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 Plant Selection Guide
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Plant
Availability List
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Gift
Certificates
Please email the dollar amount and the
recipient's name to us (orderdesk@streamsidenativeplants.com),
and we will send you a colourful PDF for
printing or forwarding.
Payment via e-transfer (payment@streamsidenativeplants.com).
Customer pick
up
Orders can be made ready for pick-up with sufficient
notice. Please email your request.
Deliveries
We
group our orders headed south, north and west of the nursery.
Cost per delivery is based on distance and, for combined orders,
is proportional to the amount of space required in our truck and
trailer. We do not deliver down logging roads.
Shipping
When delivering via our truck & trailer is not possible, we
can build customized crates and ship the order. This option
tends to be cost-prohibitive for smaller orders, given the cost
of labour and materials for the crates. Please call us to
discuss. 250-757-9999
Wholesale
Pricing
In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of both
Streamside Native Plants and those businesses and organizations that
rely upon our wholesale pricing, we have further defined who
qualifies as a wholesale customer. Wholesale pricing
continues to be subject to the owner's discretion and typically
applies to repeat customers who pre-order larger quantities of
plants. Businesses who are first-time buyers will be subject to
retail pricing, to which the retail scaled-discount system
applies. For a typical landscaping job, this can equate to
as much as 20% off our retail pricing (please note that some
species are excluded from discounts). Organizations that
automatically qualify for wholesale pricing include: stewardship
groups and other not-for-profit societies; various levels of
government, including First Nations; schools; and environmental
consultant-led restoration of private lands.
Retail
Sales
Everyone is welcome to visit and shop at the nursery during
our retail shopping hours!
We have a discount structure to make
native plants more affordable for all gardeners.
Payment
Returns
All sales are final.
We encourage applying some 'carpenter's advice' when shopping
for plants, "measure twice and cut once" or, in the case of
plant shopping - plan, plan, plant!
We're here to help.
Returning used
containers
We typically do not accept used containers (pots) back from
customers. In past years, numerous attempts were made to
reuse pots; unfortunately, too many were returned in unusable
condition. Recycling facilities will not take pots with
soil, so many pots ended up at the landfill. Please rinse
the containers and drop them off at a recycling depot.
Photo - J. Jackson
About the company and owners:
Streamside Native
Plants only sells plants that are native to coastal British
Columbia. Our customers include private
home
owners, stewardship groups, environmental consultants,
landscapers, parks departments, schools, societies and various
levels of governments.
Jim Roberts and Cyndi
Hampton are a husband and wife team and owners of Streamside
Native Plants. Originally from North Vancouver, they lived
in the Victoria area for several years before taking a
sabbatical from work to set out on a 14-month RV journey through
BC and the Yukon. Back on Vancouver Island and with their
adventure boots filled, they were looking forward to finding a
small farm near Courtenay and "putting down some roots".
Jim is a biologist
(R.P.Bio) with more than 25 years experience, including various
regulatory roles and as an environmental consultant. Jim has
worked with both Fisheries and Oceans Canada and BC 
Ministry of Environment, Lands and
Parks, reviewing development proposals, and supporting fisheries
management efforts. Over the past 15 years, his consulting
experience has included a focus on enhancement and restoration
works (stream, wetland and riparian) for a wide range of
development projects. Jim led environmental permitting
efforts (including fish habitat compensation plans, supporting
Fisheries Act authorizations), planting plan development, site
preparations and planting, maintenance, and monitoring of
revegetation projects throughout coastal British Columbia.
Cyndi worked at the
Institute of Resource, Environment, and Sustainability at UBC
and Environment Canada, followed by a degree in Geography
(Master's-level studies in watershed management and ecology).
Most recently, she was employed with environmental and
engineering consulting firms where she worked as a project
administrator and then as a business development specialist
focused on proposal-writing.
Jim and Cyndi are
enjoying running Streamside Native Plants, propagating and
growing native plants of coastal British Columbia to support
revegetation work, landscaping and gardening projects.
Updated: April 15, 2025