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Yerba Buena Nursery is a retail plant nursery selling over 600 varieties of plants native to California. We host a 2 acre Demonstration Garden
and a Garden Shop; our 1905 Farmhouse is host to Farmhouse Teas on selected dates throughout the year.
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Next Event:
Father's Day Tea
Saturday June 14th
12PM
Reservations Required
Join us in our beautiful 1905 Victorian Farmhouse at 12 noon for a traditional Tea Service which includes sandwiches, scones, pastry and hot tea.
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YBN Plant Combination:
Colorful Yellow and Blue Summer Border
Clockwise From Top Left:
Penstemon 'Margarita BOP',
Mimulus Hybrid,
Artemisia pycnocephala 'David's Choice.'
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Full Sun. Dry to Moderate H20.
Mimulus (Monkeyflower) - 3'h x 3'w
Penstemon 'Margarita BOP' (Penstemon) - 2'h x 3'w
Artemisia pycno. 'David's Choice' (Sandhill Sage) - 1'h x 2'w
The vibrant blooms of the Hybrid Monkeyflowers, usually orange to red, and the deep blue of this Penstemon are stunning in combination. Sandhill Sage provides a silvery groundcover year round.
Trim back finished blooms to encourage another flush of blossoms in late summer.
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News: Pacific Giant Salamander sighting!
(Pacific Giant Salamander, sighted 5/11/07 at YBN)
The Pacific Giant Salamander is in decline due to logging
and industrialization.
(Pacific Giant Salamander, sighted 5/11/07 at YBN)
Ruler next to the salamander shows that it is 12 inches in length.
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The Pacific Giant Salamander "prefers unlogged or well-established second growth douglas fir and broadleaf maple forests on slopes. It uses the damp mosses, downed logs and other debris near cold streams and mountain lakes to hide under by day. It is mostly nocturnal but may be out on a damp day in spring. <...> Experts think that the population of Pacific Giant Salamanders is in decline due to development and industry on their habitat." (Ref. naturepark.com)
Found just outside the nursery entrance near our natural spring stream, this Pacific Giant Salamander reminds us of why we never use pesticides or other toxic chemicals anywhere in the nursery vicinity.
For me, the author and initial observer of this event, it is a peak moment to observe this animal in its full size -- as a child studying with a naturalist from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, I recall vividly the story of the Pacific Giant Salamander, which we searched for in streams, and wondering if I would ever see this mythical beast in its mammoth (for an amphibian) adult size. Now I finally have :)
Interesting fact -- Pacific Giant Salamanders are one of the few animals that eat Banana Slugs.
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Yerba Buena Nursery Named: "World's Most Beautiful Native Plant Nursery"
A June 2005 article in the California Native Plant Society, Sacramento Valley Chapter/Stockton Sub-chapter
newsletter (author Bob Stahmer) named Yerba Buena Nursery "The World's Most Beautiful Native Plant
Nursery...". Come visit and see what inspired this writer.
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Gift Certificates:
Gift Certificates can be purchased either in person or over the phone.
If purchased over the phone, we will mail the gift certificate to the address
you indicate.
Our resident cats:
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And our latest addition,
 Charlie,
with dedicated attention,
has now become friends with our nursery cats!
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We apologize, but our nursery dog, Charlie, is the ONLY DOG ALLOWED at Yerba Buena Nursery.
Our pets roam the grounds as if they own the place (because they do). We can't risk visits by pets who are strangers, and there is no guarantee of shady parking, so please leave yours at home where they are cool and comfortable. Thank you!
Please note: Yerba Buena Nursery is a retail nursery for walk-in customers.
We are not a mail order business and we do not ship our plants.
NO responses will be sent to any emails received at this address.
To talk to someone at the nursery, call (650) 851-1668.
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