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The dry garden is a place we cultivate for harvest and beauty and life outdoors without overdoing the water in our summer-dry climate. With all their beauty and versatility, palms can play an important in the dry garden.

Among the proteaceae there is a vast variety of exotic flowers, and many of these plants have a long blooming season, especially here in coastal California, where the weather mimics their native South African and Australian coastal landscapes.

Phlebodium aureum 'Blue Star' fern is one of our favorite versatile plants, growing happily in the Bay Area either indoors or out.

Grevillea are incredibly useful shrubs in the landscape. These low-maintenance shrubs offer soft, airy texture and nearly year-round blooms. Their unique flowers are hummingbird magnets!

Our growing grounds in the beautiful Rainbow Valley have been hard at work; both our stores are stocked with the widest selection of Proteas and Leucospermums that we've had all year! Learn which ones are available now, then get your favorites at Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco or Los Angeles.

Here at Flora Grubb Gardens, we like to throw around the phrase “unicorn plant” to describe some magical, unattainable plant that we all want. Lucky for us, our growing team down at Grubb & Nadler Nurseries has been working hard to cultivate a few of these rare unicorns for you—and just in time for the holidays! These exotic rarities make great gifts for your treasured loved ones.

This adorable bromeliad is a favorite for rare plant folks—and very hard to find! Slowly, over time, the plant will envelop its rock pot, forming a kind of spiky ball with its exquisite miniature rosettes.

Want the breezy, laid back vibe of a tropical paradise in your cool weather, low-water garden? Plant bromeliads! Both our stores are fully stocked with these stunners right now.

One of our favorite plants for low-water gardens, Beschorneria yuccoides 'Flamingo Glow' truly delivers on so many levels, with soft, delicate leaves, pretty variegated color, and of course that wildly exotic bloom.

Many beautiful yucca plants will thrive in coastal California, and we often have several varieties in stock—along with quite a few yucca lookalikes!—at our San Francisco and Marina del Rey nurseries. Read on to learn more about these tough and lovely plants.

Down at our farms in the Rainbow Valley, we grow over a dozen varieties of trailing succulents, perfect for hanging baskets, vertical gardens, and container gardens. All of these cuties are in stock now!

Here in the Bay Area, when the acacias start showing their fireworks of delicate golden blooms, we know that spring is just around the corner.

Our DIY Potting Bench is back! Come and make something beautiful for your home or garden.

Even in cooler weather, the bougainvilleas are popping all over town.

Haworthias, tough-as-nails miniature succulents that look like dollhouse agaves or aloes, are perfect for making jewelbox compositions in little tabletop pots.

Californians, let's get real: It's time to kiss your super-thirsty lawn goodbye. Did you catch Flora chatting about this on KQED? Or The New York Times weighing in on "How to Fall Out of Love With Your Lawn"? Everybody's talking about gorgeous ways to replace your grass with low-water landscapes.

Aeoniums, with their sweetly symmetrical rosettes, whimsical leggy growth habits, and wide variety of foliage colors and patterns, are so much fun to grow and collect. We've almost always got dozens in stock at Flora Grubb Gardens nursery in San Francisco.

The rare and mesmerizing Aloe polyphylla is finally back in stock! We have a limited supply of baby 4-inch spiral aloes. Watch this little cutie grow into a mesmerizing spiral.

Every year in the springtime we receive a special order of rare and unusual Japanese maples from Oregon, and we get so excited when the truck arrives!

Late winter is when leucadendrons are at their most stunning, showing their vibrant color and putting out shiny new growth. Flora Grubb Gardens stores in SF and LA are always stocked with a rainbow of different varieties ready to come home with you!

Succulents and cactus love life in coastal California, which makes them a great un-thirsty choice for your garden.

There are many challenges when planting a garden, including considering damage to retaining walls, sidewalks, foundations, and underground utilities. Often the easiest way to overcome these tricky spots is planting small plants that won’t have a large impact on nearby infrastructure. But what if you need a larger, more substantial element?

Parajubaea is a genus of palms with graceful crowns of swaying, silver-backed fronds and edible nuts. The two species that we grow down at Grubb & Nadler come from seasonally dry, cool mountain valleys on the western slope of the Andes in Bolivia. This is probably why they thrive in California, while struggling in other palm paradises like Hawaii and Florida.

Staghorn ferns, also called elkhorn ferns, are aptly named for their upright forked fronds which resemble antlers. These upper fronds, named fertile fronds, are elevated to release spores for reproduction. The fertile fronds often have an attractive matte white or grey dusting to them, and many have wonderful rippled textures like mushroom gills.