Fall Extravaganza & Garden Art Fundraiser 2018

The Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour is once again coordinating a Native Plant Extravaganza, which will take place on Saturday, October 20, 2018 from 10:00–4:00. A portion of the proceeds from this sale go to support the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour.

This full-day shopping opportunity will offer native plant fans a good selection of native plants at the best time of year to plant them. The Extravaganza provides the opportunity to purchase unique or hard-to-find native plants that are not normally available in most nurseries. Knowledgeable staff will be on hand to help shoppers select the best plants for their gardens.

For information on how to successfully plant natives, please see Yerba Buena Nursery’s excellent Transplant Guide.

Plants will be available for sale at the following nurseries on Saturday, October 20, 2018 from 10:00–4:00

• Oakland – East Bay Wilds is located at 2777 Foothill Blvd., Oakland; note that the entrance is on 28th Ave. Owner Pete Veilleux grows more than four hundred kinds of proven natives that are particularly beautiful, reliable, and hard to find. Some of these are extremely difficult to propagate and therefore hard to find elsewhere, and Pete maintains a waiting list for these plants.  He also carries a wide selection of plants that he has experimented with and found useful for specific landscape problem areas, such as plants to grow between pavers, or fast ground covers that can outpace weeds.  Some of the plants East Bay Wilds regularly carries are hummingbird sage, hound’s tongue, wooly mule’s ears, Island bush poppy, wooly blue curls, rare and beautiful ferns, flannelbush, a fast-growing strain of western redbud, Sagehen strawberry, Barrie Coate flowering currants, fragrant golden currant, leafy reedgrass, burr marigold, purple three-awn, Marion Sampson hummingbird mint, Sonoma sage, Pickeringias (chapparal pea), Everett’s choice California fuchsia, prostrate coastal sage, many, many kinds of manzanitas, buckwheats, California lilac, penstemons, hybrid monkeyflowers, sedges, and a wide selection of sages. See the plant list here:/ View Flicker photos here.
• Richmond – Annie’s Annuals, 740 Market Ave. Richmond, (510) 215-3301.  Did you know that Annie’s grows, sells, and ships more than 275 different varieties of California native plants?   Use the directions below; Internet mapping sites, such as Mapquest and Google Maps will give you wrong directions! Take I-80 east toward Sacramento. Exit at San Pablo Dam Rd. (two exits past San Pablo Ave.) and make a left at the light. Turn right onto San Pablo Ave. Turn left at Church Lane, which becomes Market Ave. Go approx. 1.5 miles (through 2 lights — 23rd St. and Rumrill) and over 2 railroad tracks. “Annie’s” is on the left a few feet past the second set of tracks, where you will see the sign and large green fence. You will not see an address.
• Richmond –The Watershed Nursery, 601 A Canal Blvd. Richmond, (510) 234-2222 Offering hundreds of species of California native plants; located in Point Richmond.  The Watershed Nursery is a local business specializing in growing native Californian plants, and is dedicated to improving habitat from your backyard to the Bay. You can see the list of available plants here.
• San Leandro– Green Thumb Works, 16276 E. 14th Street @ 163rd Avenue, San Leandro,at the Dig Deep Farms greenhouse on the Pacific Apparel lot. phone or text (510) 502-0992.  Save water, lower maintenance, invite birds, butterflies, and beneficial insects to your garden, support local ecology, and reflect the natural splendor for which California is known by gardening with California native plants.