Creach Greenhouse has been in existence as a local wholesale greenhouse and agricultural business since 1965. The twenty-six plus acre growing facility is located off of Fourth Avenue between Evergreen and Adams and has also operated a retail garden center known as the Plant Farm at this location since 1972. The greenhouse business has grown with the community and become a Spokane Valley landmark. The Creach family opens their doors biannually for the community to share the wholesale growing experience , first in the spring when people are shopping for yard and landscape color around Mothers Day and again in November when the greenhouses are opened up for an annual Poinsettia Tour.
Local Spokane Valley patrons and plant lovers throughout the Northwest can also purchase Creach Greenhouse products in a number of other retail store locations throughout the Northwest. In addition, passionate plant lovers across the nation can obtain Creach Greenhouse rare, and hard to find plant material through the retail garden center website, www.spokaneplantfarm.com; Nowhere else in Eastern Washington can you find the service, selection and quality that make up the unique Plant Farm experience. Thousands of Inland Empire region customers patronize the Plant Farm during peak planting and growing season, while tens of thousands more, purchase these same plant products in retail garden centers in surrounding area towns and cities throughout Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana.
Within its ten acres of covered growing space, the Creach family business, identified by its distinctive logo “ Family Owned and Locally Grown” also produces over 90,000 hanging baskets annually, most to area consumers, with an increasingly large number each year going to several of the municipalities and private residence as well as numerous hospitality and tourism related business’ in the surrounding area. The specific focus is to provide plant material that will continue to perform and create brilliant color displays all season long. Other large crops include multiple offerings of geraniums, petunias, perennials vegetables and numerous varieties and presentations of pack flats. Creach Greenhouse produces a significant percentage of its annual production as a variety of different sizes of Wave Petunias. The Inland Empire with its cool nights and long days is an environmentally perfect place to grow Wave Petunias.
Although Creach Greenhouse is 100% agricultural farming at it’s core, the Creach family has made a substantial commitment to implementing innovation and automation in every aspect of their operation. From environmentally friendly, passively cooled greenhouse ranges, automated boom watering over the flat crops, the automated hanging basket growing systems, to the two TTA smart transplanters that quickly plant the millions of plugs that are grown and produced each year, innovation and automation are everywhere that you turn in the growing facility.
During the summer and winter months, Creach Greenhouse brings to market a line up of seasonal crops such as Porch Planters, Hardy Garden Mums and Poinsettias, while supplying a year round demand for decorative foliage and other rare and hard to find pot plants. Many of which are shipped out everyday, from their online order fulfillment center, to every state in the nation.
This family owned business is typical of the multitudes of small businesses that make up the backbone of the American economy and has grown from humble beginning, utilizing many of its own family members who share in the work responsibilities. The Creach family is very involved within their local community, and it is not uncommon for first time customers to realize they have previously met a Creach family member elsewhere in the community prior to their becoming a loyal supporter of this local grower.
Creach Greenhouse / The Plant Farm businesses annually employ in excess of eighty-five people. Many of these employees enjoy permanent employment there as a career. Over the years, the Creach family, led by 83 year old Imogene Creach has quietly gone about their business, providing an annual living for countless employees, and supplying quality products and a memorable growing experience to thousands of Spokane Valley citizens.