Where can I find a nursery specializing in hardy exotics within an hour's drive of Seattle? Where's the best place for antique French grilles and gates? When are the display gardens at world-famous Heronswood Nursery open to the public? Is there an organization that can give me cultural information about Aroids? Which Pacific Northwest nurseries and seed sources offer international mail order?

Over the last 10 years The Northwest Gardeners' Resource Directory has become the region's most comprehensive, most respected and best-selling guide to all things horticultural in the Pacific Northwest. The Eighth edition of this encyclopedic book offers 352 pages of this kind of information and more. The new edition features more than 300 nurseries in Oregon and Washington—from the smallest mail order specialists to the mammoth garden centers—specifically and enthusiastically described and critiqued in over 80 pages of text. There are over 1000 website and email addresses—the most comprehensive collection of any region ever assembled. Considered by many to be "The Bible" of Northwest horticulture, the book represents more than a dozen years of tireless research into the most special and very finest that the Northwest has to offer.

The Seattle Times had an advance peek at the new edition and here's respected gardening columnist Val Easton's reaction:

"If you are only going to buy one book save your money for a few more weeks when Stephanie Feeney will publish the 8th and latest edition of The Northwest Gardeners' Resource Directory (Cedarcroft Press, April, 1999). How do gardeners in other parts of the country survive without such a stunningly thorough guidebook to all things horticultural? ... Internet coverage is expanded this year, with hundreds of new web and email listings plus dozens of new nurseries and garden shops. Feeney gives us a painstakingly researched roadmap to Northwest horticulture, in 352 pages, for $19.95."

And the post-publication reviews have continued Ms. Easton's praise:

The Bellingham Herald: "This is the gardening book to invest in this year and one that will be hard to put down once it is opened."

Here's what the gardening press has had to say about our previous editions:

Sunset Magazine: "... an indispensable reference"

Fine Gardening: "... (a) model of what a regional guide should be."

HortIdeas: "Stephanie Feeney has really outdone herself on... her guide to everything [and we mean everything] horticultural in the Pacific Northwest..."

The Avant Gardener: "... an invaluable compendium of sources, sites, shows and just about everything else useful to gardeners living in, visiting, or ordering plants from the Pacific Northwest."

The American Cottage Gardener: "This book goes from strength to strength; each edition is better."

The Hobby Greenhouse Association News: "This has to be the ultimate resource for northwest gardeners."

Seattle Weekly: "Local gardeners and plant lovers should all own, or at least know about, this essential reference book... It's sort of a library in one book, and a great blessing to us."

HortIdeas: "If you garden in the Pacific Northwest, you'll find this indispensable. Oh, how we wish there were similar directories for all regions of the country! But then, to get them done well, we'd need at least a dozen clones of Stephanie Feeney! "

Northwest Garden News: "... if I decide to buy one new gardening book this year, Stephanie Feeney's all-inclusive The Northwest Gardeners' Resource Directory will be it... And each entry is a personal, detailed synopsis of her own experience and recommendation: It's like visiting the place yourself and talking to the people firsthand."

Ed Hume On-Line: "What a great resource book! If you live in the northwest or plan on visiting the area (and are interested in gardening) this is the book for you."

Click Here for some selected excerpts from the new edition. Or would you like to take a look at some of Stephanie's current website favorites—we've pulled them together from her "Gardening In Cyberspace" Chapter and hotlinked them here for your convenience. Have fun!

For an overview of the Directory's coverage, you can check out the Table of Contents.

For updates and additions for the year 2000, Click Here

Click Here to learn how to order. Here's a personal invitation to make the most of the horticultural treasures of the Northwest.

For updates and additions for the Ninth Edition, edited by Seattle's Debra Prinzing and published by Sasquatch Books in 2002, Click Here