Villager Nursery, Inc. is a captivating retail space that offers a relaxing and intriguing shopping experience. The nursery boasts instructive and inviting pathways through demonstration gardens, art, pottery, and an astounding display of the best plants available for the challenging local conditions. The owners and staff are passionate about plants and care deeply about the success of their coworkers, colleagues, growers, friends, and clients, willingly sharing their extensive knowledge.
The nursery continually maintains and modifies its gardens and plant selections as the gardens grow and clients' interests evolve. They collect seeds and experiment with a wide variety of locally native plants to offer and use whenever possible, always striving to learn and share their newfound knowledge.
Customers praise the staff's exceptional helpfulness and expertise, particularly the owner, Eric, who is described as a highly knowledgeable botanist with an in-depth understanding of the Truckee-Tahoe region and its microclimates. The nursery is renowned for its extensive selection of native, unusual, and hard-to-find plants that are proven to thrive in the local environment. Customers appreciate the staff's dedication to providing personalized assistance and guidance, making Villager Nursery the go-to destination for plant enthusiasts in the Truckee area.
Super place to wander ponder and create green spaces.
May 2026
The best nursery around! I love just walking around there, it’s so beautiful. But I never leave empty handed! They have unique and stunning flowers and the quality is superb. Really amazing place!
November 2025
Some of the healthiest looking plants I’ve seen in a while! After getting home, I immediately wished I had bought a few more. The two shop cats are an added bonus… they’re adorable and super friendly!
Services: Villager Nursery brings you many of the most cold-hardy and abuse tolerant plants on Earth. We contract grow many of the best plants and offer selections that are available almost nowhere else. We collect seeds and cuttings from many remote mountain locations. If a plant will thrive in Truckee's harsh climate, it will flourish anywhere else in the high Sierras.
We offer Home-Visit and Site Consultations as well as Landscaping and Planting Services. Wander our Botanical Nursery and Demonstration Gardens. Watch us grow.
The Villager offers Expert Gardening Talks, Horticultural Demonstrations, Wildflower Hikes, Historical Walks, Volunteer Opportunities and Passionate Mountain Gardening Conversation.
We are easy to find: Look for the landscaped off-ramp, the two apple trees and the building with a big "nursery" sign on it. Come by and enjoy the local expertise.
Retail Nursery
-Unique Annuals and Annual Color
-Cold Hardy Perennials, Showy Old Fashioned Perennials, Cottage Perennials
-Hardy Flowering Shrubs and Dense Screening Shrubs
-Native Wildflowers, Native Perennials, Native Shrubs, Native Trees
-Flowering Trees, Evergreen Trees and Fast Growing Trees
-Living Christmas Trees, Fresh Cut Christmas Trees
-House Plants, Indoor Potted Plants
-Indoor Plant Supplies & Indoor Gardening Supplies
-Vegetable Seed - Native Seed
-Wildflower Seed - Law Seed
-Revegetation / Restoration Seed
-Hardy Spring Bulbs - Naturalizing Bulbs
-Native Bulbs - Indoor Bulbs
