August 2026 Plant Availability Moth Madness August 2026 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , We’ve got a special guest coming to the nursery on August 8th–Saumitra Kelkar, perhaps better known as @oakland.bio on Instagram. Saumitra’s an educator, naturalist, and advocate for California’s native…
July 2026 Plant Availability Gardening with Wildlife–Gophers? Deer? Have no fear! July 2026 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , In any garden, there will be the inevitable nuisance. Around the nursery, we’ve used screening cages to keep birds from stealing acorns, mesh to…
June 2026 Plant Availability Native Hedges, a.k.a screens that we don’t mind watching! June 2026 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , Happy summer! The days are longer, the birds are chirping, and with that surprise late May rain, the plants are looking spiffy–check…
May 2026 Plant Availability Let’s get local! May 2026 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , Spring is well and truly here! We hope your garden is flourishing following the last few rains we’ve had. Check out the springtime glory in our nursery gardens…
April 2026 Plant Availability April showers bring… April 2026 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , There’s much buzzing around the nursery this spring! Spring fever is upon us in the garden–bees are all over our Hollyleaf Cherry, Purple Sage, and California poppies. Keep…
March 2026 Plant Availability Annual Wildflowers aplenty! March 2026 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , Ah, spring. The time when a gardener’s heart and mind is captivated by the splendor of annual wildflowers. Such a lovely distraction from all the weeding, aren’t they?…
February 2026 Plant Availability Geophytes & Valentines February 2026 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , Well folks, we’ve made it through the darkest days of winter, and like our annual lupines (Arroyo Lupine, or Lupinus succulentus to the right), we are turning towards…
Grass Blast! January 2026 Availability January 2026 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , With a New Year comes time for new perspectives, and we’d like to use this month’s newsletter to encourage our readers to see native grasses & grasslike species anew. Many…
Endemic Species December 2025 Availability December 2025 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , In this season of gratitude, I have been reflecting on the resilience of nature. I see this tenacity embodied by pockets of habitat and wildlands persisting here in the Bay…
It’s Planting Season! November 2025 Availability November 2025 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , Ah, the joys of fall! Shorter days, foggier mornings, fall colors, and of course, planting season! We are simply abuzz with activity around the nursery these days: the local…
Spooky Species October 2025 Availability October 2025 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , Well, we’re past the fall equinox, and the weather seems to be taking the hint that planting season is coming. We hope you’ve been enjoying the “refreshing sprinkles” as much…
September 2025 Plant Availability Coop-aversary Staff Picks & We’re Hiring! September 2025 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , How the time flies–we became an employee-owned cooperative exactly a year ago today! We wanted to take this opportunity to share some of the behind…
August 2025 Plant Availability Cheers to planting native! August 2025 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings , We’re fast approaching the dog days of summer around the nursery, anticipating the days where we don’t have these generous misty foggy mornings to keep temperatures mild….
July 2025 Plant Availability Caterpillar Season & Larval Host Plants July 2025 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings Watershed, It’s summer! Around the nursery, the Northern Mockingbirds are teaching their young their musical repertoire (car alarm, train horn, phone ringtone, dove call), late season…
June 2025 Plant Availability Keystone Species June 2025 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings Watershed, Happy June! As we enter the longest days of the year, we here at the nursery are celebrating all that makes our gardens feel a-buzz this time of year….
May 2025 Plant Availability Native Clovers Galore! May 2025 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings Watershed, May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and with all that’s going on in the world, we’re definitely feeling well aware. Good news, though–gardening, being in nature, and the…
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March 2025 Plant Availability It’s time for spring annuals! March 2025 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings Watershed, Spring, spring, spring–at long last, it’s annual wildflower season! We’ve got quite a hefty palette of gorgeous spring wildflowers on our shelves for sale, from familiar…
February 2025 Plant Availability We <3 California Native Plants! February 2025 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings Watershed, Prepare yourselves, this one’s a little cheesy! We love California Native plants, and hope you do too! As we were planning this month’s newsletter topic, our…
January 2025 Plant Availability Sowing Seeds for the New Year! January 2025 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings Watershed, Happy New Year! We hope you’re doing well as we make our way into 2025. This time of year around the nursery, we’re nuts about…
December 2024 Plant Availability Making Wreaths with Native Plants & other Holiday Gift Ideas! December 2024 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings Watershed, We hope y’all are all warm and well! Around the Nursery, we’re testing the waterproof claims of last year’s rain gear…
November 2024 Plant Availability Planting in Community: Habitats & companion plantings November 2024 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings Watershed, Happy fall, y’all! We hope you’re spending time with friends and loved ones as the foggy mornings roll in and planting weather comes around. In…
October 2024 Plant Availability Staff plant picks in honor of our newly formed cooperative! October 2024 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings Watershed, In case you missed it, we became an employee-owned cooperative last month! This month we wanted to take the opportunity to…
September 2024 Plant Availability Stimulate Your Senses with a California Native Sensory Garden! September 2024 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings Watershed, It’s back to school time, which we know can be a hectic change of pace for parents and kiddos alike, so this…
