One of Flora's favorite things is to help dear friends with their gardens, and this glorious front garden is close to her heart. It's the home of Oakland artist Terri Loewenthal, and together they've built a wild and vibrant collection of plants that shelters Terri's house and welcomes visitors.
Did you see our amazing wholesale growing operation, Grubb & Nadler, in Sunset Magazine’s new February/March issue? We’re so honored to be featured in this gorgeous spread!
For your plant-obsessed beloved, here's the most romantic gift: A rare and exquisite 'String of Hearts' plant (Ceropegia woodii). Its heart-shaped leaves are strung together on delicate vines, like a tangle of precious necklaces.
Here at Flora Grubb Gardens, we like to throw around the phrase “unicorn plant” to describe some magical, unattainable plant that we all want. Lucky for us, our growing team down at Grubb & Nadler Nurseries has been working hard to cultivate a few of these rare unicorns for you—and just in time for the holidays! These exotic rarities make great gifts for your treasured loved ones.
If you’ve spent any time here at Flora Grubb Gardens, you’ve most likely experienced the warmth, plant genius, and general fabulousness of our beloved Clarke de Mornay. Now take a peek into Clarke’s own gorgeously detailed and eclectic home garden, a paradise for plant collectors!
A dreamy tropical vacation may not be in the cards right now, but there's no shortage of reasons to get away from it all. We're feeling all the lush jungle feels down here at FGG. So many plants that love our Bay Area climate also have a distinctly tropical look.
This week we wanted to share with you some of our team's favorite climate-appropriate, low-water plants. We grow them all ourselves! Maybe you can find a spot for one of them in your garden.
Here at FGG we've always believed that outdoor time is crucial to health and wellness. Now during these pandemic months, gardens are truly becoming extensions of our homes: the sanctuary, the dining room, the playground, the workspace.
Behind a door on an alley South of Market in San Francisco, at the end of a narrow passageway, our own merchandising magician Jim Kumiega cultivates a secret green enclave in a tiny courtyard.
Urban gardening often involves working with narrow, confined spaces and odd-shaped borders. Here’s a bit of small garden inspiration for you as you look to plan garden beds in challenging tight-squeeze spots.
Lots of us here in the Bay are working with limited outdoor space, but even the tiniest square of air can become a garden, like this lovely little SF stoop.
Ceroxylon quindiuense, the rare Andean wax palm, grows happily here in San Francisco, where the cool humidity (fog!) mimics the climate of the Colombian cloud forest. We have this palm in stock now!
Autumn is grevillea bloom time! We love these plants for their exotic, shimmery flowers that attract bees and birds over a long blooming season. Among low-water plants, grevilleas can't be beat for their big bright flowers.
We all know San Francisco has lots of fabulous quirks, and the climate is one of the weirdest. For visitors and newcomers, our weather can be a puzzle, but for plant nerds (like all of us here at Flora Grubb Gardens), this particular puzzle is what makes San Francisco a gardening paradise.
In this secluded oasis designed by the fabulous Daniel Nolan, contrasting textures play off each other to beautiful effect, soft and sculptural shapes working in harmony to create a lush, artful design.
Spring is here (at last!) and we know you're dying to get into your garden, so how about indulging our latest plant obsession: The magical, multi-talented ALOE. Here are eight reasons you should be obsessed with aloes, too.
One of our favorite gardens from designer Daniel Nolan is also one of the most simple. Nolan used bold forms and contrasting colors, leaving ample negative space for each plant to shine.
Thigmotrope Satellite and Perch are vehicles for cultivating plants in otherwise hard-to-reach places. Thigmotrope Satellite is simple to install and makes caring for tillandsia air plants equally easy. It screws directly into a mounting surface such as painted drywall or a wood plaque. Thigmotrope Perch is a simple display to show off your tillandsia air plant on a table, shelf, or other horizontal surface.
