Can anyone recommend a rose nursery in the San Francisco Bay Area? I'm looking for yellow climbers, particularly "Autumn Sunset", "Lemon Meringue", Sky's the Limit" and "Flutterbye".
Rose Nurseries in Bay Area?
Welcome to DG, CABrit, we're in the same neighbourhood. LOL
Check out Regans Nursery in Fremont for a fantastic selection of roses. Most of the other nurseries around here have really limited supplies at this time of year. Good luck.
There's also a place near Half Moon Bay, I have no idea what the name of it is but it's on the left as you're driving on 92 toward HMB and they always have a bunch of roses. It's in the same general area as Half Moon Bay Nursery, can't remember if it's east or west of that though but it's in the same stretch of road (I think it's a little bit east, but I'm really not sure). I was thinking of heading over to HMB sometime this weekend if traffic isn't too terrible (ha ha!) so if I do I'll try to pay attention and see what the name of the place is.
Thanks guys (I'm learning American real quick!!). Will try the HMB spots and Regans. Any trip to a garden center/nursery is bliss for me.
Hey wgnkiwi, are you from New Zealand, or do you take your name from the fruit. Will they grow and fruit round here?
I think this may be the nursery in HMB that has a bunch of roses--not positive though
http://gardens.com/go/view/9316/
i am from NZ, but i think kiwifruit will grow here too. Nice long summers...
Nursery hopping, I mean shopping - I love it, even if I'm not buying (which almost never happens).
How long have you been here in CA?
Been in CA 6.5 years, in Burlingame since Feb 07. Millbrae before - an apartment with just a balcony that I crammed with pot, I mean container, plants!! Now we rent a house with a garden and a huge deck, yeay! One small part will be my spare-time-garden design project. It's mostly dappled shade. The overhanging trees are native species I believe and continually drop dead leaves that are buff and prickly - are they California holly or live oaks? They make a good mulch but I'll need to take their continued appearance into account when designing the plot. I want to use native, drought-tolerent plants. Any tips, anyone?
What kind of garden do you have, wgnkiwi?
BTW, the roses are for friends in Lake County. I'm helping them with the landscaping around their Lodge and Event Center at Blue Lakes
I would recommend checking out www.laspilitas.com They're a mail order nursery, but more than that they have great references on the various CA plant communities, you can find your city and it'll tell you what plant communities are in your area, then you can get a list of the plants that grow in that community. You can order some of them from their website, but a lot of more common ones you can probably find at local nurseries too. www.calflora.org is another good reference, you can search for native plants that occur in your county
Millbrae eh? Well you'll find it a bit warmer here and less windy although the last month or so have been terrible. Welcome. There are loads of various oaks around the area. Pin oaks are one type I know of.
My garden is a mix of vege/rose/perennial/NZ natives/lawn/cottage - i guess you could call it an eclectic cottage garden LOL. My favorite plants in it at the moment are a couple of striking red phormiums which do really well, a variegated lacecap hydrangea and some heirloom tomatoes which I grew from seed . I've recently branched out and planted lillies and gladiolus by the dozen. I'm at the beginning stages of converting the grass berm at the front into a drought tolerant garden but so far I've only researched salvias. The links that ecrane provided are a great place to start. If you find that the CA natives are too limited for what you are trying to achieve then natives from Aus, S.Africa & NZ are more than suited to our climate.
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