WELCOME TO ART'S NURSERY

Art's Nursery is one of Metro Vancouver's largest retail and wholesale nurseries and garden centres.
Our incredible selection of over 10 acres of plants, shrubs, trees, pottery, garden accents,
bulk materials and much more is second to none. It would be fair to say that plants are our passion!

While others are trying hard to become the biggest, we're working hard everyday to try and be the best.
We're firmly focused on you and your gardening and landscaping needs.

Art's Nursery has been in business since 1973 and we pride ourselves in offering more service, more selection and more fun!

Call, browse our website or visit us in person - we look forward to serving you!

SUMMER HOURS

Open 7 Days A Week

9:00am to 6:00pm | Everyday
9:00am to 5:00pm | Holidays

OUR POLLINATOR GARDEN

This year we decided to start our very own Pollinator Garden at the nursery to help teach our customers more about pollinators and all the positive things they do for us. Our goal is to show how easy it is, and that even planting a few things in your garden can go a long way in attracting more bees, hummingbirds & butterflies.

Featured Blog Articles

20 New Fall Planting Bulbs for 2019

With the final days of summer slowly approaching it’s only natural for us gardeners to start planning for next year. The first thing to spring to mind (no pun intended) is fall planting bulbs: Crocus, Tulips, Hyacinth and many more. Often the first sign of colour we are rewarded with in the garden during early spring, planting bulbs in the fall is easy, affordable, and something you must try - if you havent already!

Early Fall (September) is when these flowering beauties start to arrive at the nursery, but we encourage you to Pre-Order early, so you don’t miss out on the 20 stunning new varieties we are recieving this year.

Early Spring Flowering Bulbs

If you want to feel the warm glow of sunshine in early spring, try new varieties Crocus ‘Early Gold’ or Iris ‘Katherine’s Gold’. These yellow cuties are very petite in nature, only growing 4-6 inches tall! This small size makes them perfect for containers or small gardens.

Desire something with a bit more colour and size? Try out Narssisus Colourful Companions 'Dancin' in the Sun' combo. An early spring charmer growing to a height of 16 inches and featuring 2 different varieties of white, gold and yellow daffodils.

Mid Spring Flowering Bulbs

For some interest in the garden during mid spring, you can’t go wrong with either Daffodil 'Acropolis' or 'Falmouth Bay'. An elegant almost pure white colour and nice height of 16-20 inches makes this pair stand out among fellow plants gracing the period between spring and summer.

The perfect Daffodil (Narcissus) for a patio or smaller garden has to be Narcissus ‘White Petticoat’. Growing to a dimure height of 4 inches, this adorable white daffodil has deep green stems making the crisp white of the blooms even more notable.

A featured bulb this year, Tulipa ‘Canadian Liberator’ was released to honour and celebrate 75 years of European Liberation! Canadian Liberator stands tall at 22 inches high and is a strong, bright red, featuring nearly perfect shaped flowers.

If you love pink and are looking for some mid spring color we suggest Tulipa ‘Foxtrot’ or Colourful Companions ‘Rasberry Meringue’. Foxtrot is a fragrant, double tulip in a glorious bubblegum pink and Rasberry Meringue combines a creamy white, double daffodil with a matching creamy tulip with raspberry pink accents.

Late Spring

To bring a few splashes of pink to your late spring garden as well, or if enjoy foraging in the garden for cut flower arrangements then you must choose Double Tulip ‘Dazzling Sensation’ or ‘Crispion Sweet’. Crispion Sweet has full, solid pink flowers with fringed petals, while Dazzling Sensation’s blooms are packed with smoother petals with white feathering at the outer petal edges.

Two later Spring flowers that will become a focal point in the garden, and that pollinators can’t miss are Allium ‘Rosy Dream’ and Colourful Companions ‘Hot Shots’. Rosy Dream will grow to 18 inches and feature lovely, globe-like purple blooms, and Hot Shots combines two vivid red tulip varieties that stand at a grand 24 inches tall.

Summer

To get the most out of planting bulbs in the fall you can extend your flowering season into summer by choosing plants such as the Camas or Foxtail Lily. Foxtail Lilies (Eremurus) are extrodinarily tall, perennials that have massive flower spikes. For pink flowers try Eremurus ‘Shelford Pink' or ‘Robustus’ and for orange blooms ‘Cleopatra’. Camassia leichtini ‘Alba’ is an equally tall plant, bearing flower spikes matching the Foxtail Lilies grandeur but in a pale white shade with larger individual flowers upon the spike.

Garlic

If flowers aren’t your thing, or your just enjoy growing your own veggies we suggest planting garlic this fall. Planting garlic is easy, all you have to do is separate each garlic bulb carefully into individual cloves. Plant your cloves in a rich soil by pushing each clove 1-2 inches into the soil with the flat side down and pointed-tip upwards towards the surface of the soil. Your harvest will be ready anytime from Spring through Summer. You will know when the leaves have become mostly yellow, i.e. more yellow on the leaf than there is green. Chesnok, Yugoslavian and Mixed Gourmet varieties are new this year!

Pre-Order

Any of the bulbs featured in this article. Simply click on the bulb mentioned in the article and it will take you to our pre-order page!

Pre-Orders end September 1, 2019 when bulbs start to arrive. For availability after September 1 call in store (604) 882 1201.

Recent Blog Posts

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Introduction to Hydrangeas

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New Arrivals:

Art's Nursery brings in an absolutely massive selection of plants and gardening products throughout the year. Some of our most recent arrivals or additions to our catalog include:

Orange Sceptre Butterfly Bush

Buddleia 'Orange Sceptre'
1G POT
$16.98

Dafeng Giant Single Late Tulip Bulbs

Tulipa 'Dafeng' Bulbs
6 Bulbs PKG
$7.99

Hot Shots Tulip Bulbs

Colourful Companions Tulipa 'Hot Shots' Bulbs
16 Bulbs PKG
$9.99

White Petticoat Mini Daffodil Bulbs

Narcissus 'White Petticoat' Bulbs
5 Bulbs PKG
$4.99

Duke Lab

Campania - Duke
PRD
$789.98

Phantom Hydrangea

Hydrangea paniculata 'Phantom'
15G POT
$89.98

Little Miss Figgy Dwarf Fig

Ficus carica 'Little Miss Figgy'
2G POT
$39.98

Victoria Evergreen Magnolia

Magnolia grandiflora 'Victoria'
5G POT
$120.00

Please note. Our plant library should be considered as a reference guide - not a real time inventory. Not all items are in-stock all the time. If in doubt, please call 604.882.1201 to confirm

More Recent Arrivals

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Art's Nursery offers numerous seminars and workshops throughout the year. The next scheduled one is:

Scarecrow Festival 2019

Saturday, September 21, 2019 - 10:00am

Art's Nursery's Annual Scarecrow Festival is a fun, family friendly event in support of 3 local charities and groups – O.W.L. (Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society), Inclusion Langley Society, and The Versatile Society of Entertainers.

The event kicks off with a full day festival on Saturday, September 21st, 2019 from 10am to 4pm and includes a:

• DIY Build-a-Crow station*
• Live Music
• Scarecrow Scavenger Hunt
• Crafts & Activities
• Speakers & Demos
• Hayrides
& More!

A special thanks to over 50 local companies for sponsoring the creative & crazy scarecrows displayed throughout the nursery for you to find! Does your business want to sponsor a scarecrow this year?
CLICK HERE to find out how you can be involved!

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OUR POLLINATOR GARDEN