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Native seeds and blends

Our seeds are all indigenous species of Southern Vancouver Island, from our field-grown plants (not wild collected). They are grown without herbicides, pesticides (including neonicotinoids), and chemical fertilizers.

Many of our species are available as pre-packaged seed packs ($6+tax). Bulk quantities are also available. Please see the species list below and send an e-mail to info@saanichnativeplants.com with your requests. Please note: Not all seed packets are available at our nursery location and should be ordered for pick-up.

Click here for beautiful ready-made seed blends.

Let us help you develop a specialized and custom blend to fit specifically with your project or site. See below for more info.

Ordering, pick-up, and payment
To order seeds, contact us at info@saanichnativeplants.ca. Seed orders can be picked up from the nursery or mailed to your business or home.

Consult our new Sowing Your Seed Instructions handout for more information

Custom Seed Blends

We specialize in custom seed mixes to suite your specific project needs. We develop mixes for everything from a few square metres to acreages. We ask that you provide enough information about your project that we can develop an appropriate seed blend for you.

Please send an e-mail with your details and as much of the following as you can when ordering custom seed blends:
- A photo of the site
- A brief verbal description of the site (e.g. moisture, light, soils)
- Size of area (sq m or sq ft)
- A brief description of your goals (e.g. slope stabilization, pollinator-friendly, deer-resistant)
-If you know some of the species you want in the mix please let us know. Otherwise, we can choose appropriate species for you.

We will respond quickly by e-mail with an estimate for a seed blend. Once you have confirmed your order we will mix your blend for you. For larger orders a deposit may be required as blends can not be unmixed once they are created.

Producing native seeds requires planting of single-species beds so that the seed can be harvested efficiently. In addition to producing seeds, these beds contribute to soil development, pollinator enhancement, and wildlife habitat.

Seed Selection

*Please note in the table below the cost column is $/gram, not $/packet* We have a minimum of $6/package (standard packet), or seeds can be ordered in bulk amounts ($/gram below)

To place seed orders please e-mail us at info@saanichnativeplants.com

SOLD OUT? We produce all of our seeds in house and do not purchase seeds for re-sale. We have our busiest seed season in early fall (September/October). As species become unavailable, we mark them as sold out, but please remember they become available the next season when we're collecting from our seed rows again. If you see a species you're interested in please feel free to write to info@saanichnativeplants.com to place an order of either an individual seed packet ($6/packet for all species) or to order a bulk amount (cost/gram varies for each species and the cost is listed in the table below). Orders are filled on a first-come first-serve basis and we take orders year-round. We recommend ordering your seed packets, bulk seed, and seed blends as soon as possible for our 2021 collection season.

