Matilija Nursery

We're beginning to get a few pacific coast irises going into bloom but in a little over a month it really starts. Here are a few of the new first blooms from last year. Many of these are still at the nursery and many more new ones will open up for the first time this spring....for your garden....These are not small flowers and at 4" to 5" across for your shade garden.

One of our creations...we do have a few of these in 3Gallon pots. Not named yet but if you ask for 'Ocean Blue' x 'Untitled' 417 I'll know what you mean. 'Ocean Blue' and 'Untitled' are the parents. A really exceptional one for my favorite customers/friends.

Shots from around the nursery world and things for your garden....

Here are some of our more wild/species like pacific coast irises for your garden. While we have all of them in big 3 gallon post we also have some 4" pots too. For your shade garden - plant them now.

some shots from around the nursery world and things for your garden....spring is coming...

Some of our desert mallows...always in bloom in the full sun and excellent bee food.

Some yellow flowering douglas iris. The yellow stands out in your shade garden.

Another new early bloomer same parents as the rest....'Canyon Banner' x 'San Ardo'.

White sage - Salvia apiana at the Huntington Botanical in Pasadena a "pre-covid".

Potting some of these up and a few in 3Gallon pots to go. This is somewhat of a species looking pacific coast iris only bigger flowers and taller.

Living garden art....we'll have a few of these in 3 gallon pots by March? Nothing like this anywhere else. Gotta go directly to the grower!

Another pacific coast iris early bloomer. This is one our hybrids. Both parents are early bloomers and so some of the children are "really" early bloomer.

Time to start thinking about warm season planting, flowers, and wild things for your garden. This is red buckwheat from the Channel Islands. These flower early summer then again in fall.....

Matilija Nursery....Movie NIght...it's the time of year. We have large stands of these poppies and bee boxes on the property and the bees love the matilija poppies.

Shots from around the nursery world and things for your garden....

Starting to work on the transition from spring to summer planting and summer flowers....These asters flower from the end of May until early winter. Just they way they are and what they do.

Busy day at the nursery - we're beginning to transition to the more summery flowering natives but still a little more pacific coast iris eye candy - they keep flowering.

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Some shots from around the nursery world and things for your garden....

We now have about 125 Iris douglasiana in 1-gallon containers ready for your garden. These are not hybrids but one of our native species. Here's a shot of them in the nursery and another shot from under a fence at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Easy to grow- neglect is better than care and just about no summer water (1x/month).

Everything looks great in spring but what about the rest of the year? Our iris have rich green color in the off-season and beautiful flowering in spring. These are douglas iris, which can vary a lot in nature.

A landscape of some of our pacific coast irises- more the wild species look. Pretty nice - for your shady spots.

Hummingbirds really like the red tube flowers. This one (and we have several) is feeding from the California fuchsia. Native to our hillsides they flower in summer though early winter.

Some of the Ceanothus flower in spring and again in fall....

One of our pacific coast irises from the "mixed" category from a couple of years ago. We'll have plenty of these (a few now in 3Gpots) and plenty for mail order in about 8 weeks.

Finished potting up the new hybrids to the bigger 3-gallon pots...waiting for late winter/very early spring.....this year should just be so much better than last year.

California fuchsia are still in bloom ...into early winter.

We are now growing Coreopsis gigantea or giant coreopsis. You'd see these in flower toward the end of winter along the coast from Topanga Cyn up to Oxnard and the Channel Islands. We haven't grown these in years but here they are and they are very cool. You can Google them up to see the pictures.

Time to plant matilija poppies for their beauty, fragrance, and "entertainment". Just outstanding bee plants - very entertaining

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