Fraser Valley Greenhouse Supply Limited

Soil is the reason garden retail in Chilliwack outperforms what a city of this size would normally support. Greenhouse and nursery growing is one of the leading agricultural sectors in a municipality where farmland covers something like 17,000 hectares and agriculture makes up close to 30 per cent of economic activity. There are more than 700 farms inside the city limits, which supports a supply trade that a purely suburban market would not. The practical result is that a garden centre here is often attached to real growing rather than to a distribution depot, and the person selling you a plant may be the person who potted it.

The name points toward the supply side of this category rather than the display bench, which in Chilliwack means the seed, feed, fencing and irrigation trade that serves people growing at a scale rather than in a border. That is a reading of the name and nothing more; what is actually carried is not something this listing establishes, and it is exactly the sort of thing to settle on the phone. A number and a website are both published above, which is more than most entries in this section carry, and between them they should answer what the name only hints at. No street address is given, so establishing whether the site takes walk-in visitors is a reasonable first question.