“Such a great nursery. We purchased a polkadot bagonia (that's thriving), a bonsai, and more on our first trip.
Great selection of indoor/outdoor, sizes, succulents, supplies and beyond.
They even have mini shopping carts for kids
10/10, highly recommend”
“Local nursery that offers carefully curated flowers, plants, trees that you may not find at big retailers. What makes Ladera Garden & Gifts stand out is the knowledgeable staff who are friendly and always ready to offer help and advice if needed.
I’ve bought various plants, trees, and soil from here. So far, with proper care, they have provided beautiful colors to our front and back landscape. The prices here are also incredibly reasonable and fair.”
“One of my very most favorite nurseries and gift shops. I come here every year right around my birthday plus any other day that I can get there they’re just have the best selection of plants and you look like you’re just in a world of beauty.”
“Regina did an amazing job with florals for our wedding. She worked with us to incorporate some flowers that my mom grew into the arrangements. We appreciated her flexibility and could not have asked for more beautiful arrangements for our wedding!”
“Golden Nursery has been a huge help for our group of volunteers as we add fruit trees and flowering shrubs at our local public elementary school! Thank you to Chris and the whole crew for giving thoughtful advice and support as we selected trees and prepared for our project. They helped pick trees that will fruit in the late spring and early summer, or over the fall and winter while kids are in session - so important for the hands on experience we want kids to have. We’ve gotten lots of advice on water friendly, often native plants that will be beautiful while also bringing more pollinators to our campus. Golden has a great variety of fun plants, including passionfruit, that we’re looking forward to planting next. Such an awesome local business that our community is looking forward to supporting.”
“Lyngso is 100% the best of the best. I’ve been around the construction and landscaping business off and on my whole life and I have never come across a place as special this.
Everyone who works here is endlessly knowledgeable and gracious to their customers. Their range of products and materials is 2nd to none.
Their fertilizers they carry are the best of their type on the market and the gardening tools they sell are really special. It’s also one of the very few landscaping supply places, including nurseries, that not only hasn’t been bought out by private equity, when the owner was ready to retire, they sold it to their employees.
My only complaint (and I tell them this all the time) is that they don’t have a location in the South Bay, where our landscaping business is headquartered. This makes deliveries down to the South Bay very expensive.
Most of our clients are happy to pay the higher delivery cost for the products that no one else has, but I’m sad that the extra delivery cost isn’t worth it for stuff they happen to sell (but still necessary, like drain rock) that I can buy from a more local place.
In other words, we would just prefer to give them all our money!!”
“My wife and I were married at the San Mateo Arboretum in June of 2019, it just occurred to me I should post a review! We were very happy with the venue, we had the wedding out in the garden with about 52 people. We used the Pump House to stage things, and had the buffet tables outside. We were able to bring in a catering truck with a pizza oven, and the caterer provided the servers to stage the food and serve the drinks. Our contact helped us with the logistics and was there for the event, when there was an issue with another event in the park blocking the access she quickly worked it out with them and got the path cleared. There are some limitations to work with: no real kitchen for cooking, no dishwashing, and the interior would be cramped for 45 people, so hope for clear weather and bring a mobile caterer. Don't expect to play really loud music or have a big dance party on the grass. But for a small low-key wedding the garden is fantastic, and makes a wonderful backdrop. The price is very affordable, and we were able to book it with 4 months notice, so it was a very good option for us... Highly recommended if it fits your needs!”
10:30AM - 6PM
184 Plaza S, Los Altos
Nurseries And Gardening
“Love this spot. Merlot was taking new clients and I am lucky to have found her! In addition to the service I just love the experience of the salon -- warm, welcoming, professional, calming and supportive. I love my visits”
“Can't believe the deals and quality in this place and the service is top notch. The water fountains are stocked by the dozens with statues and benches and bird baths too. You gotta check this place out!”
“I needed to figure out how to get a bunch of roly-polies for my kid’s biology class. And I sort of randomly walked into Green Fashion Nursery, and it turned out to be such a great stop!
