Celebrating 39 Years

MsK Rare Plant Nursery is now part of the Kruckeberg Botanic Garden Foundation as of February 11, 2008.  Located within the 50-year-old Kruckeberg Botanic Garden in Richmond Beach (northwest of Seattle) the MsK Rare Plant Nursery carries on the loving work of the late Mareen S. Kruckeberg, who sought to provide unusual plants for the budding botanist and the garden connoisseur alike. Here you can see what your plants will look like in 50 years! Specialties include: Native plants for sun or shade; conifers, oaks; rarities from the Siskiyou mountains and alpine areas of the Pacific Northwest; forest floor plants, species lilies, trilliums, and erythroniums.

   Erythronium revolutum     Cyclamen hederifolium    Garrya x issaquahensis   Mahonia piperiana

We carry a diverse stock of shrubs, vines and trees that form the “backbone” of a good garden. Many of our selections are hard to find in the general trade. Choice varieties of native shrubs, such as Ribes sanguineum “White Icicle,” or the Silk Tassel bush Garrya x issaquahensis, are examples of time-tested winners that we carry at the nursery.