Las Pilitas Nursery, Santa Margarita

3232 Las Pilitas Rd, Santa Margarita, CA 93453
Directions and Map

Phone: 805.438.5992
Fax : 805.438.5993
Email pan@laspilitas.com
Retail Hours: Friday and Saturday 9am to 4pm

Printable Price & Availability list

Inventory list with pictures

Native Plant Catalog

The little town of Santa Margarita, not Rancho Santa Margarita.  We grow native plants in the country.
We're outside of Santa Margarita.

What forms of payment do you accept?

We accept Cash, Checks, Visa, Mastercard and American Express(which costs us more).

Wholesale during the week by appointment only. Call or email over your plant list so we can pull your plants.

About

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 Friday or 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 or fax before you head out to make sure we have the plants and will be here).

Interstate Stock Certificate (C6925)
and
USDA-APHIS SOD Certificate (40 C6925_001).

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!

Our last frost is usually in late May, our first frost frost os usually in early October.

We grow most of our stock in the open with shade limited to the shade plants.

Most of the pictures on this web site were taken in this nursery!

For more, try typing in your question into the search box.
Movie: One of our potting trailers in the snow.

Why do your plants look cold? We grow most of plants in the open or with minimum protecting so they'll LOVE your garden.
Las Pilitas Nursery in about 2000 - grid24_12
We have a lot of fun horsing around in the nursery. - grid24_6
A California native plant nursery located between Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo. All we grow are native plants. - grid24_12
Each little row has about 700 gallon sized plants.
The nursery looking down towards the front gate on a cold winter morning in 2011. The white row cover can keep the gallon plants a few degrees warmer. They still freeze, but stay above about 20F. This is why our plants grow when others fail.  - grid24_12
Our nursery has open stock.

Last edited on 2013-03-27 10:47:58.

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