BLUE STAR FERN
PHLEBODIUM AUREUM
BLUE LEAFED FERN - CAN BE USED AS GROUND COVER

This species of blue, crawling fern is native to regions of the southeastern U.S., down through Mexico and Central American and into the Caribbean and South America.  It gets to heights of about two to three feet and is rhizomatous in nature.  It can slowly spread along the ground but is easy to control.  Leaf color is definitely a blue or blue-green color.  It can be used as a ground cover as shown below.  It likes filtered light and is cold hardy into the twenties F.  In coastal areas it tolerates full sun or part sun far inland.

Regular Price 5 gallon $85
Sale Price 5 gallon $65

BRAZILIAN RED CLOAK
MEGASKEPASMA ERYTHROCHLAMYS
AMAZING PROMINENTLY RED LARGE SHRUB


The Brazilian Red Cloak is super rare and hard to find.  This is probably because most propagation is by cuttings only.  And, you have to have a mother plant to do this.  We obtained two mother plants about ten years ago and have established them here in Encinitas.  We began propagating about a year ago.  This is considered a "bush" but can reach heights of eight feet or more.  It blooms red when the weather is more cool - November to April.  The mother plants are in blossom right now!  The terminal leaves turn red and hide the small white blossoms within (thus the "cloak" in the name).  The red colored photo is of our mother plants.  These can be mail ordered but you have to be in at least a 9A environment to grow it.  Cold tolerance is down to about a freeze.  We only have a few for sale.

Regular price 1.5 gallon $85
Sale Price 1.5 gallon $65

CANNA LILY
LOOK GREAT IN SUMMER, BAD IN WINTER

BUT COME BACK EVERY SPRING - SUMMER BLOOMER
ASSORTED VARIETIES

Canna Lilies are a tropical or semi-tropical perennial plant.  They are not a true Lily but called a Lily.  They are probably most closely related to Gingers.  I've found the foliage is a bit less appealing in winter.  Then, in summer when it's warm, they do their thing with rapid growth of pretty foliage as shown here and a prolonged display of colorful blossoms.  They can take our coastal sun or part sun.  I have several types/varieties available.  I'm showing three varieties below.  All have stunning blossoms in summer.  The Tropicana is known for its colorful leaves.  Blossom colors on Canna vary from red to pink to apricot to yellow and more.  Be aware that a Canna purchased now in winter will not look its best until growth resumes in spring.  We restock on these in spring.

Regular price 5 gallon Cannas $65
Sale price this size $45

CRINUM AMABILE - PURPLE LEAF
LARGE CRINUM TYPE LILY - AKA "QUEEN EMMA LILY"
OVERHEAD PURPLE-GREEN LEAVES
EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO FIND

This Lily is native to all sorts of locations throughout the world including southern Asia, Australia, and Africa.  It is known for it's spiraling display of long, heavy substance leaves that are upright and four to six feet long.  Their color is green and dark purple.  Flowers are white with purple centers and markings.  It grows like other Lilies by making offset tubers that make new plants.   Expect a mature height of six to seven feet, definitely overhead.  As mentioned, they clump and form a great display of foliage.  They will not "run" or take over an area.  In recent times these have been near impossible to find.  But, we have a limited number of smaller 15 gallon that we’re putting on sale.  We only have a handful of them and they'll be gone soon.  I’m also showing a garden specimen and photos of the blossoms below.

Regular price 15 gallon $245
Sale price this size $195

DASYLIRION LONGISSIMUM
THE MEXICAN GRASS PLANT 
MEDIUM SIZED UNUSUAL SUN PLANT
DROUGHT TOLERANT – LOVES FULL SUN

This interesting drought tolerant plant is native to Mexico and extremely drought tolerant.  In gardens, I’ve seen a few older plants with a few feet of trunk.  But, this species can actually get a trunk that is six or eight feet tall in fifty or a hundred years.  And, trunks can split into multiple heads. It loves hot sun.  The crown of needle like leaves is about eight feet across.  Each leaf is about the size of a knitting needle and four to six feet long.  They come to a point but are not very dangerous except perhaps to one’s eye.  The plant looks like a “Pom Pom on a Trunk”.  Leaf color is blue to blue green.  Cold tolerance is into the teens F.  They like hot sun.  Note that often we have 15 gallon available but currently only have 5 gallon plants - so that's what I'm showing below.

