A Visit to Yerba Buena Nursery
After our Los Trancos hike, we visited Yerba Buena Nursery, just off Skyline Boulevard in Woodside. The friendly fellow above is Charlie, who presides over nursery operations, greets guests, and hobnobs with the resident cats.
The nursery sells a remarkable collection of California native plants, like this yellow flowered fremontia,
this ribes sanguineum “Claremont”, a wild currant,
this ceanothus,
and this native western hawthorne (crataegus douglasii), still harboring last fall’s colors.
The nursery has expanded its inventory since we last visited, and appears to be doing well with the new trend toward xeriscapes and natural gardens.
Yes, I succumbed to temptation - we came home with a white St. Catherine’s lace buckwheat, a matilija poppy, a native Dutchman’s pipe, wild ginger, and a white thalictrum - always room for one more fabulous plant!
