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…