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A Portland Treasure: Pistils Nursery

by Jim McCausland, Sunset Senior Garden Writer

There’s a beguiling look, sound, and scent to feed store-nursery combinations that I just love, especially this time of year. As soon as you walk through the front door you’re in a different world, surrounded by indoor plants, bins full of bulk soil amendment, stock tanks full of newly hatched chicks, seed racks, and a chalk board announcing specials of the day and whatever message the owner happens to have for loyal customers … read full story.

Portland’s Pistils Nursery

by Monica Willis

On a tiny lot in Portland, Ore., Mégan Twilegar oversees a bucolic urban nursery where plants grow, chickens frolic, and gardeners congregate. “We try to bring the country into the city,” says Mégan, shown here with dogs Blue and Kopi and one of her bantam hens.

Haute Diggity

(The Hit List)

This NoPo pioneer sources nearly all of its plants from small growers in the Willamette Valley, about 20 percent is raised organically at the nursery’s own site about a mile from the store. And the botique houses one of the most interesting arrays of exotic houseplants in the city, like elkhorn ferns and butterfly plants poised to migrate home with you.

Pistils Nursery

(from Willamette Week’s “Pocket Shop” guide)

Many visit this bright gardeners’ paradise for plants, from hard-to-find-sedums to tall, stately stands of bamboo. The rest come to eyeball the chicks — adorable, fluffy, nonstop peeping baby chickens the shop sells to Portland’s exploding population of urban chicken keepers. Most of Pistils’ truly stunning selection of plants are grown in the Willamette Valley, and 25 percent of the stock is sprouted at the shop’s own PDX grow site. There are workshops, too …