Lawyer Nursery, Inc. was founded in 1959 in the Clark Fork River Valley near Plains, Montana. We have more than 500 acres of prime nursery land in addition to our office, packing shed and warehouses. At Plains, we produce deciduous seedlings and transplants, rootstocks, shrubs, and conifers. Our Plains climate is USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5. Soils range from sandy loam to a sandy clay loam with a normal growing season of 100 days.

In 1988 our business expanded to Olympia, Washington where facilities include 175 acres of rich, uniform sandy loam. This outstanding soil allows us to root culture our crops with advanced methods of root pruning, wrenching, and nutrient management. At Olympia, USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7, we grow a wide assortment of conifer and deciduous seedlings and transplants including difficult to propagate species.

Lawyer Nursery, Inc. has farmed in the irrigated desert of the Columbia Basin near Connell, Washington since 1998. Here, we grow fruit rootstocks, budded fruit trees, ornamental trees and shrubs, and a variety of conservation plant material. The soil is a silty to sandy loam that produces high quality root systems with robust tops. This very productive climate has a growing season of 140 days in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6.

We have modern cold storage facilities totaling over 500,000 cubic feet of refrigerated and humidified storage. We grow our product in open fields for one or more growing seasons. Then we dig, grade, count and bundle our plants for storage and shipment. All of our stock is sold bareroot in bundles of generally 10 to 100 plants with a $200.00 minimum order value. Most of our broadleaf deciduous species are dug in the fall and early winter after they are fully dormant. We dig our conifers grown at the Olympia nursery in mid-winter and at the Plains nursery as early as possible in the spring. All stock is held in cold storage until shipped. We propagate most of our nursery stock from seed and today Lawyer Nursery, Inc. offers one of the largest selections of field grown nursery stock in the wholesale nursery trade.