The Plant Locator?

The Plant Locator?
Western Region

Over 60,000 plant entries, including cross references to alternate names.

Listings for 330+ retail nurseries, both mail order and walk-in.

Covers the entire western region of the United States, plus British Columbia.

Tells you where to go in your area to find the plants you've been looking for and which nurseries have display gardens - or - how to order those plants by mail, from anywhere in the country.

Common name/botanical name index, cross-referenced to plants listed in the book.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Plant Locator? lists over 50,000 plants offered at retail nurseries throughout the western USA and British Columbia, including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

The book is a compendium of plants, organized alphabetically by botanical name, with cross references to alternate names. The plant names are followed by codes representing the nurseries that carry the plant.

Complete information about the nurseries, organized by state, then listed aphabetically, is found in the next section of the book: how to locate them, whether they are walk-in or mail order, what they specialize in, whether they have display gardens, and whether they take credit cards, as well as their hours, phone numbers, email addresses, and websites.

Although nursery listings are accurate to 2004, our publication date, changes do occur. Even though you won't find cultivars brought to market after 2004, and a few nurseries may have changed ownership, most nursery information is valid, and most nurseries continue to stock the same plants, or can direct you to alternate sources.

USING THE BOOK IS EASY

Just look up the botanical name of the plant you're searching for. If you don't know the botanical name, first look up the common name in the common name/botanical name index. Click here to see a sample page.

Across from the botanical name, you'll see the codes of the nurseries that carry that plant. Flip to the nursery section and look for the nursery code; you'll find which nursery each code stands for and all the details about the nurseries. Click here for the list of nurseries in this edition.

A DEFINITIVE NOMENCLATURE RESOURCE

Gardeners and nursery people alike can use The Plant Locator? as a definitive source for correct botanical nomenclature and spelling. We have checked each listed name against resources such as the RHS Plant Finder (a similar sourcebook for British nurseries, backed by the botanical research of the Royal Horticultural Society), Hortus III, the RHS Index of Garden Plants, and the A-Z Encyclopedia Of Garden Plants, as well as online references and experts and breeders of different genera.

Although some botanical name changes have undoubtedly occurred since 2004, our publication date, we can ensure the accuracy of our nomenclature up to that time. We recommend the current edition of the RHS Plant Finder for the most recent changes. The information in this book can be accessed online at RHS.org.uk.

AVAILABILITY

This valuable reference was co-published by Black-Eyed Susans Press and Timber Press in 2004. It is no longer generally available; however, in the summer of 2008, it was on the shelves of Powells Books in Portland, OR and was listed on amazon.com.

NOTE to NURSERY OWNERS and PUBLISHERS

There are currently no plans to publish a future edition of The Plant Locator? , although we recognize the value of this excellent resource. Nurseries continue to ask to be included; we are sorry that we are unable at this time to honor those requests. We do welcome, however, inquiries by publishers; we would love to do a new edition if a publisher is interested. Because there is no charge to nurseries for listings, we would need financial support to continue this valuable work.