Far Reaches Farm

A small nursery focusing on unusual perennials & bulbs and drifting into a few woodies and alpines.

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Fresh out of gift ideas for that gardening friend?

We offer gift certificates in any amount which can be redeemed for some pretty neat plants here at the nursery or at any of our off-site plant sales where we are own cashier such as the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle or the Fronderosa Frolic in August at Gold Bar.

Volunteer opportunities abound here at the Farm.

Transplanting, potting and what have you. A chance to learn some professional techniques and be exposed to some pretty fun plants. "Will work for plants!" Give us a call if you are interested.

Help sponsor our next collecting trip.

Of course you would get some of the progeny of the seed collections but mainly it is something to feel good about. We take detailed collection notes and distribute suitable material to various Botanic Gardens and firmly believe that we are helping preserve biodiversity as many species are under enormous pressure from habitat degradation.

Welcome to Far Reaches Farm!

Sue Milliken & Kelly Dodson, proprietors

Directions:

It's simple—head into Port Townsend and take a left on Sheridan just past the QFC. You will go 3/4 of a mile and find a stop sign on 19th. Go straight through that until you come to the next stop sign which is Hastings. Turn left and go 1/3 mile and you will see the 1818 polka dot mailbox and turn right into our driveway and park out in the field watching out for Canela and Callie, our nursery overseers, who are brilliant in all things except cars. Please come only on our open days or by appointment. We'll have sandwich board signs out on our open days.

What’s Growing On...

October 23 and this is the last weekend we will be open until next March. We have marked down 50% some real good plants such as Hedychium gracile and Billbergia nutans to name a couple. Plus we have some great Colchicums and Eremurus available.

Work is coming along nicely on the bog garden and we have the bed prepared for the Sarracenia collection. We are also starting to get the contours set on the big front bed which has long been an eyesore and are looking forward to getting that planted. It would be ideal if we could plant out a greenhouse full into the two gardens so we could free up some space this winter.

We were talking to Jason the other day in the greenhouse and he asked us if knew how many taxa we had in the nursery. After reminding him that inventory was somewhere in his job duties(we have dumped a lot on him), we said we really had no idea but did he have any guesses? He thought 5000 was a conservative guess and we agreed. It really is a bit crazed this plant acquisition bug we have.

It finally feels like Fall. A lot of the fall color around here is on the brown side due to the dry summer but we have some hope for rain tonight. We hope to be doing a fair bit of planting in the next 2 months as we get our new gardens planted and a bit of editing on the old ones.

Hard to look ahead to next year and the resurrection of the Northwest Flower and Garden Show but we are doing it again and have been ramping up propagation of some cool plants for sale there. We're siphoning a few off for sale this fall here at the nursery so it is a bit of a sneak preview.

Shade garden at Far Reaches Farm

David is going to be removing his pieces at the end of October to take them to a solo show in New York. It is a prestigious show and we are thrilled for him. The boy is going places! We have enjoyed offering 5 pieces of David (Ike) Eisenhour's (www.eisenhoursculpture.com) work in our new garden. Ike does fabulous bronze and steel sculpture of seeds and is currently exhibiting at the National Arboretum. It has long been a dream of ours to incorporate an outdoor art gallery into our gardens and Ike's work is a pefect melding of image and reality. Far Reaches Farm and the United States National Arboretum - kinda like it!

For the latest news, read Kelly's blog...

We're glad you stopped by to view what's new. Come back soon!
—Kelly & Sue