1912
Orson Briggs starts Briggs Nursery, growing small fruits and vegetables in Olympia.
1950
Bruce Briggs (son of Orson) changes the business into a nursery operation focusing on Rhododendron and woody ornamentals.
1965
Bruce Briggs in conjunction with WSU, develops the protocol for tissue propagation (Micro-Propagation).
1983
Briggs starts selling excess micro-propagated plant material (Liners) to growers.
1985
New tissue culture laboratory is built.
1998
Annual liner sales exceed finished stock sales for the first time.
2000
Perennial plug sales start.
2002
Outside independent field sales representatives for liners are contracted. Sales yard operation is sold.
2006
Briggs builds a new state of the art TC laboratory and propagation house effectively doubling the size of the lab.
2006
Donates the Olympia Land to the YMCA of Olympia and moves remaining operations to Elma.
2010
Briggs stops supplying finished containers to retail garden centers and focuses entire production on Liners.
2013
Briggs is purchased by the Sidhu family.
2016
Briggs resumes container production and expands to work with garden centers.
2019
Introduces 2.5 x 3.25 inch “L3” liner size for faster container finishing and greater versatility
2020
Expands ornamental grasses line and switches to deeper 72 cell plug tray.
2021
Significant increase in production of Emerald Green Arborvitae in C5 and C7 containers.
2023 and beyond...
New automation equipment is brought online.