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A wise person once said, “Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.”
At Swanson’s Nursery, you’ll find all the seeds you need to grow an exceptional flower or vegetable garden. We carry seeds from Territorial Seed Company, Renee’s Garden Seed, Seeds of Change, and Burpee Seeds.

These companies provide the highest quality of seed with varieties perfect for home gardeners. You’ll find great flavor, easy culture and exceptional garden performance with each packet. Swanson’s carries no GMO (genetically modified) seed in an effort to promote healthy, natural gardens.

• Territorial Seed Company is local to the pacific northwest, based out of Cottage Grove, OR. Their .25 Spring/Fall catalogs are filled with invaluable growing information, plant descriptions and tips of how to sow, grow and harvest as well as insects to look out for.

• Renee’s Garden is perfect for gardeners who like to try multiple varieties of vegetables or flowers from just one packet of seeds, like California Spicy Greens, tasty Beet Trio and an Asian or Italian Eggplant Trio. Great selection of unusual annual vines too! Renee Shepard is an avid chef and gardener and has perfected many recipes for home grown produce in her collection of cook books.

• Seeds of Change are all certified organic, with lots of rare and heirloom varieties. Based out of Gila, New Mexico, Seeds of Changes’ mission is to preserve biodiversity and promote sustainable agriculture through researching, cultivating and producing over 600 varieties of seed. Another plus is that each seed packet is re-sealable.

• Burpee seeds have the longest history of any of these companies, starting back in 1876 by plant pioneer W. Atlee Burpee. It was this man who brought the first hybridized seed to market; Burpee essentially created seeds that had the best characteristics for growers: better tasting, disease resistance, and fruit production. The same perfect stringless green beans that your grandparents grew are as tried and true now as they were then.

If you are new to growing plants from seed in Seattle, consider picking up a copy of The Maritime Northwest Garden Guide by local garden guru Carl Elliott, now in its third edition. It features month-by-month planting calendar for year round gardening.

Additionally, in an effort to be good community stewards, Swanson’s Nursery donates any end-of-season unsold seed to various non-profits around the Puget Sound area. In past years, hundreds of packets of seeds have been donated to the King County P-Patch program, Seattle Tilth, Lettuce Link (who grow produce for the homeless), and the Seattle Arboretum Foundation.