Species		$/gram	Seeds/Gram
Yarrow SOLD OUT	Achillea millefolium	$3.00	3125
Lemmon’s Needlegrass	Achnatherum lemmonii	$2.00	209
Large-flowered Agoseris	Agoseris grandiflora	$8.00	604
Slimleaf Onion	Allium amplectens	$8.00	774
Nodding Onion SOLD OUT	Allium cernuum	$4.00	236
Pearly Everlasting SOLD OUT	Anaphalis margaritacea	$12.00	24254
Red Columbine SOLD OUT	Aquilegia formosa	$5.00	694
Coastal Mugwort	Artemisia suksdorfii	$3.00	5066
Nodding Beggarticks	Bidens cernua	$5.00	286
Harvest Brodiaea SOLD OUT	Brodiaea coronaria	$9.00
California Brome SOLD OUT	Bromus carinatus	$0.35	180
Columbia Brome	Bromus vulgaris	$0.50	269
Great Camas SOLD OUT	Camassia leichtlinii	$1.15	139
Common Camas SOLD OUT	Camassia quamash	$2.50	258
Dewey's Sedge SOLD OUT	Carex deweyana	$4.75	1674
Inflated Sedge	Carex exsicatta	$5.00	357
Green-sheathed Sedge	Carex feta	$5.00	1585
Kellogg's Sedge	Carex lenticularis var. lipocarpa	$4.50	2307
Lyngbye’s Sedge	Carex lyngbyei	$3.00
Slough Sedge	Carex obnupta	$3.00	1249
Hare Sedge	Carex ovalis	$3.50	1321
Thick-headed Sedge	Carex pachystachya	$3.50	1707
Awl-fruited Sedge	Carex stipata	$3.50	2538
One-sided Sedge	Carex unilateralis	$4.00	2178
Green Sedge	Carex viridula	$5.00
Field Chickweed	Cerastium arvense	$12.00	7500
Farewell-to-spring	Clarkia amoena	$6.00	5000
Miner's Lettuce SOLD OUT	Claytonia perfoliata	$5.25	1667
Siberian Miner's-lettuce SOLD OUT	Claytonia sibirica	$6.25
Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary SOLD OUT	Collinsia parviflora	$6.00	1175
Vari-leaved Collomia	Collomia heterophylla	$6.00	800
California Oatgrass	Danthonia californica	$1.00	308
Menzies' Larkspur SOLD OUT	Delphinium menziesii	$18.50	835
Tufted Hairgrass	Deschampsia cespitosa	$0.55	3655
Sticky Cinquefoil	Drymocallis glandulosa	$7.00	2500
Blue Wildrye SOLD OUT	Elymus glaucus	$0.50	264
Fireweed SOLD OUT	Epilobium angustifolium	$12.00	20000
Woolly Sunflower	Eriophyllum lanatum	$5.00	2575
White Fawn Lily SOLD OUT	Erythronium oregonum	$5.00	133
Roemer's Fescue	Festuca roemeri	$2.00	1101
Chocolate Lily SOLD OUT	Fritillaria affinis	$10.00	330
Large-leaved Avens	Geum macrophyllum	$3.00	1674
Hairy Gumweed SOLD OUT	Grindelia hirsutula	$2.00	435
Entire-leaved Gumweed	Grindelia stricta	$2.00	280
Mountain Sneezeweed	Helenium autumnale var. grandiflorum	$2.00	5000
Cow Parsnip	Heracleum maximum	$2.00	110
Small-flowered Alumroot	Heuchera micrantha	$8.00
Meadow Barley SOLD OUT	Hordeum brachyantherum	$0.50	148
Jointed Rush	Juncus articulatus	$5.00	57419
Dagger-leaf Rush	Juncus ensifolius	$5.00	57419
Western Rush	Juncus occidentalis	$5.00	57419
Junegrass	Koeleria macrantha	$3.00	5066
Barestem Desert-parsley	Lomatium nudicaule	$3.00	122
Spring Gold	Lomatium utriculatum	$4.00	610
Bicoloured Lupine SOLD OUT	Lupinus bicolor	$8.00	168
Large-leaved Lupine	Lupinus polyphyllus	$1.00	48
Pacific Woodrush	Luzula comosa var. comosa	$6.00	1389
Prairie Woodrush SOLD OUT	Luzula subsessilis	$7.00	1389
Clustered Tarweed SOLD OUT	Madia glomerata	$3.00	311
Slender Tarweed SOLD OUT	Madia gracilis	$3.00
Alaska Oniongrass SOLD OUT	Melica subulata	$2.00	400
Yellow Monkey-flower	Mimulus guttatus	$8.00	20000
Common forget-me-not	Myosotis laxa	$5.00	2959
Skunkweed	Navarretia squarrosa	$5.00	10000
Small-flowered Nemophila SOLD OUT	Nemophila parvifolia	$6.00	242
Sea Blush SOLD OUT	Plectritis congesta	$6.00	1012
Sandberg’s Bluegrass	Poa secunda	$2.00	2643
Graceful Cinquefoil	Potentilla gracilis var. gracilis	$5.00	3333
Broad-leaved Shootingstar SOLD OUT	Primula hendersonii	$10.00	391
Few-flowered Shootingstar	Primula pauciflora var. pauciflora	$8.00	4167
Self-heal SOLD OUT	Prunella vulgaris ssp. lanceolata	$5.00	900
Western Buttercup SOLD OUT	Ranunculus occidentalis	$5.00	305
Straight-beaked Buttercup	Ranunculus orthorhynchus	$4.00	312
Western Yellow Cress	Rorripa curvisiliqua	$10.00	35000
Pacific Sanicle SOLD OUT	Sanicula crassicaulis	$3.00	152
Soft-stemmed Bulrush	Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani	$4.00	882
Small-flowered Bulrush	Scirpus microcarpus	$5.00	8333
Henderson’s Checkermallow	Sidalcea hendersonii	$4.00	236
Blue-eyed Grass	Sisyrinchium idahoense	$7.00	714
Canada Goldenrod	Solidago lepida	$6.00	10141
Douglas' Aster. Taxonomy under review. Currently not for sale.	Symphyotrichum subspicatum	$4.00	3964
Fringecup	Tellima grandiflora	$4.00	16650
Foamflower SOLD OUT	Tiarella trifoliata	$12.00	2910
Fool’s Onion SOLD OUT	Triteleia hyacinthina	$6.00	581
Stinging Nettle SOLD OUT	Urtica dioica	$7.00	5000
Purslane Speedwell	Veronica peregrina	$10.00	26200
Early Blue Violet SOLD OUT	Viola adunca	$10.00	659

List updated January 2021