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Grow Native Nursery

California native plant nursery at California Botanic Garden. Closed for the Summer season.

10/29/2026

Production Nursery Manager, Frank Obregon, is kicking off our weekend of new and interesting plants from Baja California with the beautiful Passiflora pentaschista! Check out this interesting and colorful vine! Ideal for your backyard garden ☺️

This weekend at Grow Native Nursery, we are highlighting plants from Baja California. Stay tuned to see what other interesting plants will be available! Grow Native Nursery is open Friday - Sunday, 9am - 4pm.

10/23/2026

Thank you to everyone in the community who came out for our wonderful Fall sale despite the heat and rain! Grow Native Nursery is now ✨OPEN✨ for the season! Stop by Friday - Sunday, 9am - 4pm for your native plant shopping or to get help with your garden. We restock every week and always try to have something new and exciting for your plant collections. In addition, with the fall rains, now is the best time to plant natives!

Hope to see you at the nursery soon!

10/02/2026

Dreaming of some shady respite during this heatwave? You're not alone! We've tripled the amount of shade-tolerant native plants we carry for this year's Fall Sale! Plants like the beautiful Hummingbird Sage (Salvia spathacea), or our scrumptious native strawberries (Fragaria vesca). Add some fall color with Baja Pitcher Sage (Lepechinia hastata), or the local Claremont Pink-Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum 'Claremont').

Better yet, create your own shade by planting one of California's iconic trees, such as Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia), Western Redbud (Cercis occidentalis), Incense Cedar (Calocedrus decurrens), or Blue Elderberry (Sambucus mexicana). All these and more will be available for purchase during our opening sale, October 10th and 11th. Until then, stay safe and cool!

09/29/2026

Have a small patio or garden and want some California native plants that can handle a container or raised bed? Thankfully, there are many! Check out the Grow Native Nursery website for our recommended list of plants for containers, or follow the link in our profile.

Have you had success with natives in containers - we'd love to know which plants have worked best for you!

09/23/2026

We have been working hard to bring you up-to-date resources, plant lists, and more on our new and improved Grow Native Nursery website pages! Check them out before your visit, or anytime you want some planting guidance. Updates include a video on how to get started with native plants, as well as links to water rebates, planting FAQs, and information about supporting wildlife!

Our preliminary inventory will be posted on the updated website October 5th, before our Acorn Member Sale. It's a great way to get a head start on your shopping!

09/22/2026

We're back with another sneak peek at some of the cool California native plants our Production Nursery has been hard at work growing for this upcoming Fall Sale on October 10th & 11th!

Here, Nursery Coordinator Riley Holmes, talks about one of trees that will be available, Neltuma odorata, AKA Western Honey Mesquite! Recently renamed from Prosopis glandulosa, this small tree/large shrub grows up to 20 feet, supports significant amounts of wildlife, and has many traditional ecological uses. It works great in dry Southern California gardens, and is wonderfully showy in summer.

Keep an eye out for more behind the scenes action as we get closer to our opening date!

09/16/2026

Analisa from our wonderful Production Nursery is giving a sneak peek at her some of her favorite plants that will be available for the Fall Sale on October 10th and 11th. This year, the team has been growing not just the fan favorite Dendromecon harfordii but also the local species, Dendromecon rigida!

We can't wait to bring you these plants along with many others when we reopen! We hope you'll join us!

09/11/2026

For our final "Guess that Seed," we bring you a fan favorite! Can you guess the wildflower that produces this seed?

Hint: This cheerful white and yellow wildflower often requires a healthy fall rain (fingers crossed this might be a good year), acts as a bullseye for flying insects to locate pollen, and its species name is Greek for "wide, flat tongue."

Did you get it? Let us know! This wildflower species, along with many others will be available at our upcoming Fall Sale, October 10th & 11th. Stay tuned for the full seed list to be announced soon!

Thank you to our awesome Nursery Assistant Israel Ulloa for the beautiful illustrations.

09/09/2026

This CA Biodiversity week, make your own backyard, patio, or balcony a biodiversity haven! The foundation for attracting and supporting any wildlife starts with ensuring a good habitat. The plants you choose to put in your gardens and backyards make all the difference. Planting regionally appropriate native plants helps support the most biodiversity by providing food, habitat, safety, and breeding sites for pollinators, birds, and more.

Plant out your wildlife haven this fall by attending Grow Native Nursery's upcoming Fall Plant Sale on October 10th & 11th, 2026, where we will have hundreds of native plant species available for purchase along with expert advice, plant guides, and books such as "The California Wildlife Habitat Guide" available.

09/08/2026

We're back with part 2 of "Guess that seed!" This lovely wildflower will also be available for purchase at this year's Fall Sale on October 10th & 11th. Want a hint? It has flowers that are a true blue color, grows throughout a wide range from Alaska down to parts of Mexico, blooms later than most wildflowers, and is named in part after the Lewis & Clark expedition.

Swipe right to reveal the plant these seeds produce! Let us know in the comments if you got it right. Illustrations by our Nursery Sales Assistant, Israel Ulloa.

Address

1500 N College Avenue
Claremont, CA
91711

Telephone

+19096258767

Website

http://www.calbg.org/

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