About us

     Jurassic Plants Nursery is an on-line, cottage specialty nursery located in paradise -- in the temperate rainforest of the Sunshine Coast of south-western British Columbia, in zone 8(b).   (If you want to join us in paradise, check out  www.sunshinecoastland.com. )

     We grow Cycads for Canada.  As far as we know, we are the only Canadian nursery specializing in cycads.   We grow all our own plants from seed, ensuring they have a healthy and hardy start.

     We want to participate in the preservation of these rare, endangered plants of antiquity, and by propagating them we lessen the demand on wild populations.  We are currently growing out a representative collection of cycads to donate to the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden (of which Lori is the President) in furtherance of the conservation effort.   We are a member of the Cycad Society, a world-wide organization dedicated to the preservation of cycads.

     Lori gives digital slide presentations on cycads, and has written an article on cycads published in the November/December 2006 issue of Gardens West magazine.   Jurassic Plants Nursery was also featured in the April 23rd, 2007 MacLean's article entitled "Next best thing to a pet dinosaur," and in The Vancouver Sun on July 6th in an article by Steve Whysall entitled "Jurassic Plants."   See the Links page to view these articles..

     We welcome visitors to the nursery but, as it is also our home, by appointment only; please call ahead (604-883-0079).

Address:  11269 Sunset Cove Road, Halfmoon Bay, B.C., Canada   V0N 1Y2

Phone  604-883-0079                           e-mail:  info@jurassicplantsnursery.com

Proprietor, Lori Pickering, in front of the tool shed, holding a cycad bonsai (Cycas sexsemenifera)