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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.

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