Las Pilitas Nursery

You can see our sign
as soon as you pull on to Nelson Way. The native plant nursery is right behind it.

We are a native plant nursery.

Directions to Las Pilitas Nursery

We Grow California Native Plants.

Your Address

Retail hours: 9-4 Tuesday through Saturday.

Phone 760.749.5930

Fax 760.749.5932

Email Address escondido@laspilitas.com Please no pdfs and please keep it short.

Las Pilitas Nursery
8331 Nelson way,
Escondido, CA 92026

We accept Cash, Checks, Debit, Visa and Mastercard.

Here is the printable native plant availability list

Browse the native plants Escondido has in stock

Call if you're driving a hundred miles for a weird native plant; when the inventory gets below 10, well, errors are easy to make.

View Larger Mapto the native plant nursery.

All we grow are native plants.

The Escondido nursery grows primarily for the San Diego, Riverside, Orange, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles counties. We have some desert native plants, mountain plants and a lot of chaparral and coastal sage scrub plants. Which means, we have Manzanita, Ceanothus, Salvia, Buckwheat, California Fuchsia and many other native plants.

Our retail section has tables of native plants labeled for your browsing pleasure. Valerie has set areas of the nursery up so you can cruise and browse. We provide wi-fi so you can look up each plant with your tablet or just enjoy the plants at table level.
A California native plant nursery with a lot of different plants for your garden, labels and staff to help you.

Native plant nursery.

The public section of our Escondido plant nursery. All we grow are native plants. - grid24_12

Looking back across one section of the native plant nursery towards the front gate and the office.

The retail section of our native plant nursery. It is set up for you to cruise and read. - grid24_12

Take a date along that likes plants. You can cruise and check out native plants for a couple of hours. Many do.

The plant nursery has a cute little sitting area and 'office'. - grid24_12

Our little office and sitting area. Hubby can sit and surf while you shop for native plants.

A view of the Escondido nursery. All we grow are California native plants.

Looking across the nursery first thing in the morning.

Penstemon spectablis, Showy Monkey flower with an Anna Hummingbird. Hard to beleive this used to be common in the Santa Monica Mtns, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Eagle Rock and most of Southern California. - grid24_12

Here are plants that are native in the Temecula and Murrieta area.

Southern California gardens can support all sorts of
native plants.

Here is a little rock garden at the Escondido Native plant nursery. The soil there was an old trucking yard. Soil is so compacted you can't dig it. We used a jack hammer to dig the fence posts. California native plants like the Penstemon heterophyllus, Dudleya cymosa, Mock Heather, and Sulfur Buckwheat seem to do fine.