Our purpose, as always, is to remain the primary source for honest and reliable high-Sierra gardening information while offering the widest and most interesting variety of native, extreme climate, fascinating, showy and cold hardy plants, as well as the appropriate organic fertilizers and finest soil amendments available. Our hope is only to give our clients everything they need to succeed and find satisfaction in their mountain planters, gardens and landscapes. September in Truckee. The days are rapidly getting shorter now as we barrel headlong toward the autumnal equinox and the fall planting season.

Villager Nursery has deep and broad knowledge and experience relevant to High Sierra natives and adapted plants, soils, fertilizers, irrigation, gardening techniques, and much more. We are a retail nursery providing small-landscape and restorations in Truckee and the throughout the Northern Sierras. As avid botanists, naturalists and gardeners with degrees in the biological and horticultural sciences, we specialize in education, native ecosystems, extreme cold-hardy plants, unique and interesting "color", as well as durable arts and gifts.

The widest selection of hardy and native plants for the High Sierra, by far. Owners are botanists and plant lovers and everyone at Villager is passionate about helping customers find the right plants for their gardens. They've been at it since the '70's and have a LOT of practical experience atop their educations. Our brand new site is just being taken live. Some functionality is still being applied. Kellogg Planting Days are 10-2 May 31 and June 1 max 3 pots <18. Edible / Veggie Gardening Class 10:30-12 Sunday, June 2.

Villager Nursery offers Expert Gardening Talks, Horticultural Demonstrations, Wildflower Hikes, Historical Walks, Volunteer Opportunities and Passionate Mountain Gardening Conversation. We currently advise and consult on a wide variety of botanical, horticultural, arboricultural, agricultural, environmental restoration and revegetation issues for individual, businesses, subdivisions, institutions and agencies. We provide construction supervision and maintain a landscape division that serves clients from Kirkwood to Sierra City.

I truly love the Villager Nursery! They have an incredibly helpful and kind staff paired with hardy, yet beautiful plants, that do so well in the Sierras! I love to wander through the nursery and appreciate so much how knowledgeable and patient everyone is. I highly recommend you visiting!

This is by far my favorite nursery! They are my go-to place for sierra natives - knowledgeable, friendly and are eager to share their ideas and expertise! Oh, and their two cats are awesome, too! :

This is a great place to shop for flowers and trees! The staff our knowledgeable and a big help since the area is so diverse when it comes to zones and what will or will not survive in the mountains. Glad to have you in our neighborhood.

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'Tis the Season. Sap is rising and syrup is boiling... I love maple syrup as my alternative local sugar substitute and I use maple syrup to sweeten my morning coffee. In the 19th Century, Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that when we buy sugar we keep plantation owners prosperous, but when we use maple...

Posted on Mar 09, 2021  •  Facebook

Thank you Jessie for telling it like it is! We know that strong and healthy bodies come in all shapes and sizes. Jessie Diggins writes about a topic that is still very prevalent in the ski world, while also sharing some race day action and a glimpse behind the scenes at the Falun and Ulricehamn WCs:...

Posted on Mar 09, 2021  •  Facebook

Natural, organic, sugar from trees. It is our sun’s energy stored in carbon molecules, that we can use to power our bodies. Amazing. It takes a lot of trees and a lot of time to make a little syrup.

Posted on Feb 28, 2021  •  Facebook

A thoughtful young man. Jason W. was picking up some of the detritus from the I-80 garbage people today and didn’t know where he could take it (I was thinking: the town offices?). We were discussing this morning that, really, we should just let it all accumulate so the town engineering & planning...

Posted on Feb 15, 2021  •  Facebook

Tried to escape the masses of besiegers by heading north a bit. Not much luck but stopped for a quick snowshoe through brushy country looking for views and Washoe pines. I advise avoiding the bumps... we’d sink neck-deep into a manzanita. It’s still pretty loose snow out there. (we were very happy...

Posted on Feb 01, 2021  •  Facebook

When we didn’t think we’d be open last March, I finally started attempting, with effort, aprender a hablar Español. Many of Tahoe and Truckee’s most skilled and experienced landscape company owners, technicians and workers are native Spanish speakers... (and Marcelino has been pushing me for > 25...

Posted on Jan 30, 2021  •  Facebook

As annoying as those “blue corvids” can be, they are so striking against fresh snow. #stellarsjay #truckeebirds… https://t.co/AVKMYpz8Ou

Posted on Jan 28, 2021  •  Twitter

Just posted a photo @ Villager Nursery https://t.co/4xlaOrkHxX

Posted on Jan 12, 2021  •  Twitter

Show us your paperwhites! #papewhites #truckeegarden #wintercolors #villagernursery has ample quantities of bulbs.… https://t.co/BcV7TGJ9dP

Posted on Dec 03, 2020  •  Twitter

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