California native plants with information about plants, birds, bees and butterflies. This nursery ships throughout the West.

California Native Plants are all we grow!

We've been growing native plants since the 1970's.

You can browse our native plants by clicking on the Browse plants link.

You can search for the right native plant for your yard here.

Santa Margarita

Las Pilitas Nursery
3232 Las Pilitas Rd
Santa Margarita,
Ca 93453
Phone 805.438.5992
Fax 805.438.5993
OPEN:
Friday and Saturday only
from 9am to 4pm

Southern California(Escondido)

Our Southern California Native Plant Nursery is Between San Diego and Los Angeles
8331 Nelson Way
Escondido, CA, 92026.
Phone 760.749.5930
Fax 760.749.5932
OPEN: Tuesday to Saturday
9am to 4pm

California has unique plants and wildlife. We've tried to make this website and our nurseries as unique. We've created thousands of pages of information for you to ponder.
We've spent years finding and taking 10's of thousands of photos of plants, insects, birds, and even reptiles native to California.

Most native plants tolerate our extreme conditions. We ship mailorder to you and they think they are in springtime. OR, come and visit!
Our record low has been -4 F. and a record high of 118 in the shade for 5 days. First frost is usually in September and last frost is many times in June.

California native plants are unique and beautiful. - grid24_12

Not familiar with native plants? Here are pictures.

One of the gray foxes in the area. - grid24_12

We have pages of information about the Nature of California and California wildlife

A nursery full of California native plants for Southern California - grid24_12

Our native plant nursery in Escondido has tens of thousands of native plants for Southern California.

quiz flower is colorful ain't it? - grid24_6

We have a number of
Classes and articles about native plants.

MailOrder

We ship Mondays, (sometimes, Tuesday and Wednesdays as orders and time allow) from Santa Margarita. UPS takes the plants to your door the day after we ship.(Most of California).

Interstate Stock Certificate: (C6925)

USDA-APHIS SOD Certificate: (40 C6925_001).

Certified Epiphyas postvittana free, Ca-4oqlbamc6925001

You're not just a number to us.

Mail order native plants? Yeap. Order by Sunday get them Tuesday in Los Angeles or San Francisco. (Unless it's really wet, UPS hates dripping boxes.)

Hi Again Everybody,

The community website for native gardeners is progressing. A few customers/friends have been asked to check it out. Consequently some features have been refined and bugs squashed, the binary kind. You can learn more about the site here(includes screen shots!).

-Ian

You are not alone.

Salvia Gracias with a Checkerspot - grid24_6

Salvia Gracias is a very fast and flat native sage plant.

Sorry, anyone can be a garden designer. Pencil behind your ear , Sunset Western garden Book, and a lot of noisy self-assertiveness. There are some good designers, but how to separate bags of air from the knowledgeable ones? Questions, do a little of you homework first. Learn some of the plants, something as simple as a few trees, perennials and annuals. Use the tree name like it's a perennial, the annual like a tree and see what happens. Let the games begin! - grid24_6

California plant communities, by cities and zip code

Salvia Celestial Blue flowers and is a hybrid of three native sages., Salvia leucophylla, Salvia clevelandii and Salvia pacyphylla. - grid24_6

Salvia Celestial Blue is one of the Sages we've introduced to the native plant nursery trade.

This little bushtit landed on the Aster flowers and so intent of looking for aphids that he didn't even notice me, 3 feet away. Native plants make homes for native animals. - grid24_12

A bush for a bird? Check out California native plants for the birds in your life. Also check out some native garden examples

A male Anna Hummingbird is full color, Red coloring is shown to intimidate, he can 'turn it off' or down when when he want to. - grid24_6

What are you planting for me? MY garden needs more hummingbird friendly native plants!
Find out how to build a bird house.

When to plant? It is OK to plant native plants all year, for summer and fall plantings just treat the new planting to regular watering during the summer and fall months for the first year.
Winter planting is easier, spring planting is fun!

What are you waiting for? Here are more pages about Native garden how to and design

California native plants are BEAUTIFUL. If this photo looks familar it's probably the most ripped off image on the web, and it's ours.. - grid24_6

We have many native plant pages grouped by type. California native plants are BEAUTIFUL. If this photo looks familiar it's ours

Help?

If you know the plant you are looking for use the links below or the search box below.

plant by scientific name:
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plant by common name:
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plant by cultivar:
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