Locally gathered and grown.

From seed to sprout, our nursery nurtures up to 120,000 native plants at any one time. The plants are unique because they are grown from seeds collected along Oregon’s North Coast, making them locally adapted to thrive in our coastal ecosystems. After 3 years of growing, strong root structures have developed, and the plants are ready for their new homes in the watershed. Once planted, they play a critical role in restoring habitats to create cleaner water and better habitats for fish, birds, pollinators, wildlife and people.

Plants for Coastal Restoration

Our nursery propagates and distributes over 75,000 native plants annually to the Northwest Oregon Restoration Partnership. These plants support landscape-scale watershed restoration projects implemented by our partners on private, state, and public lands.

Service Area Map

Northwest Oregon Restoration Partnership:

This partnership was founded by the Bureau of Land Management in 2011. NORP is a collaborative effort of over 30 partners who are united in their need for locally sourced, genetically appropriate plants.

Service Area:

Spanning from Clatsop County to Douglas County. The service area map highlights the large area that benefits from the work of the partnership.

Who can join:

Nonprofits, schools, state and federal agencies and tribes.

What it means to be a partner:

Our partners are organizations completing restoration projects along the Oregon Coast. Each fall the general inventory becomes available to the partnership and partners are able to request plants needed for upcoming projects. Partners must sign a Memorandum of Understanding and provide reporting for planted plants.

Please reach out to our Native Plant Partnership Coordinator: claire@tbnep.org

Each fall our general inventory becomes available to the partnership. Projects with less than 5,000 plants are able to pull from the general inventory. If your project includes forbs, you must place a preorder with about 2 years of lead time.

Bureau of Land Management, Clatsop Soil Water Conservation District. Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce, Confederated Tribes of the Siltez Indians, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Lincoln City Parks and Recreation, Lincoln County Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District, Lower Nehalem Community Trust, Lower Nehalem Watershed Council, Midcoast Watersheds Council, McKenzie River Trust, Necanicum Watershed Council, Nestucca, Neskowin & Sand Lake Watersheds Council, North Coast Land Conservancy, North Coast Watershed Association, Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, Siuslaw Soil Water Conservation District, Siuslaw Watershed Council, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Yakona Head Nature Preserve & Learning Center and more.

native plant nursery shade house

Supporting youth in our community.

The Native Plant Nursery is a successful program because of our unique partnership with the Oregon Youth Authority (OYA), a state youth detention facility located next to our nursery in Tillamook. The OYA crew provides essential labor to grow the plants. In return, the nursery provides on-the-job training, life skill development and a chance to build savings for release. The program serves as a bridge for these at-risk and incarcerated youth to transition from institutionalization to society and their contribution to the nursery is invaluable.

Helping native plants spread the love.

Local seed collection is the only way to ensure our plants are native to the Oregon Coast. We work with restoration partners, youth crews, and community volunteers to collect seeds from over 50 different types of native plants. Plants work hard to grow their seeds and disperse them into the environment. We honor their effort by only collecting seeds from healthy plants, abundant plant populations, and with restoration projects in mind. Sedges and bushes stabilize riverbanks and filter water to create habitat for birds. Sitka spruce and maples produce shade to keep rivers cool for salmon. Flowering plants, like the early blue violet, create habitat for pollinators.