The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens Plant
dates: 5/17/2008 - 5/18/2008
location: 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108
description: We will be taking a large selection of our banksias, grevilleas, hakeas and other Australian & South African plants down to the sale.
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http://www.evergreen-sb.com
Winner of the 2006 Green Award, everGREEN (formally Nolan, Walmsley, & Assoc. - NWA)
specializes in sustainable landscapes. Leland Walmsley, owner and founder, is a recognized expert Landscape Architect
specializing in inspired design and sustainable solutions. He stands apart from other architects in his ability to
work with his clients, creating solutions that both meet the clients' needs but also their level of comfort.
http://www.ausbrushusa.com
Australian Brushwood is a relatively new company in Los Angles that has a great new renewable resource fencing product that is
environmentaly sound as well as being attractive, maintenance free, pest and insect resistant and has 40+ year lifespan.
It also acts as a sound and wind barrier. Contact Brian Newbury or Mike Goslin through their website at
www.ausbrushusa.com
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/brianwalters
Thank you to Brian Walters from Castlereagh Australia
who supplied our site with so many of his wonderful photos.
If you would like to see more photos by Brian you can see them at
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/brianwalters
http://www.Seaside-Gardens.com
Seaside Gardens is a retail nursery with 9 small Botanical Gardens
with plants represented from Australia, Asia, California, Mediterranean,
South Africa, South America, Tropical, and Cottage Gardens.
They also have grassland and wetlands represented. They sell many plants
from our nursery and will take special orders.
Their website address is www.Seaside-Gardens.com
Seaside Gardens
3700 Via Real Carpenteria CA 93013
805-684-6001
Worldwide Exotics
Contact: Shelly
11157 Orcas Ave
Lake View Terrace California. 91342
Telephone: (818) 890 1915
Fax:(818) 890 2776
Email: wwesej {AT} comcast {DOT} net
Sunshine Gardens
155 Quail Gardens Drive
Encinitas CA 92024
Telephone:(760) 436 3244
Bamboo Pipeline YARD (Wholesale Only)
331 Wood Road
Camarillo CA 93010
(805) 764 2600 Phone
(805) 764 2626 Fax
http://www.elnativogrowers.com
El Nativo Growers (Wholesale Only)
200 S. Peckam
Azusa CA 91702
Telephone: (626) 969 8449
Nurseries Out of State or Northern California who wish to order our plants contact:
Keeline Wilcox Nurseries
6135 North Rose Avenue
Oxnard. CA 93030
Tel: 800 922 9919
Tel: 805 988 0911
Fax: 805 485 6604
Email: kwsales {AT} rain {DOT} org
http://www.smgrowers.com/
San Marcos Growers (Wholesale Only)
125 South San Marcos Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93111
http://www.downunderontop.com/
Australian Outback plantation is wholesale nursery in Arizona
specializing in Eucalyptus & Melaleucas and other Australian shrubs.
Visit his website for a list of retail nurseries in Arizona that
supply his plants. He also ships some mail order.
http://www.californiaprotea.com/
The California Protea Association is mainly for commercial cut flower
growers. However, they also have very helpful information for enthusiasts
wanting to grow Proteas and where they can be purchased as either
plants or cut flowers.
http://www.californiaproteamgmt.com/
California Protea Management is owned by Ben Gill who offers his
experience and knowlege to growers wanting to grow Proteas on a
commercial scale.
http://www.discoverprotea.com/
Owner Eugene Brill is a commercial grower of Proteas and ships protea
(& relatives) bouquets all over the USA. He also has many other
products associated with the Protea Family including seeds, prints and
jewellery available for mail order.
http://www.floraforfauna.com.au/
An Australian website that has some great information although many of
the cultivars listed are not readily available in the US.
http://asgap.org.au/
Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants is an informative website for Australian Plants Enthusiasts.
http://www.cycadinternational.com.au/
This looks like a facinating place to visit if you are interested in
Cycads and find yourself in the Northern Territory, Australia.
http://www.nurseriesonline.com.au
This is an Australian website with listings of most nurseries in
Australia and beyond.
http://www.nativegrowth.com.au/
This site in Australia has some additional useful plant information
and photos.
Good site for mail order in Australia.
http://www.anbg.gov.au/
This is the website for the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra. ACT. Australia
http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/
The new Cranborne annex is definitely well worth a visit. It is fabulous!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_City_Botanic_Gardens
The Brisbane Botanic Gardens are historically important as the most significant, non-Aboriginal cultural landscape in Queensland
http://www.cityofcairns.qld.gov.au/services/botanic_gardens/fbg_main.htm
The Gondwana Heritage area provides a glimps at some of the living ancestors of our plant heritage.
http://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/o/
Remarkable expanses of unique bushland
http://www.australian-aridlands-botanic-garden.org/
Known for the harshness and the stark beauty of its unrelenting landscape,
Australia's arid interior is home to a myriad of unique plants and animals.
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/botanicgardens/adelaide.html
The Adelaide Botanic Garden is a historic garden on the Adelaide Plains with a dry Mediterranean climate and alkaline soils. Native and exotic plant collections are displayed including palms, cycads, bromeliads and many spectacular mature trees and shrubs.
http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/
If traveling outside of Sydney I can strongly recommend both Mount Annan, annex which is all Australian natives and Mount Tomah which has a wonderful collection of Southern Hemisphere temperate plants.
http://www.sydwildflowers.com.au/
Heathcote Southern Sydney beaches area NSW
http://www.australian-natives.com/
Marsden Park Western Sydney NSW
http://www.wariapendi.com.au/
Colo Vale NSW Southern Highlands NSW
http://www.kuranga.com.au/
Melbourne Victoria
http://www.zanthorrea.com/
Perth WA
http://www2.ucsc.edu/arboretum
University of California, Santa Cruz Arboretum has probably the largest collection of mature Australian
plants in the US. They have many rare and unusual plants from all over Australia and is well worth a
visit if you are in the area. Check out their website www2.ucsc.edu/arboretum
http://www.piercecollege.edu/offices/garden/
The new Australian Botanical Garden at Pierce College was opened in September 2007
and is open to the public 7 days a week. The conditions there are difficult,
therefore plants have been selected for their drought tolerance, hardiness
to high summer temperatures (112F), frost (17F) and their tolerance for heavy clay soils.
http://www.lonker.net/
Steve Lonker is a plant collector who grows Australian & South African
plants in Washington DC and is willing to share some of his
experiences growing these plants indoors.
http://www.slobg.org/
This is a new Botanical Garden in the SLO area of California.
http://www.arboretum.org/
The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden in Arcadia has some of the largest Xanthorrhoeas – Grass Trees – you will see in Southern California.
http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/
The San Francisco Botanical Garden has a large Mediterranean Section which includes a new upgraded Australian Garden and South African Protea collection.
http://www.leaningpinearboretum.calpoly.edu/
One of the finest Mediterranean Gardens to visit in California.
http://www.lotusland.org
Lotusland is a historical 37 acre estate in Santa Barbara
with an Australian Garden around the Visitors Center and car park. It has some beautiful
specimen Banksia seminuda and a wonderful Leptospermum laevigatum arbor.
Lotusland
By Reservation Only
Santa Barbara CA
805-969-3767
http://www.niguelbotanicalpreserve.org/
Laguna Niguel Botanical Reserve has an established Australian Garden worth visiting when next in the area.
Laguna Niguel Botanical Reserve
29751 Crown Valley Parkway, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677