Charter Creek Nursery, est. 1988
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Lake Cowichan · Family owned since 1988

Grown here, by us, for the people down the road.

Thirty-eight years on the same corner. Japanese maples and cedar for your yard, tomatoes by the bucket for your canning, and flowers you cut yourself. Come in, wander the rows, take your time. Somebody will find you.

Two people cutting sunflowers in the zinnia rows, with the forested hillside above the farm behind them.
Cutting sunflowers in the u-pick rows, September. Everything on this page grows within sight of this spot.

The farm

Everything grows on this one piece of ground

A nursery and a produce farm, run by one family, on the same corner since 1988. Trees all year. Produce and flowers from June until the frost. Whether you want a hedge for the whole property or one jar of zinnias for the kitchen table, you are welcome here.

Rows of potted Japanese maples in deep red autumn colour.

Trees and hedging

Japanese maples, cedar and pine, grown from small and hardened off in our weather. Trees that have already survived a Lake Cowichan winter.

Trees and hedging
A field tomato the size of a fist, held in a gloved hand with the tomato rows behind.

Produce by the pound

Field tomatoes, dill cukes, peppers, beets, carrots, squash and pumpkins. Picked that morning, sold by weight, priced the way produce used to be.

Vegetables and pre-orders
The self-serve cut flower stand: tiers of black tins full of zinnias, dahlias, gladiolus and strawflowers under a Locally Grown sign.

Pick your own

Walk the rows and pick tomatoes at $1 a pound. Cut your own flowers at the stand, a dollar or two a stem, every day it is light.

Flowers and pick your own
A big bunch of zinnias in pink, red, orange and cream with purple statice, ready to go.

Event flowers

Weddings, funerals, birthdays. Flowers that were in the ground this morning, cut for the day that matters to you.

Weddings and events
Mum and Dad in front of the big magnolia at the nursery.

Our story

It started with Dad's van

In 1988 Dad painted the phone number on the side of a van and started selling cedar to anyone who would stop. Thirty-eight years in, it is still the family. Still the same road. Still the same number.

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The nursery

6879 Cowichan Lake Road
Lake Cowichan, BC

Corner of Cowichan Lake Road and Skutz Falls Road. Look for the greenhouses.

Hours

Open daily, 9 am to 5 pm

Cut flower stand open daily. U-pick tomatoes in season.

Call

Call or text 236-996-6245

The farm line has an answering machine nobody checks. Use the cell.

Directions and map