Idaho Preferred's Essential Nursery, Greenhouse & Garden Center Guide
What’s grown in Idaho, thrives in Idaho!
For over twenty years, the Idaho Preferred logo has been a trusted symbol for consumers seeking high-quality, Idaho-grown and crafted agricultural products. When you see the Idaho Preferred logo on plants, trees, and shrubs from your local nursery or greenhouse, you can be confident they’re suited to thrive in Idaho’s diverse climates and soils. By choosing items with the Idaho Preferred logo, you’re not only supporting local growers, but you’re also ensuring the success of your own garden projects while boosting Idaho’s economy and community.
Idaho Preferred is proud to continue partnering with Idaho’s nurseries and greenhouse growers to highlight the importance of locally sourced lawn and garden products. Join us this April and May as we celebrate and explore Idaho’s local nurseries, greenhouses, and garden centers. Below is a list of Idaho Preferred members that offer retail purchases.
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REG 1: North Idaho/ Panhandle
Featured Idaho Preferred Members
REG 1: North Idaho/ Panhandle
REG 2: North Central Idaho/ Palouse
REG 3: Southwestern Idaho
Adams Gardens
Nampa
From Christmas trees to cactus, you can trust the experts at Adams Gardens, a locally owned, full-service Nursery and Garden Center in Nampa. Get tips on what and when to plant in your specific part of the Treasure Valley. As they say, “Some like it hot, some like it shady, some love a little of both.” And while the soil may be perfect for lilacs on one side of your home, the same plant may struggle on the other side. Leave it to the staff at Adams Gardens to guide you to a successful gardening experience. And check out their Spring vegetable planting guide for the Treasure Valley area!
CLOVERDALE NURSERY
Meridian
Cloverdale Nursery spans just over 19 acres in the heart of the Treasure Valley. The operation is an impressive site to behold from the drone photography shown here. After growing and selling turf in the Treasure Valley for over 50 years, Cloverdale Nursery is an expert on local soil conditions, offering experienced advice on the best tree and shrub options, and optimal site preparation for planting. They specialize in zone-hardy trees, shrubs and grasses, soil, sod, and bark. A quick visit to their expansive retail operation is sure to impress.
D & B SUPPLY
Throughout Idaho, Headquartered in caldwell
In 1959, when Idaho had half the number of people it has today, a couple of fellows named Dutch and Bud set up a farming wholesale store in the rural agricultural town of Caldwell. Even then, D&B was a one-stop shop where you could find everything you needed to keep your farm running. D&B expanded throughout the decades into a chain of stores in Idaho and Oregon and offers a wide selection of quality products including beautiful nursery and greenhouse plants that are acclimated to your specific climate in Idaho.
DU-RITE NURSERY
Meridian
If you’re thinking of planting a tree in the Treasure Valley, ask Du-Rite first. Tom Thibault started Du-Rite Nursery in SW Idaho’s Treasure Valley in 1971. Every morning Tom would rise, fire up the delivery truck, and move products so Treasure Valley people could enjoy crafting their own garden. Now, more than 50 years later, he’s created a family-owned and operated garden design center specializing in a broad selection of trees and shrubbery. Du-Rite Nursery serves both wholesale and retail customers. Tom’s sons, Tommy and Kevin, and daughter, Debbie, continue the legacy with grandsons Bailey and Tanner.
FRANZ WITTE
Nampa and McCall
Don’t knock that summer job! Franz Witte started this Boise landscaping company in 1971 as a summer job to build and install landscapes. That summer job grew into one of Idaho’s most successful landscape, maintenance, and garden center companies. 50 years later, in 2021, Franz Witte moved to its new location in Nampa, just in time for Mother’s Day weekend. The new garden center is a destination to experience – worth an afternoon to commune with nature and plants and feed your garden habit – and now open year-round!
JORDAN’S GARDEN CENTER
Boise
Jordan’s Garden Center is a local, family-run business that focuses on locally sourced products. They stock fresh produce daily sourced from local growers. With the addition of their garden center, they are happy to offer a great variety of locally grown trees and shrubs. They always support buying local Idaho plants and produce!
Melad Tree Farm
Nampa
Melad Tree Farm has been known throughout the Treasure Valley as the go-to for large specimen trees. They are recognized as a large specimen tree grower and transplanter in the Northwest with over 30 years in the business, of planting and transplanting trees for homeowners, landscapers, and commercial customers alike.
PURVIS ORCHARDS
Wilder
Purvis Orchards grafts, grows, and sells trees of hard-to-find fruit cultivars that will survive and ripen in USDA Zones 2-6, for growers in the northern tier states. Since 1985, Purvis has taught grafting and pruning classes for the general public and also offers consulting for homeowners. Now that the orchard is in its 13th season and coming into full production, Purvis also sells his fruit to the general public.