August 2024 Plant Availability Cultivating Fire-Smart Landscapes with California Native Plants August 2024 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, We hope you have been enjoying the cool foggy mornings and sweet sunshine-filled afternoons of summer so far. As we’re in the midst of California’s…
July 2024 Plant Availability Summer of Sonication: A Buzz Pollination Bash! July 2024 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website ‘Currant’ inventory spreadsheet format Greetings, We hope your summer solstice was ‘a buzz’ with beauty and light, as ours was here at the nursery. It’s been truly remarkable to see such diversity of…
June 2024 Plant Availability LGBTQ+ Pride Outside with a Rainbow Garden! June 2024 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, Warmer days have arrived at last here in Richmond, and with blooms abound throughout the nursery we are poppin’ with pollinators and a vibrant array…
May 2024 Plant Availability Monarchs, Milkweed, and the first ever Bay Area Butterfly Festival! May 2024 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, Happy May! With our hundreds of milkweed babies in production and the bounty of blooms throughout the nursery this spring we have…
April 2024 Plant Availability Creating a bird friendly garden April 2024 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Pssst… Ever wonder about the habitat restoration projects that our contract-grown plants are being used for? Read to the bottom of this newsletter for our first ever newsletter…
March 2024 Plant Availability Annuals Abound! March 2024 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, With the first day spring around the corner, it’s time for annual wildflowers! We have some exciting new species to offer this year along with the classic fan favorites 🙂…
We’ve got love on the brain with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, so this month we are sharing some of the many species of California native plants with showy red, pink, and white flowers that begin to bloom this time of year for the perfect home-grown bouquet for your valentine 😉 Plus, you can “feed two birds with one hand” with these species because they provide abundant nectar at a critical time for the hummingbirds!
January 2024 Plant Availability A Tribute to Laura Hanson, Principal and Co-Founder of the Watershed Nursery January 2024 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, It is with the deepest sadness that we let you know our dear colleague and friend, Laura, passed away last…
December 2023 Plant Availability Deciduous in December December 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, We hope you all are having a happy holiday season so far, and that the little bit of rain we’ve gotten has inspired and energized you for prime planting…
November 2023 Plant Availability Ohlone ethnobotanical uses of California native plants November 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, We hope you have been enjoying the cooler fall temperatures, the changing colors, and the sprinkling of leaves and rain that we’ve gotten over…
October 2023 Plant Availability Planting, Pruning, and Preserving habitat value this fall October 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, Happy belated Autumn Equinox! We’ve been noticing the signs of this seasonal shift more and more the past few days, with the sun…
September 2023 Plant Availability Swallowtail Soirée September 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, If you follow us on instagram or facebook then you may know that it has been a prosperous summer for Swallowtail caterpillars and butterflies here at the nursery. Swallowtails are…
August 2023 Plant Availability California Coastal Crawlers August 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, It’s hard to believe we’ve already made it to the dog days of summer! There’s nothing like the sunshine, mild temperatures, and bounty of beaches that make us especially…
July 2023 Plant Availability California Native Grasses July 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, We hope you had a lovely summer solstice and have been able to kick off summer with some leisure! Around the nursery, July tends to feel like the calm…
June 2023 Plant Availability California native bees and the plants that support them! June 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, Happy June! This month the 19th – 25th is National Pollinator Week, which is an annual celebration in support of pollinator health. It’s…
May 2023 Plant Availability May flowers from all those April showers! May 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, After a wet and windy start to spring this year, we hope you all have been enjoying the longer, warmer days we’ve had the last…
April 2023 Plant Availability Arbor Day & important CA native trees for a changing climate April 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, Happy spring! National Arbor Day is April 28th this year, so for this month’s inventory newsletter we’re digging into the history…
March 2023 Plant Availability The Wonder of Wildflowers March 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, We hope you have been staying warm and dry these last few weeks. With the heavy rainfall we’ve been experiencing throughout this fall and winter, 2023 might be…
February 2023 Plant Availability Early Bird Gets the Worm – Spring Cleaning Sale!!! February 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, Happy February! We hope you’ve made it through this stormy start to the new year and are enjoying the California sunshine a little…
January 2023 Plant Availability Medicinal uses of California native plants for a healthy start to the new year! January 2023 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format California native plant medicine for a healthy start to the new year Greetings, Happy New Year!!! We are so…
December 2022 Plant Availability Evergreen species to liven up your garden in winter December 2022 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website View our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Evergreen California native plants to liven up your winter garden, plus some gift ideas and a discount on gift certificates! Greetings, Happy Holidays! It’s…
November 2022 Plant Availability Native American Heritage Month & the Ethnobotany of California Native Plants November 2022 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website Visit our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, November is Native American Heritage month and we are pausing to create space to honor the indigenous folks of California– especially…
October 2022 Plant Availability Fall garden preparation with California native plants October 2022 Plant Availability View our ‘currant’ inventory on our website Visit our ‘currant’ inventory in spreadsheet format Greetings, Although it’s still quite warm across the East Bay, we are finally starting to get a taste of beginning-of-fall weather! Now that the autumn equinox…