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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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Native Plants Nature of California Native gardens California images Selected Native Plants Garden DIY Wildlife
How to plant Native Gardening Design Your Garden Edible? Garden Examples Native Herbs Landscaping class

This is the room with the classes, handouts, our research and references.

We've tried to cover everything related to native plants and their ecology, how it relates to wildlife, and relates to your garden.

California is very diverse and in many areas very fragile and misunderstood. We've tried to create a web page, handout or class for each idea or problem.

I pushed a few gallon containers together so you can visualize a California wildflower bouquet. Native plants are beautiful and can create a spectacular garden. - grid24_12
Native plants are beautiful.
Ceanothus or Mountain Lilac flowering times.
Costs in converting a front yard into native plants.
Diseases of native plants
Ecological overview of California native plants
Edible native plants, or you might not die from eating from native plants. Then again.
Fire from a prespective  a native plant 'expert' that was a fireman for 14 years.
Frankia, nitrogen fixation.
Garden Hygiene
Herbs class
How to build stuff
How to Design a garden using Native Plants
How to grow native plants with a veggie garden.
How to key out a flower.
How to plant a California Native Plant
How to take care of your oak. Hug your oak.
Landscaping with California Native Plants
Leaf Burn Times of native plants
Los Angeles native plants Myths and Wives' Tales about Native Plants
Native garden examples
Native Oaks and Mycorrhiza. Good fungus and oak trees
Native Plant Propagation
Nitrogen fixation
Quizzes about California stuff
Recipe for Black Currant Tarts
Roots of native plants and how they work.
San Joaquin Valley toleratant plants
School Garden with California Native Plants
Slopes and erosion control
Weed control
What to do after a wildfire.
What to plant under an oak.
Woodpeckers, Bluebirds, Monarchs, Swallowtails and other Birds or Butterflies
Ceanothus Julia Phelps flowers a deep purple. - grid24_6
Ceanothus or Mountain Lilac flowering times.
Salvia clevelandii, Alpine Sage. with a Costa Hummingbird. California plants attract California birds. - grid24_6
Costs in converting a front yard into native plants.
The polymer crystals are in the mix on the left, regular mix on the right. Diseases are sometimes induced by us. - grid24_6
Diseases of native plants
Manzanita, Ceanothus and Oaks - grid24_6
Ecological overview of California native plants
Fragaria californica Wood Strawberry is edible and although small, tasty. It does well in a container. - grid24_3
Edible native plants, or you might not die from eating from native plants. Then again.
The fire that burned all the manzanitas behind Las Pilitas nursery in 1979. - grid24_6
Fire from a prespective a native plant 'expert' that was a fireman for 14 years.
Frankia root nodules on a Ceanothus. These are GOOD! - grid24_3
Frankia, nitrogen fixation.
An old photo of a fragrant path. - grid24_3
Garden Hygiene
Yerba Buena, Satureja douglasii is a beautiful flat green ground cover that smells good and some use as tea. - grid24_6
Herbs class
Predrill the holes before you put the screws in or you'll split the wood. - grid24_6
How to build stuff
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
How to Design a garden using Native Plants
The flat of vegetables before they were planted out. In a city balcony you could grow these. - grid24_6
How to grow native plants with a veggie garden.
quiz flower is colorful ain't it? - grid24_6
How to key out a flower.
Even the garden gnomes can help plant. When to plant doesn't matter in coastal California. What to plant is another mater. Plant native plants. - grid24_6
How to plant a California Native Plant
This area of the San Joaquin Valley used to have blue oaks, cactus and TONS of poppies. - grid24_6
How to take care of your oak. Hug your oak.
Rose Sage and Mountain Desert Sage, Salvia pachyphylla was spotted all over this slope. Native landscaping in the wild. - grid24_6
Landscaping with California Native Plants
One of the burnt leaves after the test. - grid24_6
Leaf Burn Times of native plants
Christmas berry or Toyon bush. - grid24_6
Los Angeles native plants
A young Anna's hummingbird sticking his tongue out at the photographer. - grid24_6
Myths and Wives' Tales about Native Plants
tacking two little greenhouses together is tacky - grid24_6
Native Plant Propagation
Nitrogen fixing nodules. - grid24_6
Nitrogen fixation
This is what the corn looks like after the rabbit eats it. - grid24_6
Permiculture
flower quiz - grid24_6
Quizzes about California stuff
everyone who tasted these currant tarts liked them, unfortunately the cook ate most of them - grid24_6
Recipe for Black Currant Tarts
The tree roots in early spring seem to warm and melt the snow. - grid24_6
Roots of native plants and how they work.
These buckwheats appeared to be growing quite well off of rainfall south of Lemore along Hwy 41. The only non-watered things other than tumbleweeds that were alive. - grid24_6
San Joaquin Valley tolerant plants
If you've not figured it out yet, Salvia clevelandii Alpine is a great wildlife plant. - grid24_6
School Garden with California Native Plants
a east facing versus south facing chaparral slope - grid24_6
Slopes and erosion control
Cortaderia selloana , Pampas grass. Vandenberg had 2 plants in 1980, 100,000+ in 1995. - grid24_6
Weed control
Las Pilitas Nursery after the 1979 fire before we got the first water tank up. - grid24_6
What to do after a wildfire.
Change the grade around an oak and the oak dies. This one died in about 20 years. - grid24_6
What to plant under an oak.
Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus eating ants - grid24_6
Woodpeckers, Bluebirds, Monarchs, Swallowtails and other Birds or Butterflies