Regular price 5 gallon $85
Sale price 5 gallon $65

DRACENA DRACO
THE DRAGON TREE
TREE FORMING SUCCULENT

This species of Dracena actually makes a rather large tree.  It has thick silver leaves.  It is native to the Canary Islands.  It has the peculiar habit that, after a lengthy time, any given branch stops growing and then bifurcates or trifurcates, giving a very branched pattern. The trunk can get quite thick.  It has fragrant white blossoms.  Eventually it forms a medium sized tree.  It likes full sun and is cold hardy only into the mid-twenties F.  This tree wants full sun and does get rather large. 

Regular price 1 gallon $40
Sale price 1 gallon $30

Regular price large 5 gallon $125
Sale price this large 5 gallon $95

Regular price huge 25 gallon $650
Sale price this size $535
 

ENSETE VENTICOSUM "MAURELII"
THE RED BANANA

LARGE SINGLE TRUNK RED TROPICAL PLANT

EPIDENDRON ORCHID
PINK – PURPLE BLOSSOM
REEDSTEM TYPE TERRESTRIAL ORCHID
HARD TO FIND PINK-PURPLE COLOR

The family of Epidendron Orchids are loaded with species/varieties of lots of different colors.  These include pink, purple, orange, red, white and yellow.  But, one of the most vibrant is the pink-purple as shown here.  It is also an easy variety to grow.  We're putting blossoming one gallon purple-pink on sale.  These plants will have tons of reed-like stems, most of which will blossom this summer.  Leaves are thick and small and plants can be divided in the future to easily add to other areas of the garden.  They'll take coastal full sun or strong filtered light.  Some sun is needed for flowering.  You can plant these right in the soil.  They are cold tolerant into the mid-twenties F.  BTW, this color is difficult to find.  You’ll love them in your garden or in a pot.  Limited supply.

Regular price one gallon in blossom $75
Sale price this size in blossom $60

Regular price five gallon $135
Sale price 5 gallon $95

FARFUGIUM JAPONICUM SHISHI BATON
DWARF RUFFLED TYPE OF LIGULARIA
12 TO 18 IN INCHES TALL - RUFFLED LEAVES

This hybrid Ligularia has small, super ruffled leaves.  We've offered ruffled Ligularia before, but this is the first time we've had this hybrid.  It doesn't get that tall, under two feet for sure.  It will take partial sun along the coast or strong filtered light.  It enjoys adequate water and should be quite easy to grow.  We've sold a lot of regular Ligularia over the years and almost everyone is having good luck with them.  This hybrid should perform about the same.  I have no garden photos to show you.

Regular price one gallon $45
Sale price one gallon $35

FUCREA QUICHEENSIS
A RARE AND STUNNING BLUE FUCREA
MEDIUM HEIGHT MATURE
THIN BLUE STRAP-LIKE SOFT LEAVES

This extremely rare and difficult to find variety of Fucrea is native to southwest Guatemala and southern Mexico on the Pacific side.  Plants have thin trunks with a mature heights of six to nine feet with beautiful heads of super blue strap-like blue leaves.  The leaves are a rosette and this crown is six feet or more wide.  Trunks have been known to fork when mature.  Unlike other Fucrea that produce bubils, this species sets seeds.  This is a full sun species and is cold hardy (by estimate) into the mid to upper 20's F.  Mail order would be simple. Garden/wild photos below by Agaveville website and TS at RPS.

Regular price 4 inch pot $60
Sale price this size $47.50

FURCRAEA MACDOUGALII
THE TREE FURCREA
INTERESTING MEDIUM SIZED, SUN LOVING TREE
BLUE GREEN FOLIAGE – WATER CONSERVING

This species is a stunning member of the Agave family.  It is known as the tallest Agave and is native only to a small area Oaxaca, Mexico.  There it lives in hot, dry scrubland.  Overall height in the wild gets to twenty feet, although plants in cultivation often flower at a height of about ten feet.  Leaves are blue-green in color, very fleshy and stiff, and pointed upwards.  They are also thick and firm with small spines along their margins.  When old dead leaves are cleaned from the trunk, it is very cool looking.  When this species flowers, a huge upright flower up to twenty feet emerges.  Initially there are white flowers and these are followed by a large number of "bubils" that fall to the ground and are the means of propagation.  The mother plant then dies.  Cold tolerance from reports is about 22 degrees F.  It is a full sun plant.  The 15g plants on sale are ten years old and, if anything, bigger than shown here.  Garden photo by Garden World Images website.

