Thanksgiving Update
We will not be shipping the week of Thanksgiving Nov 21st. If you want your orders before Thanksgiving we will extend our cutoff to get your order in by Monday the 14th at 9am. Only orders that come in before then will be shipped out the week of Monday the 14th.
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Closed for walk-in sales
Update September 2022We are hoping to be open for a spring plant sale in 2023 but for night now we are doing scheduled pickups and shipping only.
Pickup by appointmentWe will continue curbside pickup by appointment. Please place an online order through our website and select Pickup as your Delivery method. We will email you to schedule a pickup date. Pickups are ready after 10:30am and can be scheduled for a Wed - Sat. Give us at least 24 hours to prep your order. Again, dates will be confirmed via email.
Our Central Coast Native Plant Nursery
SLO Town and Paso Wine Country
Las Pilitas Nursery3232 Las Pilitas Road
Santa Margarita, CA 93453
email: penny@laspilitas.com or bawilson@laspilitas.com
phone: 805.438.5992
fax: NA
Hours
Open 9am to 4pm Friday and Saturday.
We accept Cash, Checks, Visa, Mastercard and American Express(which costs us more).
We offer limited wholesale. Please see our wholesale rules. Wholesale
Directions
Contact Us
Printable Price & Availability list
Inventory list with pictures
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.
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!
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