Squak Mountain Greenhouse & Nursery

Specialties

Squak Mt. Nursery is a destination quality, full-​service garden center located in a beautiful natural setting. Only a mile off I-​90 in Issaquah, WA, you feel as though you have left the hustle and bustle far behind. The nursery showcases a magnificent waterfall feature, constructed with over 200 tons of rock and beautifully planted. There are also display beds throughout the 10-​acre nursery grounds. Our garden center features one acre of growing greenhouses, an inspiring gift shop known as the Garden Shed, and a complete nursery.

Squak Mt.‘s greenhouse team grows beautiful color for you all year. You are able to select top quality, homegrown annuals directly from their growing benches. Choose from thousands of primroses, geraniums, fuchsia baskets, bedding plants, vegetables, mums, pansies and poinsettias. The list is endless and varies by the season. Also don’t miss their amazing combination moss baskets, which are stunning.

The Garden Shed is housed in a charming structure with lofty ceilings and soothing colors. You will find the array of garden gifts, décor and tools to be unique and enchanting. During the holiday season the Garden Shed is transformed into a wonderland of decorations and ornaments for your home.

Squak Mt.‘s complete nursery is staffed by friendly, knowledgeable garden lovers, who are happy to help you in selecting from their complete selection of shrubs, trees, perennials, roses, herbs, vines, ground covers and ornamental grasses. Truly Squak

History

Established in 1976.

Squak Mt. Greenhouses and Nursery has grown up in the beautiful Tibbetts Creek Valley of Issaquah, Washington. From a mainly wholesale growing operation specializing in fuchsias and house plants, it has blossomed into a complete retail garden center serving the greater Seattle area.

In 1976, Jim and Becky Pommer, the current owners, purchased Smith Gardens from Walt and Myrna Smith. For three generations, the Smith family had farmed the southern end of the Mercer Slough off Bellevue Way. When the Factoria interchange was built, the Smith farm was purchased to aid in the highway construction. In the early 70’s Walt dismantled his glass and wood greenhouses in Bellevue, reassembled them on our current site in Issaquah, and continued growing.

Early in the business, we increased the crops grown and went from seasonal to year round production. In 1980, Squak Mt. Greenhouses and Nursery expanded the retail business selling many of the flowering annuals grown in our greenhouses. In the