Xera Plants Shop

Excellent plant center with a very good diversity of hard to find plants. They were extremely helpful (I was shopping with a toddler), and their yearly sale made the plants even more reasonable. A year in, almost all the plants have grown in well, particularly those grasses for Wet shady areas which were hard to find elsewhere. I would highly recommend this gem of a nursery.

LOVE THIS NURSERY. I found a plant, Hebe ‘Pink Elephant,’ that I had been looking for for years! Well worth taking the trip. They also have a variety of plants that you won’t find at your local favorite nursery (don’t even bother looking at big box garden centers). Great place for those who like the rare and unusual — their prices are similar to any nursery. For it’s small size, they have an amazing selection. Parking can be a challenge, but don’t give up!

This shop offers a beautiful array of native plants. It’s just the right size with a lot of selection, but not too overwhelmingly large.
While not super large, the selection provides everything one needs to create a beautiful, environmentally-​conscious garden.
The owner was incredibly helpful and knowledgeable each visit. This hot, dry spring/​early summer was particularly hard for establishing new plants. When I went back to ask for suggestions for a few of my plants that weren’t doing so well due to the heat, the owner not only gave me great, simple suggestions, but offered me replacement plants free of charge! He said he empathized with how hard it was to be patient as a new garden establishes itself and knowing I was a renter on a tight budget, even threw in a few replacements free of charge.
Great customer service, selection and environmentally friendly.

Absolutely a must for any gardner interested in quality, unusual, and interesting plants. Like another reviewer, I was always buying their plants at other nurseries and then found out a year ago or so that they opened a small retail nursery in SE Portland. They’ve taken my plant wish list several times, always call me when things come in, have super knowledgable and friendly staff and I recommend their nursery to everyone who asks about my garden. A wonderful resource to have so close by.

Drove 45 miles to discover they’re closed for the winter. No notice on their website, just a sign in the door.
Lame

I like how simple this place was.
Plant purchasing can sometimes be overwhelming when you have to walk through a jungle, but Xera Plants arranged their plants simple enough for customers to be able to look through things.

Great store. Nice staff. Live that their plants are designed for the pdx weather.

I heard about Xera because their nursery stock was always showing up at the garden shops I would visit. They were always the most interesting, uncommon, striking specimens in the whole place. I avoided buying them, sure they were too exotic for me to be successful with.
However, I was lucky enough to stumble onto their website just in time for their end-​of-​summer sale. I visited the shop and left with about $ 100 worth of plants. Worth every damn penny.
They specialize in plants that do well in our region, especially ones with low water needs. They depart somewhat from the «native only» party line, which frankly, I love. They’ve found plants, often rare, from all over the world, and made them available to the likes of –me-​. It’s amazing. But yes, they also have natives. I got a gorgeous manzanita and want to get a madrone this spring.
The woman who helped me that day listened to my vision (I showed up without a plan, photographs, being able to remember the names of the plans I already had, or, apparently, a clue) and pulled a few options for me. She was completely unfazed by my declining her original color choices, and threw a half-​dozen new ideas at me. She answered ALL of my questions, showed me how the plans would look when they were grown in and flowering, and spent so much time helping me that I started to feel self-​conscious about using her landscaping expertise.
Xera is not huge, but the selection makes up for it. And the friendliness and knowledge of the people there make me want to go back all the damn time.