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We all come from different backgrounds, but the
one thing we all have in common is our love for creating beauty through the
craft of landscape design, plant knowledge and helping people bring the
garden home. Claire, Eli,
Kathryn, and Parker, work in concert at the ever popular
Vision Nursery. Opened in 2000, it has already become a
favorite shopping point for locals and international visitors. Many of the tourists that come to us liken our nursery to a boutique Butchart Gardens in Victoria, BC. We always have the electric kettle on for tea, which is best enjoyed while swinging in the tea house looking at the waterfalls. We welcome you to enjoy the beauty of nature as it is honorably displayed on our grounds.
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Allan Bernards
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I moved to the Peninsula in 1985 from McMinnville, Oregon. With a love of gardening and landscapes I started Vision Landscape in 1989 with focus on design and installation. Seeing the need for a botanical garden based nursery, I decided to start Vision Landscape Nursery in 2000. My dream was to give people a place to relax while being surrounded by different garden displays and water features.
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Claire Bernards
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Claire was an elementary school teacher in Kitsap County when she met her sweetheart, Allan in 1998. He shared with her his dream to start a nursery, that would complement his successful landscaping business. Claire, being an enthusiastic gardener thought this sounded pretty fabulous. She decided to retire from teaching to open up Vision Nursery in 2000. Through her personal experience with plants and her research abilities, she continues to learn so much about flowers, plants, trees, shrubs, and the people who love them. Claire is a certified professional horitculturist She is a big animal lover and dedicates many events and dollars to support local animal welfare groups on the Olympic Peninsula. Claire invites you to please look into supporting: Peninsula Friends of the Animals, Welfare for Animals Guild, Clallam County Humane Society, and the Raptor Center, as well as environmental and land preserve organizations. Claire's suggestion: Please do not breed or buy while shelter animals die. Older animals make great family members. Consider adopting an older animal friend. |
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I joined the Vision Nursery team in the fall of 2005. I pretty much keep things looking great around here whether it is the nursery or in the display gardens. I’m the man when it comes to potting up perennials, trees and shrubs. The agriculture and horticulture classes in high school got me interested in pursuing this kind of work. Being outside, along with the physical work is a definite benefit to working at Vision Nursery. My interests are listening to good music, helping bands out by promoting them, caring for and riding horses, and writing poems and stories. Someday I would like to visit Japan.
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Eli |
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