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Mediterranean Style Gardens – CA Natives & Other Summer Dry Favorites

California Native Plants It is best to remember that we live in a Mediterranean climate, one defined by long dry summers. Many of these plants are California natives, plants that have adapted to thrive in our summer dry Mediterranean-like climate....

California Native Plants It is best to remember that we live in a Mediterranean climate, one defined by long dry summers. Many of these plants are California natives, plants that have adapted to thrive in our summer dry Mediterranean-like climate....

It’s starting to happen!

Looks like the gardens will peak just in time for our Mother’s Day Party on May 7 & 8! Get all the deets HERE! Everything is blooming about a month late because of the cold and the rain and the...

Looks like the gardens will peak just in time for our Mother’s Day Party on May 7 & 8! Get all the deets HERE! Everything is blooming about a month late because of the cold and the rain and the...

Gone! Poof! Another beauty DISAPPEARED!

So sad! One of these beauties is going bye-bye. You know that feeling you get when you go to your regular grocery store to pick up the essential things that you buy RELIGIOUSLY and that thing, that THING you have...

So sad! One of these beauties is going bye-bye. You know that feeling you get when you go to your regular grocery store to pick up the essential things that you buy RELIGIOUSLY and that thing, that THING you have...

Annie's Gardening Videos Library

Here at our urban nursery, we’re tight on space and we don’t always have the luxury of planting everything in the ground. If we’ve offered it for sale, then we’ve tried it in a container – from small trees to...

Here at our urban nursery, we’re tight on space and we don’t always have the luxury of planting everything in the ground. If we’ve offered it for sale, then we’ve tried it in a container – from small trees to...

Fantastical and Majestic Giant Dahlias!

We Bay Area folks are blessed by the Dahlia Deities, for we not only get to grow these magnificent towers of flower, they grow here LIKE WEEDS (Have no fear, they are not invasive and do not self-sow). Those of...

We Bay Area folks are blessed by the Dahlia Deities, for we not only get to grow these magnificent towers of flower, they grow here LIKE WEEDS (Have no fear, they are not invasive and do not self-sow). Those of...

September in Our Gardens

September in Our Gardens

Well, here’s my first go at a blog! I will try not to write too much as I am pretty chatty when it comes to gardens, but hey, isn’t this pretty! As you can see, I have packed in a...

September in Our Gardens

Well, here’s my first go at a blog! I will try not to write too much as I am pretty chatty when it comes to gardens, but hey, isn’t this pretty! As you can see, I have packed in a...