Reny's Favorite Links - Continued
Nurseries, North Bay & Other Bay Areas:
The following are great nurseries if you are in the North Bay Area (CA), but they do NOT sell mail order.
- California Flora Nursery, Fulton (Santa Rosa), CA natives and more.
- North Coast Native Nursery, Petaluma
- Anderson Valley Nursery, Boonville (707)895.3853
- Native Sons Wholesale Nursery with Mediterranean and CA native plants.
- Yerba Buena Nursery in San Francisco Bay Area
- CNPS list of California and north coast native plant nurseries.
- Calflora provides information on wild CA plants for conservation, education, and appreciation. Membership required, but currently no fee. My favorite online research tool.
- Cal-IPC, California Invasive Plant Council for info on weeds.
- Marin/Sonoma Weed Management Area weed info for this area of northern CA.
- eNature.com Online Field Guide is a searchable database identifying more than 4,000 plant and animal species of North America. Info comes from the Audubon Field Guides.
- Botanical words meanings and derivations as well as photos of blooming plants of Southern CA.
- California Wildflower Hotsheet Reports by photographers of wildflower sightings.
- Growing Native, interesting tidbits about CA native plants.
- Flora photos of the cismontane Santa Ana Mountains of southern CA.
- Montana Plant Life with info on whether plants are edible, medicinal, etc.
- Louise Hallberg Butterfly Gardens is a wonderful Sonoma County resource for information about butterflies and habitat gardening.
- Dragonflies and more with lots of info on identifying dragonflies and making a pond to attract them.
