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Las Pilitas Nursery

California Native Plants are all we grow!

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3232 Las Pilitas Rd
Santa Margarita, CA 93453
Fri. & Sat. from 9am-4pm
8331 Nelson Way
Escondido, CA 92026
Tues. to Sat. from 9am-4pm

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100% California Native Plants

Since the 1970's Las Pilitas Nursery has been combining research and California native plants. We do the work, you get to play with the plants and enjoy the resulting web pages.

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

You can query native plants for your yard here. We've tried to provide you with vast resources about native plants.

Our Catalog of Native Plants

If you know the plant you are looking for use the links below or the search box to peruse the catalog.
A California native plant nursery located between Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo. All we grow are native plants. - grid24_12
Las Pilitas Nursery in Escondido, all we grow are native plants. About 12 miles from Bonsall, Escondido, Valley Center and Temecula. - grid24_12

Native plant by scientific name:
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Native plant by common name:
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Native plant by cultivar:
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Most California native plants tolerate our extreme conditions. We ship mailorder to you and the plants think they are in springtime when they are planted out at your location.. OR, come and visit, it could be snowing, or 100F, all in the same week.
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.

Buy Native Plants online!

We make the plants available online when the root balls fill in enough to hold together in shipment.
We ship Mondays, (sometimes, Tuesday and Wednesdays as orders and time allow) from Santa Margarita. UPS takes the plants to your door in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Fransisco and most of California the day after we ship.

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.

Ship native plants? Yeap! Order by Sunday get them Tuesday in Los Angeles or San Francisco. (Unless it's really wet, UPS hates dripping boxes.)
How to order? Go to the individual plant page and look for the "add to cart". As long as "add to cart"is there you can order our native plants. If the 'add to cart" is not there, we do not have any plants ready yet.
Salvia Celestial Blue is REALLY blue. Native plants are wonderfully fragrant and colorful. Celestial Blue has grown into a six ft. bush with no irrigation in both Los Angeles and San Diego. You'll have to water it a few times to start it, but then it's a natural! - grid24_12
We work to make native plants grow for you. Our plants love to go to Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego or Sacramento. They think it's spring!
Zauschneria Bert's Bluff, Erigeron Wayne Roderick, and Deer grass in San Luis Obispo California plants for California gardens..
You can select native plants for your yard with mynativeplants.com  or join Garden Theory to show off your native garden or view other folks gardens and get ideas about urban farming and permaculture.
One of the gray foxes in the area. Native animals need native plants. - grid24_12
We have pages of information about the Nature of California and California wildlife
All we grow are native plants. California has about 5000 native plants. Many are annuals, we grow about 1000 of the perennials, shrubs and trees native to California. We do not sell seed, nor grow annuals.
Salvia Gracias with a Checkerspot butterfly. Native plants can bring a garden to life with native butterflies. - 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. A native plant makes a home for a native animal. - 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 wants 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
Band Tailed Pigeons in flight over the nursery. Native plants equal native birds. - grid24_12
Customers fly in from all over the world to visit our Santa Margarita Nursery. We ship native plants to most of the West and all of California from here.
An overview of the nursery stock at Escondido. All we grow are native plants. - grid24_6
The Escondido nursery is more geared for Southern California native plants gardens and landscaping. We're less than an hour from Eastern Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego.
Anabelle will help you. - grid24_6
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