Resources
Newsletter
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Links
CNGF Discount Affiliates: Your favorite nurseries and stores where your membership card earns you a 10% discount!
Other Links We Like
Non-profit Resources
California Native Plant Exchange
California Native Plant Society
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
The Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants
Saratoga Horticultural Foundation
Strybing Arboretum & Botanical Gardens
U.C. Botanical Garden at Berkeley
Bee Links
The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign has put online the first of their series of ecoregional guides (using Bailey's Ecoregions) on plants for pollinators. Enter your zip code to see your area's plant document.
Guide to the Bombus of San Francisco
Exclusively Native Plant Nurseries
Central Coast Wilds, Santa Cruz
East Bay Wilds, Oakland
Las Pilitas Nursery, Escondido and Santa Margarita
Middlebrook Gardens, San Jose
Native Revival Nursery, Aptos
The Watershed Nursery, Richmond
Yerba Buena Nursery, Woodside
Fire-wise Gardening
There are lots of scary wildfires around our lovely state. Here are some sources of information related to fires and plants.
A fire marshal's PDF list of high fuel plants that should be removed. If you are in a high fire danger area, fire agencies will often send an inspector at your request to help determine plants and trees that pose a threat to structures.
Start a FireWise Community in your neighborhood.