REG 4: Central Idaho
Alpha Nursery & Garden Center
Cascade
Located at 5,000 feet elevation, about 20 minutes south of McCall, ID in hardy Zone 4, Alpha Garden Center serves Valley County residents. Trust the Alpha Garden Center experts to select plants and trees that perform best given the area’s shorter growing season. You’ll find a lush variety of locally grown perennials and annuals that perform best despite late spring and early fall frosts. Look for Alpha Garden Center at the corner of Alpha Lane and State Highway 55 in Cascade, ID.
EDWARDS GREENHOUSE
Boise
Nestled in a little gully along the foothills of Boise’s North End neighborhood is the iconic Edwards Greenhouse, an independent family-owned gardening sanctuary for over 60 years.
North End Organic Nursery
Garden City
The North End Organic Nursery is a locally owned, sustainable, full-service, and 100% organic garden center, with an onsite plant nursery specializing in edible, native, and water-conserving plants.
OLD VALLEY FARM & NURSERY
Eagle
Old Valley Farm produces high-quality plants at a fair price. Plants are grown in the Treasure Valley and thrive in the Inter-Mountain West climate. Old Valley Farm cultivates an infectious passion for horticulture as they exchange firsthand knowledge and stories of gardening experiences with customers.
Olson’s Greenhouse Gardens
Boise
Olson’s Greenhouse is a wholesale grower and distributor of plants throughout the Intermountain West, with growing locations in Utah, Idaho, and Colorado. With five growing locations and over a million square feet of environmentally-controlled greenhouse space, Olson’s Greenhouse supplies more than 400 retail locations throughout the Intermountain West, from Texas to Montana and Nevada to Iowa. Boise, Idaho is a location of one of their growing locations with distribution into Wal-Marts, Home Depot, and more.
WARM SPRINGS GREENHOUSE
Garden Valley
Idaho is known for its vast geothermal resources, tapped for hundreds of years as an environmentally friendly energy source. Warm Springs Greenhouse & Nursery uses their hot springs to efficiently grow their gorgeous flowers for local Idaho retailers who serve consumers. You won’t find this stunning array of bursting color and floral variety at big box stores. Another great reason to patronize Idaho home and garden retailers. Enjoy their beautifully crafted floral potted plants, premium spring baskets and pots, and annuals grown with love and years of experience by this multi-generational family business.
Willow Creek Container Nursery
Middleton
Willow Creek Container Nursery is a family-owned wholesale grower specializing in landscape plants including trees, ornamental grasses, shrubs, and perennials. They serve commercial clients, landscapers, designers, contractors, retail + wholesale nurseries, and garden centers. Their products are locally acclimated, hearty, and vernalized to thrive at any site.
REG 5: Southern Idaho
MOSS GREENHOUSES
Jerome
What started as a hobby in 1952 quickly became a family-owned and operated business now going on four generations. Moss Greenhouses grows nursery plants in over 300,000 sf of covered greenhouses and 3 acres of outside growing areas. The onsite retail store, open March through August, serves their loyal walk-in customers.
REG 6: Southeastern Idaho
Brady’s Plant Ranch
Downey
Regional retail garden center located in the heart of Marsh Valley, ID featuring plants that thrive in Eastern Idaho soils including ornamental plants, trees, shrubs, and vegetable starts. Great gardening classes, too!
Collings Family Farm
Downey
Collings Family Farm is a small farm including a goat dairy that produces raw milk products, including milk and cheese sold to the public from our home and at farmers markets. They also grow greenhouses full of vegetables that they sell at a little self-serve farm stand on the highway by their home and at farmers’ markets.
REG 7: Eastern Idaho
SUNNYSIDE GARDENS
Ammon
Turn that brown thumb green! Located in E. Idaho (Ammon) since 1987, this family-owned garden center is here to help. Whether you’re a beginning or experienced gardener, Sunnyside Gardens is a premier resource for “how to” tips to help you grow a healthy and rewarding garden. Certified Nursery Professionals are on staff to help you choose the right plants, flowers, shrubs, and trees for your location and soil. Follow their advice and turn that brown thumb green!
TOWN & COUNTRY GARDENS
Idaho FAlls
What began as a small operation selling bedding plants, now offers Eastern Idaho’s largest selection of trees, shrubs, mulch, gardening tools, plant pest solutions, Christmas trees, and poinsettias. John Crooks enrolled in the horticulture program at Rick’s College (now BYU-Idaho) in 1976. Two years later he began managing his father’s nursery. In 1983, he bought the company and expanded the business by building 20,000 sf of greenhouse and an additional 20,000 sf of shade houses.
