Las Pilitas Nursery

Plants for your habitat since 1979.

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We are a family business selling California native plants since 1979!

We will be open most Saturdays through May 2025. View our hours to learn more.

We also ship plants via UPS or allow scheduled pickups. Read about online ordering to learn more.

Browse our shop to find live plants, seed packets and more.

Reopening plant display for spring 2024 - grid24_12

Reopening seed and mug display for spring 2024 - grid24_12

A close up of the berries of Prunus virginiana demissa at the nursery. - grid24_12

Live plants for sale: Penstemon, Diplacus, Trichostema, Ceanothus and more! - grid24_12

Native plants by scientific name:
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Native plants by common name:
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Native plants by cultivar:
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Buy Native Plants online!

We make the plants available online when the root balls fill in enough to hold together in shipment.
We ship Tuesday and Wednesdays. UPS takes the plants to your door in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Fransisco and most of California the day after we ship.

Interstate Stock Certificate: (C6925)

USDA-APHIS SOD Certificate: (40 C6925_001).

Certified Epiphyas postvittana free, Ca-4oqlbamc6925001

You're not just a number to us.

Ship native plants? Yeap! Order by Friday at 4pm and get them Wednesday in Los Angeles or San Francisco. (Unless it's really wet, UPS hates dripping boxes.)
How to order? Go to the individual plant page and look for the "add to cart". As long as "add to cart"is there you can order our native plants. If the 'add to cart" is not there, we do not have any plants ready yet.

Salvia `Celestial Blue` growing in gallon containers at the nursery in late July, 2016. - grid24_12

We work to make native plants grow for you. Our plants love to go to Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego or Sacramento. They think it's spring!

Ghostly and Harmony manzanita growing in gallon containers during Summer 2016. Photobomb courtesy of Apple tree. - grid24_12

Ghostly and Harmony manzanita growing in gallon containers during Summer 2016 for Fall 2016. Photobomb courtesy of Apple tree.

A short moo-vie of some of the native plants that are native to California. The image is Carpenteria californica.

When to plant? It is OK to plant native plants all year, for summer and fall plantings just treat the new planting to regular watering during the summer and fall months for the first year.
Winter planting is easier, spring planting is fun!
What are you waiting for? Here are more pages about Native garden how to and design

Band Tailed Pigeons in flight over the nursery. Native plants equal native birds. - grid24_12

Customers fly in from all over the world to visit our Santa Margarita Nursery. We ship native plants to most of the West and all of California from here.

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Bert's Raspberry flavor of Diplacus puniceus - grid24_12

The Nursery Las Pilitas Collection

A list of the cultivated variates (cultivars) or wild selections of California native plants selected by Bert Wilson and Las Pilitas Nursery and introduced into cultivation over the past 38 years.