A young guy was watering the plants, and after hearing what I was looking for, he was super nice and let me search for roly-polies under the pots. I quickly found more than enough. Later, I also met the owner, and she was super friendly too.
Really nice people and such a pleasant experience. Definitely a 5-star visit!”
“They have an excellent variety of plants to choose from. The staff are very helpful and friendly. It feels welcoming and the people are knowledgeable of how to best care for your plants.”
“The consummate spot for all Stihl, Husky and keeps the tree men with an A Game.
Steve and his beloved wife, Pinroi truly cherish their customers, and are lovely human beings who know you are human, too.
Happy New Year to Yardbirds' Livelihood.
I never buy anything for our tree business, unless, it comes first, through Yardbirds.”
“- Virtual event: Rosewood Medicinal Native Garden, a talk by Radhika Thekkath - This talk will feature an in-depth visit to the Rosewood Medicinal Native Garden, one of the gardens on the 2021 Going Native Garden Tour. Come on a tour to a suburban garden stocked with native plants valued for their medicinal value. The Rosewood Palo Alto garden is about 12 years old, converted from non-native grass to native plant areas. The garden features a pond with waterfall and bathing area for birds and wildlife, a native pollinator meadow, edible fruits, and a compost area. The tour will be followed by a question and answer session with the garden owner. This talk is part of the 2021 Going Native Garden Tour, which started in April, and is providing virtual tours throughout the year. Register for the tour at www.gngt.org to receive updates on upcoming tour activities. Radhika Thekkath is a retired computer scientist who has been gardening with native plants and has been an active member of our Chapter for over ten years. She recently returned to California after a three year stay in Washington state. Her more recent work includes active forestry management and stewardship as well as sustainable building with cob and straw bale. She is currently completing an in-depth course in permaculture design. This talk will be live streamed on YouTube ( Good sources on native medicinal plants and their uses:”
7:30AM - 3:30PM
2718 Alpine Rd, Portola Valley
Nurseries And Gardening
“The Orchids I received were absolutely more than I expected. They were shipped with a lot of care. I will be ordering more! Purchased another one and again beautiful and healthy.”
“Beautiful plant shop!! Super affordable and gorgeous plants run by a very kind man who knows so much and will help you. Bought some for my Stanford dorm and they lived longer than any plants I got from Home Depot. Support local businesses and get affordable beautiful plants, tons and tons of options”
“They have a huge paver selection. Got turf here as well. The crew was great and seemed to be having fun with their work. No reason to go here if you are not doing a big project.”
“I had an exceptional experience at this Home Depot, thanks to Randy. He was incredibly helpful and took the time to listen to my needs attentively. Randy's knowledge and willingness to assist made my shopping experience smooth and pleasant. It's not often that you come across such dedicated and friendly staff. Thank you, Randy, for your help today!!”
“as someone who needs to go to home depot super often seeing someone like dencell who loves what they do and gives it there 100% makes the shopping process 100x easier for me as lumber usually is a mess but not at this home depot!! THANK U DENCELL”
“Everyone’s probably been here 100 times and 95% of the time it’s usually fine. However this particular visit required extensive planning, design revising, and attention to detail ordering several custom windows. Soé in the window department went above and beyond spending several hours with us making sure everything was correct and even postponing his lunch & break to accommodate. It’s hard to find service like this nowadays and because of this I’ll come back just for him.”
“What a large variety of products to look at and compare in store, not just online! Two employees helped me find unusual items and walked me to the right aisle and bay, very pleasant. Checkout was straightforward. Highly recommend.”
“Don’t understand why the ratings are so low. I dealt with Jube (sorry if I got name wrong) and set up a scenario for him over phone. Long story short, we moved and wouldn’t be able to deliver same day but he stated so long as we are there next day by 7am(730am cutoff), we’d be squared away.
Answered all my questions and took time to answer back despite closing hours (7:57pm call in).
Appreciate the team here.”
“Still family run and the best producing garden plants. They only put things out when it’s time to plant and take better care of their plants than any other nurseries we go to on the peninsula.”