The nursery industry is big business in Oregon, but most members of the general public will never get to see what goes on behind their gates.  Many of the nurseries in the Willamette Valley are huge wholesale operations that sell their plants all across the country, but they don’t sell to the public.

My old buddy Don Blocker, who reps for the distributor McHutchison, was in town this week with some clients and generously invited me to tag along.

Here’s a little of what we saw…

We started at Bountiful Farms, an amazing 550-acre nursery located in Woodburn.  We didn’t even have to get out of the car to see the first cool item.  These birch tree “umbrellas” were planted in the parking lot island.

We had bought from Bountiful when I worked at Ammon Nursery in Northern Kentucky, but I truly was not prepared for what I would see.