Thanks to all of our customers for your continued patronage.
This will be our last inventory for 2013. We will be open through December 21, Monday - Saturday 10-4. After December 21st. we will close for our winter break.
Check our website for the latest availability. http://www.calfloranursery.com/inventory Though we are out of some favorites, we still have a good supply to consider. Take advantage of the cooler temperatures and pending rainy season to get plants established.
We have a nice selection of plants from California's coastal forests and chaparral communities. Toyon, California lilacs, manzanita, huckleberry, salal, coast silk tassel, wax myrtle, and sword ferns are excellent evergreen landscaping subjects.
A wonderful and useful grass native to coastal bluffs and forests is Pacific reed grass. We carry a beautiful cultivar selected by Roger Raiche called 'The King' which is gaining popularity with our landscape designers. It is a large, bold grass with deep green wide blades growing 3-4 foot high. It has a lot of presence and always looks good. It has performed beautifully in our landscape with our heavy clay soils, given a little shade and occasional summer water.
Also available is the western columbine, a hummingbird favorite with it's orangey-red and yellow spurred flowers. For fans of the plant family Apiacea we have cow parsnip, Lomatium and five different Angelica species. Members of the Apiacea are excellent for encouraging beneficial insects.
We have some very nice, ready to plant, four inch pots of the annual, elegant tarweed, Madia elegans. Perfect for habitat gardeners who want to encourage bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects. The seeds are a favorite of finches.
There are a few non-natives worth pointing out. We have a nice crop of the Chilean perennial, Francoa ramosa, commonly called maiden's wreath. Not commonly found in the nursery trade, this dependable perennial grows in part shade with occasional summer water. Long graceful flower stems of white flowers in early summer are attractive and make good cut flowers.
Bupleurum fruticosum is an interesting and elegant evergreen shrub with blue-green foliage growing 4-6 foot tall. The umbels of chartreuse flowers are highly attractive to beneficial insects. We just received reports of it proving to be deer resistant by a landscape professional that gardens in west Sonoma County. She on occasion will trial plants for us, outside of her deer fence and we just got the thumbs up on Bupleurum. Now available in one gallons.
One other non-native shrub to bring to your attention is our large crop of Philadelphus 'Belle Etoile' in one gallons. A deciduous shrub that will bring you pleasure in early summer with it's sweetly fragrant flowers. This cultivar of mock orange sports an abundance of white flowers with a flush of mauve at the base of each petal for a subtle and pleasing effect.
For gardeners on your gift list we offer gift certificates. You can stop by during business hours or we can do it over the phone with a credit card. We can put the certificate in the mail for you or send directly to the person you wish to gift.
For book lovers, some of you may remember Heidi Freestone, a talented garden designer who worked at our nursery for a decade. She just published a novel, a work of fiction, titled Growing Home, set in rural Sonoma County. Heidi describes it as..."lots of Sonoma County, food, gardening and a little bit of love."