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Greenhouses full of custom hanging baskets and tender annuals welcome shoppers to the Yellow Rose Nursery in Prosser.Ĭaitlin Towry / Special to the Yakima Herald-Republic With my young daughters in tow, I was able to peacefully shop while my kids enjoyed snapping photos of their favorite plants, admiring a crocodile-shaped juniper near the pond, traipsing over a cute footbridge and gobbling back to the turkeys residing under a twisting wisteria plant. A personal favorite was the Children’s Display Garden. The numerous and lovely display gardens, including those with themes like Mediterranean, Japanese, West Coast, Xero Scape and Alpine, inspire shoppers with plant combinations, water features and hardscape ideas.
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Just a quick 49-mile drive down I-82 from Yakima will bring you to a veritable oasis of ornamental trees, evergreens, shrubs, flowers and other companion products necessary for a successful garden. If you’re finding yourself in need of some new (or, ahem, replacement) plants, the Yellow Rose Nursery, 600 Merlot Drive, Prosser, is an excellent place to start. Woe to those who, like yours truly, bought tomato starts with hope in their hearts on Mother’s Day, only to have them face some fairly frigid evenings that may have left said plants unhappy, if not dead. Warmer weather is finally starting to show its sunny face in the Yakima Valley, and that inevitably means, for those of us inclined, it’s time for plant shopping.