Over the past half-century, the Pacific Northwest has grown into an extraordinary center of horticultural experimentation, shaped not by a single institution or movement, but by a loose and often eccentric network of nurserypeople, collectors, propagators, and gardeners. Nursery People investigates this horticultural culture through its people, places, and plants: tracing introductions and lineages, documenting gardens and collections, and examining how knowledge passes between generations of growers. It is both a history of an unusual regional horticultural community and an inquiry into the conditions that allow botanical curiosity, technical expertise, and individual obsession to reshape the possibilities of garden-making.