Regular price 15 gallon $225
Sale price this size $170

This low profile companion fern can take part day sun or filtered light.  It isn't very tall, perhaps up to 14 inches.  It slow expands over the ground.  The leaves are simple without divisions.  The name "Tongue Fern" refers to its resemblance to the tongue of a type of deer.  This type of fern is native to European counties and the U.S.  It is simple to grow and cold tolerant into the low 20's F.  These plants on special are very large for their pots.  They are about 18 inches wide.

MUSA ZEBRINA
A NON-FRUITING BANANA
MAKES A PRETTIER ORNAMENTAL SPECIMEN
DEFINITE RED COLOR TO LEAVES


The plants I'm showing here don't make fruit but are very pretty.  Mature height should be about 8 feet.  Like most Bananas, it does sucker and the fruiting stalk is replaced by a new stalk.  It has green leaves with attractive purple splotches and maroon underside.  See photos below.  It'd want full sun and should be cold tolerant well into the mid-twenties F.  We only have smaller sizes available currently.  BTW, they are near impossible to find.  I have no mature photos to show you but am showing a larger plant we previously had at the Nursery. 

Regular price one gallon $45
Sale price this size $35

Regular price 15g $195
Sale price 15g $165

PANDANUS FURCATUS
VERY COLD HARDY SPECIES OF PANDANUS
EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND SCREW

Pandanus are a Monocot with about 750 species worldwide.  Many species are native to Madagascar.  They are similar to palm trees but are not true palms.  Many species produce prominent roots from the trunk to help support the tree.  Pandanus furcatus is known to be quite cold hardy as it is native to northern India and Nepal (as well of nearby other areas).  All Pandanus come from the Old World.  P. furcatus can get quite tall, even over 40 feet in many decades.  Leaves have spiny margins.  It can tolerate a freeze.  Be aware that most species do not tolerate a freeze but this one and P. utilis do.  The only other species of Pandanus we grow is P. utilus.  Both are extremely difficult to find for sale.  We recently obtained some smaller furcatus plants from a private grower.  This is the first time we have had them for over a decade. 

Sale price band size this rare Pandanus $45

PANDANUS UTILUS
THE SCREW PINE
 ONE OF THE FEW PANDANUS GOOD FOR THIS AREA

Pandanus utilus is called the Screw Pine but is not a pine at all.  It's actually a monocot (similar to palms) and native to Madagascar, the Mauritius Islands and some surrounding areas.  It gets it's name by the arrangement of leaves which come off the trunk in spiraling fashion, always the same direction.  Thus, the leaves spin off at different angles in a swirl.  Leaves are rather thin and have spines along the margins.  The trunk on this species is quite amazing.  It forms aerial roots (sausage like) that come to the ground for stability.  Trunks fork and form multiple heads of leaves.  Trunks can also be quite smooth, almost snakeskin-like.  It has large fruit clusters that are bigger than grenades.  But, it is a dioecious species and you need a male and female plant to set viable seeds.  Leaf color is green with a sheen of blue.  Overall height is variable, but old specimens can easily be over thirty feet tall with lots of branches.  It takes sun or part sun.  Cold tolerance is probably in the mid-twenties F.  We are offering only a few 5g as shown that we have in stock.  This is an extremely rare species to find for sale. 

Regular price 15 gallon $250
Sale price 15 gallon $210 - Sorry but sold out this size

PHILODENDRON EVANSII
SUPER RARE AND HARD TO FIND SPECIES WITH HUGE LEAVES
TOLERATES COASTAL SUN AND IS VERY IMPRESSIVE

This unusual and very difficult to find species of Philodendron is known for it's absolute huge leaves that can be six feet of more in length.  It has green leaves and thick strong stems.  It can grow free standing or will climb to some extent.  Or, trunks can crawl along the ground.  It tolerates full coastal sun or strong filtered light.  We've been told that this species can tolerate a freeze although little is known of its absolute cold tolerance.  Its leaves are much large than Philodendron selloum.  Supply is limited as we only have them available every several years. 

