The following plants are available for summer shipping, pick up at the farm or at the Olympia Farmer's Market.
Burnt Ridge Nursery is open for drop-ins and plant browsing this summer! We have a beautiful selection of potted plants available. Some even have fruit on them! Several varieties are in pulp pots to reduce transplant shock and to make summer transplanting a breeze. Staff will be on hand to answer questions and to help you make selections.
Summer Drop-in Nursery hours: M-F 9:00am to 4:00pm and Sat-Sun 9:00am to 3:00pm
During the summer, the shipping costs are higher because the plants have to be shipped in pots. During the summer WA, OR, ID and CA orders are shipped via UPS. All other states are shipped via priority mail (3 day transit time). Orders that are shipped in summer or fall are not guaranteed.
Light blue berries with great flavor. A lowbush type that forms a dense shrub to 12 inches high. Glossy round leaves, nice red color in the fall. Brunswick blueberry is hardy to Zone 3-7.
A spectacular, fast growing ornamental. A mass of vanilla-like fragrant lavender-blue flower that cover the tree before leaves emerge. Sometimes called Fox-glove tree due to the blossoms resemblance to foxgloves. Huge, heart-shaped leaves are up to 2 ft. broad. The edible flowers from an Empress Tree can be added to salads and can make a good honey. Valuable wood for cabinetry and has been traditionally used in Japan for making stringed musical instruments. Easy to grow in full sun. Native to Asia. Also known as "Royal Paulownia" named after the daughter of a Russian Tsar. Zone 6-9.
A low spreading shrubby groundcover distantly related to blueberries with somewhat similarly sweet fruit. It is able to bear under shady conditions. Self-pollinating. Berried Treasure Box Huckleberry prefers acidic soils. Only about a foot tall, it spreads wide over time. Pink flowers in June. Late summer ripening, leaves turning dark red in autumn. Native to Eastern North America. Zone 5.
Our native hazel. Beaked Hazel trees have small, thick shelled nuts enclosed in a bristly husk. Shy bearing. Late flowering, early ripening, blight immune. Zone 4-8. Plant 2 or more for nuts. CANNOT BE SHIPPED TO OREGON.
White seedless dessert grape of exceptional flavor. Medium berries, loose clusters, earliest ripening. Interlaken Grape makes great raisins. Zone 5-10.
Smaller fruits than fuzzy kiwi, hardy kiwis have sweeter, smooth skinned fruits and much earlier ripening. Ananasnaya produces fruit in large clusters of "kiwi berries." Vigorous growth with pretty, fragrant flowers. Sun or shade tolerant. Needs a Male hardy kiwi for pollination. Hardy to -25° F.
Pink flowers with bright red berries in midsummer, blooms again in summer for a fall crop. The small tart berries are produced in clusters and can be eaten fresh or made into delicious jam. Koralle lingonberry is a spreading evergreen groundcover that needs an acidic soil. Grows in sun to part shade.
Heavy yielding Pacific Northwest selected variety. The fruit has a pleasant, somewhat tart flavor with slight astringency when fully ripe. Fragrant dull yellow flowers cover the bush in March and draw many pollinators. Carmine goumi is a large shrub that grows to about 15 ft. A nitrogen fixer that tolerates maritime exposure. Zone 5-9.
Beautiful, deciduous, vigorous climbing vine, Hayward Females Fuzzy Kiwis produce the same fruit as found in grocery stores. Very productive and good keeper. Established vines are hardy to about - 2° F. Needs the Male Kiwi Pollinator "Matua".
Medium to large purplish black fruit with sweet amber flesh. Beall Fig is a good California selection where it ripens 2 crops; in Western Washington it ripens one crop
They are one of the tallest living things on earth and are able to survive for over a thousand years. Native conifers to Pacific Coast forests and famously in Redwood National Park. Upright pyramidal form and can develop a buttress at the base. It does well on a damp acidic soil high in organic matter. Coastal Redwood is highly valued tree with rot resistant wood. Not as hardy as Giant Sequoia and it will do poorly in dry soil. Zone 7-8.
