the art of planting in the rain

Last week my husband planted 49 plants in the rain.  Many were delicate little things -- a single leaf, a cloud of tiny transparent leaves clinging to a drooping stem.  Las Pilitas Nursery in Santa Margarita sends these healthy, humble babies to serious native plant gardeners, who trust that care and rain will rehome a native plant, and set it to thriving.

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Las Pilitas ships 1 gal plants in plastic bags

The Plants
​4 Lepechinia calycina, “Pitcher Sage”
5 Peritoma arborea, “Bladderpod”
18 Muhlenbergia rigens, “Deergrass”
3 Salvia ‘Celestial Blue’, “Celestial Blue Sage”
9 Baccharis pilularis consanguinea,“Coyote Brush”
2 Salvia clevelandii, “Cleveland Sage”
2 Penstemon centranthifolius, “Scarlet Bugler”
5 Penstemon spectabilis, “Showy Penstemon”

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