Climate adapted plants for gardeners in the Pacific Northwest

11.3.23

Xera Plants Shop is now closed for winter:

We are still accepting orders via email and we can make pick up times available during our closed period.

Also: you can reach us on the contact page to purchase gift certificates as well as Xera merchandise.

We are not closing permanently, Contained Exuberance the pottery shop next door has decided to close permanently. No affect on Xera Plants. We’ll be back open in February with winter hours. Stay tuned for the exact date.

We have a large stock of plants but not all in the catalog are ready at the same time. Please see the availability list on the blue bar at the top of the page.

HAPPY Winter and Holidays!

We have gift certificates in stock for your gardening compatriots and there are three different styles. Please specify if you’d like seasonal gift certificates. We have both holiday and non holiday forms.

We also carry :

Xera ball caps, re-useable shopping bags as well as Xera coffee cups. See availability above.

We will have plants through our closed period.

Orders may be emailed at any time to xeraplants@gmail.com and our website availability list (above) will be updated each week.

See the contact page for directions.

Have a great winter:

xo Xera Team

Welcome!

Xera Plants is a retail plant nursery and grower based in Portland, Oregon. Our goal is to inspire gardeners to create diverse, ecologically sound landscapes suited to our climate.

We emphasize the use of low water plants, west coast native plants and plants native to a similar winter wet/summer dry climate as our own.  Our staff of horticultural experts is committed to providing friendly, detailed, solution-based customer service.  If you have a question we have the answer. After all, we grow every one of our plants and know each one intimately.

Ceanothus x ‘Xera Azul’- Xera Plants Introduction
We love native hardy annuals. Gilia capitata, and Collomia grandiflora pictured.

We grow ALL of our plants

All of our plants are grown by us at our facility near Sherwood, OR using sustainable growing practices. We do not use neonicotinoid pesticides. We firmly believe in the health and well being of not only our pollinators but gardeners and gardens as well. We are stewards of the environment and we take that very seriously.

We strive to maintain a large and diverse supply of plants and we emphasize those that are adapted to certain biomes. That means we search for and grow plants for such difficult situations as dry shade, blasting hellstrips and many other categories. Remember that not all of our plants are available at the same time. Crops have their own timelines and we do our best to finish them in an efficient and timely manner. A large amount of new plants arrives at the shop each week. Feel free to give us a call and to inquire about any plant that we grow or even plants that you think we should grow.  At our shop you will find the best quality, fresh nursery stock that is immediately ready for installation.

We do NOT do mail order. We are just not set up for that kind of business. We may be able to source our plants at other nurseries who do.

We hope you have a wonderful garden season and we cannot wait to see you at the shop!

Paul Bonine ( Xera co-owner) and Amy Campion have teamed up to write a comprehensive garden book. ‘Gardening in the Pacific Northwest A complete Homeowners Guide’ Timber Press 2017.

Its a book for all levels of gardening and it is specifically geared towards the Pacific Northwest climate- on both sides of the Cascades. It can be purchased or accessed through the book cover which appears in our footer at the bottom of the page.


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