Our Plants
Langley Fine Gardens Customer Favorites
Frequently customers express gratitude: our plants have brought them success, where before things hadn’t worked out. Why do our plants succeed? We measure success by how well a plant performs in the customer’s gardens. It is not enough for us to grow a plant that looks good in the 4” pot on the retailer’s shelf (though that is a crucial first step) – the plant must grow into a thing of beauty in the garden, and if it is a vegetable, it must be productive and flavorful.
Our ethic is to ensure this success by focusing on quality, and education of the customer through frequent Facebook posts with tips, recipes, and ideas for getting the most out of your garden.
Some of our specialties include dried floral crafting plant varieties—strawflowers, statice, poppies that make cool seed heads, ornamental corn in a color range from pale pink to sky blue, cut flowers for bouquets—cosmos, scabiosa, gomphrena, snapdragons, sunflowers, zinnias, and purple Trachelium, to name a few.
Fragrant Flowers
Fragrant flowers—over 30 varieties of heirloom sweet peas, 12 varieties of nicotiana, hot pink and gold-flowered fragrant trailing linaria flamenco, Mirabilis Four O'Clocks in many colors and, the sublime night-blooming flowers of Zalusianskya and Mattholias bicornus.
Pacific NW Native Annuals
Pacific Northwest Native Annuals—Phacelia, Nemophila, Gilia, and Limnanthes—we grow these out here at the farm, and save our own seed because many seeds are not available commercially. These annuals are invaluable for feeding native pollinators like bumblebees, honeybees, Mason bees, and the many, many species of pollinating wasps that need a little extra help during our often cold and rainy spring season.
Hummingbird Favorites
Cupheas, Eccremocarpus Chilean Glory vines, and Salvias-- these flowers are much sought after by our native Anna's Hummingbirds who remain here all year round, and our visiting Rufous Hummingbirds who arrive in February and make our area their spring and summer nesting and baby-rearing home site. If you plant these flowers every Spring, you won't need to use hummingbird feeders full of sugar water for Summer and Fall, as the nectar provided by the flowers will attract hummingbirds to your garden and keep hummingbirds visiting every day.
Annual Flowering Vines
Annual Flowering Vines—Cobaea Cup and Saucer, Grandpa Otts, Heavenly Blue, Mina Lobata Sunset Vine, many varieties of Scarlet Runner Bean, and the wonderful Rhodochiton Purple Bell Vine are probably the varieties of annual vines that we are best known for growing. Need something fun for a sunny wall, chain link fence, or quick summer privacy screen? Plant an annual vine! Many of these also attract Hummingbirds as well.
Rare Plants
When we first started our plant nursery in 1996, we were very focused on growing plants that we had only read about or only seen in botanical gardens, plants that were not commercially available from retail nurseries, and if you were lucky you could find them from mail order catalogues for a very steep price. We collected seed from friends who grew the plants or we ordered the seeds from British seed companies. As the years went by, we had such success with growing and selling plants such as Eccemocarpus Chilean Glory Vine, Solanum pyracanthum, Talinum Kingswood Gold, Linaria Flamenco, Mattholias bicornus, Reseda Mignonette, Cobaea scandens, Salvia patens, Petunia exerta, Salpiglossis, Rhodochiton, Mina lobata, and of course our many unusual varieties of Sweet Peas and tomatoes.
Edibles
We are continually amazed by the beauty of vegetables growing in the garden. Striped Italian Chioggia beets, the rainbow of colors that comprise the varieties of Swiss Chard, the deep sea-green blue of Italian Lacinato kale with their quilted crinkled leaves, chartreuse Australian Yellow lettuce, strawberry speckled green leaves of French heirloom lettuce Sanguine Ameliore, midnight purple Japanese eggplants, and of course the vast color range of heirloom and hybrid tomatoes—pale gold, deep yellow, orange, pink, red, purple, maroon, green striped, red striped and purple striped.
The Plants We Grow
Periodically Change
But These Are
Some of Our Favorites
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• Heirloom sweet peas—over 30 varieties
• Nicotiana—12 varities
• Linaria Flamenco—hot pink and gold
• Mirabilis Four O' Clocks—many colors
• Zalusianskya
• Mattholias bicornis -
• Phacelia
• Nemophila
• Gilia
• Limnanthes -
• Cupheas
• Eccremocarpus Chilean
• Glory vines
• Salvia, many varieties -
• Cobaea Cup and Saucer
• Grandpa Otts
• Heavenly Blue
• Mina Lobata Sunset Vine
• Scarlet Runner Bean, many varieties
• Rhodochiton Purple Bell Vine -
• Solanum pyrancanthum
• Talinum Kingswood Gold
• Kew Blue Salpiglossis -
• Jaune Flamme orange French heirloom tomato
• Yellow Perfection American heirloom tomato
• Juliet cherry Roma tomato
• Italian Lacinato Kale
• Calabrese heirloom broccoli
• Late Flat Dutch heirloom cabbage
• Mizuna mustard greens
• Tasty Jade Japanese hybrid cucumber
• Melrose Sweet Italian heirloom pepper
• Hot, orange Bulgarian Carrot Chile
• Pimiento Padrone spicy Spanish pepper
• Australian Yellow lettuce
• Merlot lettuce
• Lollo Rossa lettuce
• Speckled Amish lettuce
• Rouge d' Hiver lettuce
• Sugar Snap peas
• Chioggia beets
• Bright Lights Rainbow Swiss Chard
• Japanese Ichiban purple eggplant
Where to Find Us
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Seattle
• Sky Nursery
• Swanson’s -
Bainbridge
• Bainbridge Gardens Nursery
• Bay Hay
& Feed Nursery -
Tacoma
• Garden Sphere
• Portland Avenue Nursery -
Portland
• Garden Fever!
• Portland Nursery—
Stark Street
& Division Street
Locations -
Vashon
• Thriftway