We are recognized as San Francisco's premier source for California native plants. Our selections yield not only beauty, but the power of belonging to a larger community. We carry many local native plants perfectly suited to Bay Area gardens and landscapes, plus a wide variety of choice native species from across the state.

We take special pride in our extensive oak, manzanita, and trillium collections.
Note our selection of interesting and unusual pot sizes.

Please register before shopping and be sure to browse our full plant list.
Our growing grounds West of Twin Peaks are not open to the public.

Contact

Administrative offices:
375 Alabama St. Suite 440, San Francisco, CA 94110
(at the corner of 17th St. in the Mission District)
Loading dock for receiving and will call: 375 Florida St. (back side of same building)

tel: (415) 287-6755 fax: (415) 285-2240 email: info at baynatives dot com

Geoffrey Coffey
Geoff runs Madroño, a landscape design studio in San Francisco. He writes about local native plants, landscape design, and other subjects, and has appeared as a native plant pundit on public television and the CBS evening news.

Paul Furman
Paul is a photographer and naturalist who has practiced landscape architecture specializing in steep slopes and native plants in San Francisco since 1988.

The Bay Natives growing grounds occupy historic terraces in San Francisco, and we acquire select species from a large and growing list of sources.

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Our internship program offers weekly opportunities for students to learn the nursery trade first-hand. Interested parties, please send email to interns@baynatives.com.

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Take a look at this page for links to native plant resources.

Here's a short plain text Inventory Summary in comma delimited format, useful for pasting to excel.

Lower lath house.


Lath house.


Lath house and middle terraces.


Middle terraces.


Upper terrace.

Note: our wild-collected native plant varieties are gathered in small quantities (usually from seed or a few cuttings where the species is abundant), then grown into stock plants for production. Ecological responsibility is our top priority and goal. Propagating a variety of local genotypes underlies our philosophy of locally appropriate planting. For example, our Triteleia stock was salvaged from a construction site in San Francisco just ahead of the bulldozers. If you know of any remnant populations like this, please let us know -- we are interested.