Where can I buy California native plants?

A: California native plants are becoming more readily available here in southern California.  There are at least a half dozen exclusive native plant nurseries that supply a wide variety of these plants to home gardeners and landscaping professionals.  Native plants are also becoming more common in local nurseries and many will order them for you if they do not have what you want. 

Look Below for information on native plant distributors including botanic gardens, societies, and retail and wholesale nurseries.

CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOURCES

Botanic Gardens, Foundations and Societies

California Native Plant Society (Local Chapters)
Local chapters run plant sales. 

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
1500 North College Ave, Claremont, CA 91711-3157; Ph: (909) 625-8767
Fall and spring sales (first full weekend in November and first Saturday in April, respectively), and year around sale in the California Garden Shop.

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
1212 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Ph: (805) 682-4726
Spring and fall sales, all year in the Garden Growers Nursery.

Soka University
26800 W. Mulholland Highway, Calabasas, CA 91302; Ph: (818) 878-3763
Spring and fall sales. 

Theodore Payne Foundation
10459 Tuxford Street, Sun Valley, CA 91352-2126; Ph: (818) 768-1802
Nonprofit retail California native plant nursery.

U.C. Riverside Botanic Gardens
University of California, Riverside, CA  92521; Ph: (909) 784-6962
Fall plant sale includes natives.

Commercial Wholesale and Retail Native Plant Nurseries

El Nativo Growers, Inc.
Open to the general public only through its Web site. 

Las Pilitas Nursery
8331 Nelson Way, Escondido, CA 92026; Ph: (760) 749-5930 

Matilija Nursery
8225 Waters Rd, Moorpark, CA 93021; Ph: (805) 523-8604 

Mockingbird Nursery
1670 Jackson St., Riverside, CA 92504; Ph: (951) 780-3571

Native Sons, Inc.
379 W. El Campo Road, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420; Ph: (805) 481-5996

San Marcos Growers
125 South San Marcos Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Ph: (805) 683-1561

Tree of Life
33201 Ortega Hwy, P.O. Box 635, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693; Ph: (949) 728-0685

Tarweed Nursery and Landscape
23539 Knapp Way, Chatsworth Lake, CA 91311, Ph: (818) 888-2318

Commercial Nurseries Carrying Some Native Plants

Armstrong Garden Centers
Check phone directory for local stores. 

Garrison Foothill Nursery
679 E 16th St., Upland, CA 91784; Ph: (909) 949-9878 

Greenlee Nursery
301 E. Franklin Avenue, Pomona, CA 91766; Ph: (909) 629-9045 

Green Thumb Nursery
1019 W San Marcos Blvd, San Marcos, CA 92069; Ph: (760) 744-3822

Persson's Nursery
3115 E. Sierra Madre Blvd, Pasadena, CA  91107-2037; Ph: (626) 792-6073

Roger's Gardens
2301 San Joaquin Hills Rd, Corona del Mar, California 92625; Ph: (949) 640-5800 or (800) 647-2356

San Gabriel Nursery
632 S San Gabriel Blvd, San Gabriel, CA 91776; Ph: (626) 286-0787