Regular price 15 gallon $350
Sale price 15 gallon $255

PHILODENDRON SELLOUM
VERY LARGE SPLIT LEAF PHILODENDRON
ALONG THE COAST FOR SUN OR SHADE

This is an interesting type of Philodendron for those of you who like big leafed, climbing species.  It's been available for many decades, but more recently is hard to find.  It can develop three foot leaves with a stem that is 4 to 5 inches thick.  It likes to climb and will go slowly up a trunked palm tree.  In my garden, I have several that have ten foot long trunks.  They show interesting old leaf base scars and have lots of aerial roots.  As mentioned, this is a climbing species.  If you plant them where there’s nothing to hang onto they will do fine but produce a shorter, fat trunk for support.  They take coastal full or part day sun.  Far inland areas should give it a few hours of sun or strong filtered light.  They can be grown as a houseplant.  Their cold hardiness is down to at least the mid to low 20’s F.  The plant shown below was grown in full sun so it's more of a lime green.  In shade they are more of a dark green.  Very limited supply currently.

THE TRAVELER PALM
RAVENALA MADAGASCARENSIS
BANANA-LIKE TREE IN ONE PLANE
IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LATELY

Most people are fascinated by this large, banana-like plant that has wide, long and soft leaves that tower overhead.  It is native to Madagascar.  The fact the leaves of the Traveler Palm are all aligned in one plane fascinates viewers. But I must first mention that this species is not a palm at all!  Rather, it is part of the Bird of Paradise family.  It got its common name of "Traveler Palm" (aka Traveller Palm) because the leaf bases would catch and hold water for thirsty travelers.  Compared to the Giant Bird of Paradise, it's so much nicer.  It's less maintenance, is not invasive and prettier.  But, the downside is that Ravenala madagascarensis doesn't survive a freeze.  Literally, a freeze will kill it overnight.  This is the first time I’ve had any Traveler Palms available for two years.  I’ve had hundreds of calls by people looking for them and there just aren’t any of any size available.   At the time of publishing this we only have a couple left.

Regular price 5 gallon $135
Sale price 5 gallon $110

Regular price 5 gallon $200
Sale price 15 gallon $165

VRIESEA AND VRIESEA HYBRIDS
A RARE TYPE OF BROMELIAD WITH OUTRAGEOUS BLOSSOMS
FROM COLLECTION LATE JOHN ARDEN

  From the late renowned Bromeliad enthusiast John Arden
  Plants were typically overgrown in pots - needing division of clumps
  We have about thirty different hybrids in this collection
  Collection plants trimmed, pups separated, repotted in new growing soil
  Care taken to identify all plants where possible
  Original plant tags kept with mother plants where possible
  Some inter-generic hybrids shown
  Most plants were not in blossom when acquired
  About 100 to 150 of this collection available for sale
  On some, only one available
  Any from this collection can be mail ordered
  Any given plant may have sold by the time you see this
  We can only give identification according to labels that were inside plant pots on acquisition
  No guarantee given on accuracy of labels
  We ourselves are not Bromeliad experts nor hybridizers

YUCCA BRIGHT STAR
TRICOLOR, SUN TOLERANT, WATER CONSERBING
DWARF COLOR FOR THE GARDEN
FIRST TIME OFFERED

This is a new hybrid succulent that has green, pink and yellow colors.  Leaves are strap-like with pointed ends.  Mature height is several feet with a spread of about four feet.  Because of this they are considered a dwarf succulent.  It slowly developes a stout short trunk but never gets very tall.  They like full hot sun and can tolerated a freeze.  They also require average succulent type watering.  We have a limited supply of this hybrid.  I've been told this is a difficult plant to find - and they were expensive for us to acquire from the source grower.

Special sale price squat 10 gallon $155

YUCCA DESMENTIANA BLUE BOY
PURPLE-BLUE COLOR
ANOTHER COLORFUL DWARF SUCCULENT
MATURE HEIGHT FOUR TO FIVE FEET - WILL SUCKER