Las Pilitas Nursery
California Native Plants are all we grow!
This website is dedicated to Bert Wilson. His genius continues to inspire us.
Update December 2021We are still closed for walk-ins. We will continue to focus on serving our online customers. Thank you for your support!
Pickup by appointmentWe will continue curbside pickup by appointment. Please place an online order through our website and write "pick up" and the date you want to come get the plants in the message box. Pickups are ready after 10:30am and can be scheduled for a Wed - Sat. Give us at least 24 hours to prep your order. We will email you to confirm the date works.
Note for pick up orders: Shipping and handling, although on our order form, will not be charged when we run your credit card.
email: penny@laspilitas.com or bawilson@laspilitas.com
phone: 805.438.5992
fax: NA
Open 9am to 4pm Friday and Saturday.
We accept Cash, Checks, Visa, Mastercard and American Express(which costs us more).
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Printable Price & Availability list
Inventory list with pictures
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.
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.
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.Most of the pictures on this web site were taken in this nursery!
For more, try typing in your question into the search box.Why do your plants look cold? We grow most of plants in the open or with minimum protecting so they'll LOVE your garden.
A short video of a native plant nursery.
Looking out the window of a car on a fast trip up Las Pilitas Road
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