill the voids in your garden.
It is known for its well-informed and personable staff, and their plants are reasonably priced and of high quality.
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