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Note: If you live in Southern California our other nursery in
Escondido will probably be closer.
Las Pilitas was started in San Luis Obispo in 1974
and moved to the Santa Margarita site in 1978. The nursery has an
overall foot print of about nine acres with a demonstration
garden around the nursery. (See our
garden pages.) The garden has deep shade under mature 200 year
old oak trees, a desert section, and lots of mature Ceanothus and
Manzanitas.
We grow California native plants.
 You're
welcome to wander out any Saturday to explore the garden and buy
native plants. We carry enough stock to plant out 20 acres of
landscaping at any one time. Most people can fit enough plants to
plant out their front landscape in their minivan/suburban/pickup.
Landscape contractors, gardeners, designers and
architects are welcome Monday through Saturday (call 805-4385992
or fax 805-4385993 before you head out to make sure we have the
plants and will be here).
 We
have lots of wildlife! Customers regularly see large coveys of
California
Quail ( including babies in spring) foraging in our
demonstration garden, huge Western
Whiptail lizards hunting in the pots, and California
Dog-faced butterflies sipping nectar from the abundance of
flowers. Occasionally customers have seen our resident bear!
Most of the pictures on this web site were taken
in this nursery!
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