Bear Valley Nursery & Landscaping

Excellent nursery and garden supply — with treats for the outdoor garden as well as indoor/​houseplants and all the plant food, garden statuary, pots, wind chimes, stepping stones, and seashore nature gifts. I don’t have a very good record with houseplants — except African Violets, but decided to go out on the coastal limb and see if I have better luck here.
The shop’s owner gave me lots of tips and helped narrow my choices to do-​able projects without making me feel like a purple-​thumbed idiot… Which was both kind and really good business.
I easily found a house plant with training wheels, a lovely pot for it to go nicely in my living room, and of course, the requisite Miracle Grow Plant Food.
And several ideas for future experiments…
Especially cute: sea bird sculptures for you deck/​patio; great succulents in all sizes and shapes; a great rusted-​bicicle planter with «baskets» on the handlebars, and rear bumper for lots of greenery — which would look great leaning against a garden fence… and a fall-​back plan: some really lovely African Violets. Just in case.
But best of all, having a local nursery to ask about what plants grow in the ultra salty air in the last mile before the Pacific Ocean (and all it’s winds and moisture…) is part of the absolutely necessary shopping for a move to this area!