Nursery plants for sale by the container, from 6 inch pots to boxed specimens
Every plant above is sold by container size, which is the pot or box the plant is growing in rather than the plant itself. Small container stock establishes fastest and costs least. Boxed specimens are years further along and go in where a design needs presence immediately. Pick a size on any product page and it shows the current price for that exact container.
The catalog runs across agave, aloe, echeveria and other succulents, cycads, palms, bromeliads, yucca and tropical foliage. Most of it is chosen for low water use in Southern California conditions, which is why so much of it reads as architecture rather than as bedding.
Succulents, cycads and palms are not interchangeable
Succulents such as agave, aloe and echeveria want sharp drainage, full sun and very little summer water once established. Cycads are slower, prefer part shade, and hold a formal shuttlecock form that suits entries and courtyards. Palms take more water than either and are the right call for poolside and screening. Bromeliads bring colour into shade where succulents will stretch and lose their shape.
Getting this wrong is the usual cause of failure. An agave in heavy irrigated soil rots at the crown, and a bromeliad in full desert sun bleaches out. Match the plant to the exposure first, then to the look.
Planting into rock and gravel
Desert planting is normally finished with stone rather than bark. Set your boulders first so the bed has structure, plant to them, then top dress with decomposed granite or landscape rock to hold moisture and suppress weeds. Keep the top dressing just clear of each crown rather than piled against the stem.
For the tropical and foliage side of the catalog, amended soil and bark do more good than rock. Those are in bark, mulch and topsoil and garden soils and amendments.
Where to buy succulents and nursery plants near you
Anyone searching for a plant nursery near me, or for succulents near me, usually wants two answers: who actually stocks the species and size they want, and whether it can get to them. Earth Stone Rock grows and sells nursery plants in Southern California, so the stock listed here is acclimated to the heat, sun and water conditions of the region rather than shipped in from a wetter climate and left to struggle.
Wholesale plant nursery near me is the harder version of the same search, because order size changes the answer. A few container plants travel easily. A run of boxed specimens for a commercial install is a freight and access question as much as an availability one, which is why larger orders are quoted rather than carted. Tell us the species, sizes and the site and we will price it properly.
Agave, aloe and yucca plants
Agave is the workhorse of the catalog. An agave plant asks for sun, sharp drainage and almost nothing else, and the species range here runs from compact rosettes to Agave americana at full landscape scale. Agave plant care is mostly restraint: plant high, water deeply but rarely, and leave it alone.
Yucca plants and red yucca do similar work with a finer texture, holding a vertical accent where an agave would read as a mass. Aloes carry the winter flower that succulent beds otherwise lack, from low clumping forms up to tree aloes several feet across. All three are true outdoor succulents in this climate rather than patio plants brought in for the season.
Drought tolerant plants and ground cover
Succulent plants are only half of a water wise bed. Drought tolerant plants set into gravel still leave open ground between them, and that ground is what decides whether the bed looks finished or unfinished. Drought tolerant ground cover can be planted, but on most Southern California installs the space between specimens is closed with rock rather than with more planting, because it needs no water at all.
If you are choosing between the two, drought tolerant shrubs and grasses give movement and soften a hard edge, while decomposed granite and landscape rock give a clean, permanent surface. Most designs here use both.
Shop plants by growing condition
The whole nursery is filterable in the sidebar, but these are the groupings people ask for most often, each one built from the same researched attributes: full sun plants for beds that take six or more hours of direct light, shade plants for a north side or under a canopy, cold hardy plants rated for high desert winters, xeriscape plants for low water beds, plants for pots and containers, erosion control plants for slopes and hillsides, ground cover succulents, privacy and screening plants, and hummingbird plants that bloom through winter. Sun exposure, water needs, mature size and USDA zone are listed on every product page.
Project guides
Start with plants by USDA zone if you are not sure what your winter will support. Read xeriscaping with landscape rock for water wise bed layout, and landscaping with boulders for placing stone that planting is designed around. If you are working out top dressing quantities, the coverage calculator sizes rock and gravel by area and depth.
Specimen plants and larger sizes
Availability moves with the season and specimen material is not always listed online. If you need a matched set for an install, a particular size for a focal point, or something larger than what appears above, send the species, the size range and a note on site access and we will quote what is currently available. Request a quote.
