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We hope your end of year celebrations are many, and abundant!
Let’s all celebrate our incredible hard work adding interesting and supportive plants to the Bay Area, and beyond! It’s getting to be the end of my second year at the helm of the Good Ship Oaktown! What a fantastic community we have! I feel so lucky, and so blessed…Goddess be thanked I am going to be closed the 25th-27th of December! Back open Satur-day the 28th! As always, let me know (via email) if you have any pressing business during that time, as I am at the behest of our store cat, and feed her daily.
The rains are here! If you have a tough spot that you’d like to plant but the ground was too hard, after this round of storms you may be able to get that done! Don’t forget: explore any new sites, especially in urban areas, for what kind of soil you’re dealing with. Parking strips in particular often hide old, buried concrete, big lumps of builder’s fill, and other gardening nightmares…make sure you have good (at least 18″) planting depth and don’t hesitate to amend a little in these poor urban soils.
We are well stocked with California shrubs that love to be planted now, to set their roots down in the Winter rains, and bloom in your gardens late Winter/early Spring. We have a good amount of Ceanothus in stock: C. cuneatus prostratus is effective in holding slopes, so is Baccharis (Coyote Brush).
We are also carrying a good selection of Salvias; we have a great crop of Cercocarpos betuloides, Mountain Mahogany; Coffeeberries, and Rhus aromatica, a very interesting bird-friendly, berry-bearing shrub, nice on a slope. Come see us soon for the tools to put together an affordable California Native Garden!
We are committed to bringing you the best quality plants for your garden or restoration project! We also can offer in-store consults if you bring in some photos. See you soon!