Paradise Gardens Rare Plant Nursery
Specializing in fragrant & lesser known ornamental, edible & useful plants for northern gardens
Why choose us?
Paradise Gardens Rare Plant Nursery is a small nursery & farm in north Idaho specializing in fragrant and lesser known ornamental, edible & useful plants for northern climates, plus herbal necessities using herbs and flowers from our gardens, woods and fields.
For 2020 there will be roses, iris, fragrant herbs plus other plants by whim, plus jellies, sachets & other farm products.
The nursery isn't open to the public, but during the growing season I'll have plants at the Bonners Ferry farmer's market.
Judith M.
proprietor
I grew up gardening with my parents and grandparents; my first word was 'Flower'. Scented flowers & foliage, night-blooming plants, antique roses, herbs from around the world..all fascinate me. Plus, of course, anything blue.
Over the years I've explored dye plants, alpines, unusual scents (pine scented roses, rose scented grass, iris with violet scented roots), and fragrant, colorful plants for shade, to name a very few.
As the climate gets warmer and odder, the plants we have success with are changing too, adding challenges I'd never have dreamed of 60 years ago.
For many years this was a paper catalog arm of a busy farmer's market outlet, but age has shifted things to spring offerings at market and a few online, around my now main business of soapmaking.
But as everyone who has lain in the warm spring grass to smell violets or swooned looking at delphiniums will know, old gardeners never really stop gardening :)
