Welcome!
Hello friends,
We welcome this new year with excitement, ready to refresh our souls and replenish the earth
through gardening! We look forward to the feeling of community and the presence of beauty in our environment. Let’s make the world a more peaceful place as we garden together!
The Dreaney family
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At Bremerton City Nursery we have a Garden Rewards Club for our friends who want to be informed of new plants, products, educational classes, fun workshops and upcoming events. Members earn a dollar percentage of regularly priced plant purchases and receive weekly email updates. Stop by the nursery to sign up and start your gardening adventure with us!
We really like Oakleaf Hydrangeas. They have epic fall color and peeling stems give them interest long after the flowers have faded. We just got our hands on these two varieties and we wanted to share a bit about them.
Gatsby Glow Ball® is BRAND NEW for 2026. It came out of Dr. Tom Ranney’s plant breeding program at NC State, where years of selection and evaluation went into creating a more compact, dense Oakleaf Hydrangea. It stays small and rounded, reaching only about 3–4 feet. It's got white flowers that age to lime green and burgundy-red fall foliage. CUTE!
Gatsby Pink® was discovered at Powell Gardens in Missouri by horticulturist Alan Branhagen. He noticed that the huge white flowers turn a rich pink as they age.
We've got a handful of these Gatsby girls available. Click here to reserve yours: store.bremertoncitynursery.com/products/search?keyword=gatsby
Note that trademarks are never things. In this case GATSBY GLOW BALL and GATSBY PINK are marketing terms used to sell whatever the involved cultivars are. These cultivar names being the names of the plant varieties. Unlike the trademarks. This is why when a body uses a plant patent number to search for patented plant descriptions online the USPTO pages on them that come up are titled with the cultivar names. Because only these cultivar names are the names of the patented inventions. And not any associated trademarks. More is here: "Tony Avent, a well‑known plantsman and owner of Plant Delights Nursery, has written extensively about the misuse of trademarks in horticulture. His article “Name That Plant – The Misuse of Trademarks in Horticulture” outlines how nurseries frequently blur the line between cultivar names and trademarks, causing widespread confusion in plant identification and marketing. plantdelights.com"
Calluna vulgaris aka Scotch Heather is not native to the Pacific Northwest. It comes from the rainy landscapes of Europe where it grows across open moors with rocky, acidic soils.
Sound familiar? They feel right at home in the PNW and they’re fantastic tucked into rock gardens, along paths or massed together for a big sweep of color.
Shop our collection here: store.bremertoncitynursery.com/products/search?keyword=heather
UPDATE! RESTOCK COMING NEXT WEEK, CALL THE NURSERY TO PUT YOUR NAME ON THE WAIT LIST 360-373-8765!
This little fig tree is kind of a botanical accident. Or, as Bob Ross would say, a happy accident.
This is Fignomenal® Fig, and the story behind it is pretty great.
Plant breeder Lloyd Traven of Peace Tree Farm was growing ‘Chicago Hardy’ figs when he noticed something very different on one plant: a single branch that was unusually short and absolutely loaded with fruit.
He initially thought it might be a witches’ broom (a strange abnormal growth that can occur on plants). Instead, it turned out to be something much more interesting.
What he discovered was a truly dwarf fig tree that can stay around 2–3 feet tall and wide, yet produces an impressive amount of fruit. In trials, one plant had more than 100 figs by July!
Fignomenal is actually a sport (a naturally occurring mutation) of ‘Chicago Hardy.’ It's self-fertile, so you only need one plant, and its medium-sized figs have deep brown skin and sweet, pink-red flesh.
So now you can have fresh figs without a giant tree taking over your yard.
Thanks, Lloyd. We love a happy accident.
Reserve one here: store.bremertoncitynursery.com/products/fig-fignomenal-2-gal
Are you likely to get more?
Does it need to be brought inside for winter?
That is so cool. I had no idea when I planted my start from the Evergreen Garden Club sale a few years ago, that it would be a monstrous size tree!! 🌿💚
Keith Kurko
Cool!
Sold out! 🙁
bummer - says sold out. 😭😭😭
UPDATE: SOLD OUT!
Wow! What a terrific response. Thank you to everyone that purchased a Fignomenal® Fig.
Be careful where you plant this!
Oh no!! I was gonna come pick one up today!
Awesome!!😎
This is a really cool shrub!
It wasn't bred in a lab. It was discovered by a Dutch grower in 2015 as a naturally occurring mutation on a Tatarian Dogwood. That branch turned out to have something special: foliage that emerges green, cream and pink, then develops even more color as the seasons change.
PLUS, check out those colorful stems. SWOON!
The only mystery we're still trying to solve: Why is it named ‘Sgt. Pepper’? 🤔
We haven't found the official story behind the name yet, but whatever the reason, we're pretty sure they nailed it with this plant.
Any theories on why it's called ‘Sgt. Pepper’? Drop them below! 👇
Want to reserve one for yourself? Click here: store.bremertoncitynursery.com/products/cornus-alba-sgt-pepper-2-gal
The person who named it was a Beatles fan?
I wonder if the vines stay red!?
If someone is allergic to dogwood pollen, would this plant be a problem?