About Northwest Garden Nursery

 Specializing in Hellebores

In the early 1990s we began dabbling in hellebore breeding, having obtained some good hellebore seed from Will McLewin in the UK and Gisela Schmiemann in Germany. We then upgraded our hellebore breeding operation with a trip to England and Holland, bringing back first-rate breeding stock from Ashwood Nursery, Blackthorn Nursery, and de Hessenhof, many of which are the venerable ancestors of our own breeding efforts.

Finally, after many enjoyable and busy years of selling retail here at the nursery and at many area plant sales, we decided that we needed to concentrate our efforts toward our main love of creating and providing hybrid hellebores of superior quality to wholesale nurseries, as well as to our customers here at Northwest Garden Nursery.

New Directions for the Nursery

in 2023, after more than 30 years hybridizing hellebores and creating many new varieties, we have come to a time in our lives when we need to pass the torch. We are very pleased and gratified to find Little Prince of Oregon who are willing to take on the breeding and sales of Winter Jewels® hellebores and continue our legacy. We are convince that they will do a fabulous job and that we can look forward to improvements and new developments in the future.

Hellebore Open Garden Days

For many years now, we have had a Hellebore Open Garden Days retail event here at the nursery in February and early March at which people can come to see hellebores growing in the garden and purchase them in bloom. Little Prince is excited to continue the tradition, with the added benefit of the sale at the same time of their choice line of unusual and well-grown perennials–an event not to be missed! Please follow their social media on Facebook or Instagram, and subscribe to their newsletter on their website for details about the hellebore sale dates for 2024.