Sources for Native Plants in Southern California

Annual Plant Sales

California Native Plant Society, San Diego Chapter Plant Sale
The largest native plant sale in San Diego County with about 300 species of trees, shrubs, perennials, seeds, and bulbs. Horticultural information on each species is available, as well as books and posters. Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. October 13, 2007.

Back Country Land Trust
P.O.Box 1372, Alpine CA 91903, (619) 445-3904
A non-profit organization acquiring or managing four large conservation projects in San Diego's east county. A native plant sale is a fund raiser specializing in choice native plants that thrive in difficult inland conditions. The sale is held at the Alpine Native Plant Garden that the BCLT designed and installed for the community at 2120 Alpine Boulevard in Alpine. The last Saturday in October.

Quail Botanical Gardens
230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas
(760) 436-9466
Exotic and native plants, including many propagated at the Garden. Fall.

Lake Hodges Garden Club
This sale includes not only native plants but also members' and friends' donations of other bulbs, house plants, etc. It is held in front of Von's Market, Plaza Town Centre, Bernardo Center Drive, Rancho Bernardo. Watch the newspapers for details. The first weekend in November.

Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden
100 N College Ave, Claremont CA 91711-3157, (909) 625-8767; Fax: (909) 626-7670
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden is devoted to the collection, cultivation, study, and display of native California plants and to graduate training and research in plant systematics and evolution. A native plant sale is held on the first weekend of November.