Sloat Garden Center

🌱🍎 Free Webinar this weekend: Fruit Tree Pruning, Sat., Jan. 13th, 10am

We welcome back pruning expert Elizabeth Ruiz as she shares tips on how to prune fruit trees. Effective pruning is critical for preparing trees for a successful growing and fruiting season. We hope you’ll sign up for this informative and popular webinar.

Register for this free Zoom webinar
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sLgvUhCHSmCb2YgrCBLV5w

Today is our last Succulent Pot-Up Bar. Please join us: Sunday, Jan. 7th, 1-3pm.

Drop by & Create your own Succulent Planter 🌵

Our expert staff will help guide your planting process and offer tips to create a gorgeous succulent arrangement. Our pot-up bars have tools, soil, gravel, and moss on hand. Plants and pots are sold separately. Note: Available at all stores except our Pierce St. SF + E. Blithedale (Mill Valley) locations.

⭐️ You're Invited ⭐️

This weekend we're kicking off our winter gardening events with the first Pot-Up Bar of the year!

Drop by & Create your own Succulent Planter 🌵
Our expert staff will help guide your planting process and offer tips to create a gorgeous succulent arrangement. Our pot-up bars have tools, soil, gravel, and moss on hand. Plants and pots are sold separately. Note: Available at all stores except our Pierce St. SF + E. Blithedale (Mill Valley) locations.

• Saturday, Jan. 6th, 1-3pm
• Sunday, Jan. 7th, 1-3pm

See you in the stores!!

Happy New Year and happy January! Whether you're just starting out or a seasoned pro, we have advice for all your gardening projects; from planting to w**ding to feeding plants indoors and out.

January to-do list ☀☀

🌿 Plant deciduous flowering cherries and plums, dormant fruit trees and Japanese maples. Look for deciduous vines as well, such as Akebia and Boston Ivy.
🌿 Dormant roses have arrived in our stores. Learn how to plant and care for them. Plant roses with E.B. Stone Sure Start and Greenall Rose Grow Planting Mix.
🌿 Top dress roses and tender plants with Sloat Forest Mulch Plus.
🌿 If it has rained, continue to dormant spray. Dormant sprays help prevent peach leaf curl, fungal rot, and other diseases. We recommend Monterey Liqui-Cop or Bonide Copper Fungicide for disease and Bonide All Seasons Oil for insects. They can be mixed and sprayed at the same time!
🌿 Protect your plants from slugs and snails with Sluggo or Sluggo Plus.
🌿 Protect citrus from rodents with Bonide Repels All.
🌿 Don’t forget to water houseplants, especially if the heater has been on. Outdoor plants that are not exposed to rain should be checked too.
🌿 Deadhead cyclamen to keep them in bloom.
🌿 Protect plants and tender succulents from cold with a frost blanket such as N-Sulate and use an anti-transpirant spray such as Wiltpruf. Water prior to spraying.
🌿 Clean up the garden: Prune roses, shrubs, and trees. Prune and cut back perennials & ornamental grasses. Need a little guidance? Contact us!
🌿 After pruning, be sure to clean your tools.
🌿 Stop the w**ds! W**ds that begin with winter rains go to seed in March & April. But the clever gardener never lets them get that far. Pull w**ds now before they go to seed. Apply Safer W**d Prevention Plus or Bonide Maize Ready-to-spray made from natural corn gluten to prevent w**d germination.
🌿 Now is the time to remove plants that aren’t thriving to make room for healthier plants. Sad, but true!
🌿 Feed the birds: We have suet in 6 flavors to attract a variety of birds from woodpeckers to phoebes. Finch Socks with Nyjer are easy to use and popular with birds! Our seed blends have no added fillers

Stop by this Weekend for our first in-store pot up bar of the year! 🌵

In-Store Pot Up Bar: Create your Own Succulent Planter
Our expert staff will help guide your planting process and offer tips to create a gorgeous succulent arrangement. Our pot-up bars have tools, soil, gravel, and moss on hand. Plants and pots are sold separately. Note: pot up bars not available at our Pierce St SF or Mill Valley/E. Blithedale locations.

🌵 Saturday, Jan. 6th, 1-3pm
🌵 Sunday, Jan. 7th, 1-3pm

Expand your gardening knowledge in-person or virtually! Join us for a new batch of gardening events in 2024. In addition to our Zoom webinars, we're excited to offer in person gardening Q&A’s and Pop-Up Planting Bars taught by our skilled professionals and local gardening experts.

See the topics and learn more! 🌿

https://sloatgardens.com/whats-happening/webinars/

A new year offers the promise of new plant and garden adventures, indoors and out. In 2024 we wish you healthy soil, vibrant plants, ample rain, and plenty of sunshine. It's been a delight to help you grow over the last year. Thank you for choosing to garden with us! ☀️🌺🌵🥕🍅🌿

Thank you for growing and sustaining Bay Area gardens and landscapes over the last year!

Gardens nourish local wildlife, help build soil, provide fresh food, and bring people together. We look forward to creating even more gardening adventures with you in 2024. Happy New Year!! 🌿🌹🌵🌼🍅🥕

** All Sloat locations will be closed New Year's Day.

We source our locally grown houseplants from many growers -- one absolute favorite is Sunborne Nursery, owned and operated by Dan & Candice, along with their son Eli. In business since 1975, they grow indoor plants and succulents and are working on expanding by building another greenhouse for additional propagating and growing. Our buyers at Sloat Garden Center often visit to hand pick plants for their stores.

About Sunborne 🌿🌿

Sunborne Nursery started not as a nursery, but as a chicken ranch in the mid 1970’s. One day a delivery driver suggested they convert the 50,000 square feet of vacant chicken houses on Dan’s family chicken ranch into greenhouses. It sounded like a reasonable idea, except Dan and his family knew nothing about growing plants.

As a start, Dan enrolled in the Horticulture Department at San Luis Obispo and took some courses with Dr. Noble. During one of the class trips to Gallup and Stribling Orchids of Santa Barbara, Dan had a chance meeting with the president of the foliage division. Not knowing any better, Dan told him about the vacant chicken houses and asked him what opportunities he saw for starting a nursery. He said there was a shortage of tropical foliage propagation material and suggested that Dan go into producing rooted cuttings. He went on to offer stock plants. Dan jumped at the offer and Sunborne Nursery was born.

Since a majority of the cuttings and finished stock plants were initially sold in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dan and Candice decided to move the nursery to San Francisco in 1989. In 1991, the business evolved from a growing operation to the wholesale distribution company that it is today. While Dan is primarily responsible for sales and purchasing, Eli manages the day to day operations, and Candice, whose background is in art, plays an important part in the aesthetics and design of Sunborne. Together, they have found their calling in the beauty and environmentally enriching qualities of the tropical plant world.

Just Arrived at Sloat: 2024 Roses 🌹 Plant them this month and begin the new year with the promise of beautiful, blooming roses in spring. We've brought in a range of new roses, plus some old favorites, that will bring fragrance and floriferous abundance to your garden this summer. We only purchase California grown roses (which results in a healthier plant and smaller carbon footprint). Stop in and see the selection!

Learn to plant roses:https://sloatgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/planting-roses.pdf

Announcing our Winter 2024 Webinars & in-store events! 🌿

Expand your gardening knowledge in-person or virtually... Join us for a new batch of gardening events in 2024. In addition to our Zoom webinars, we're excited to offer in person Q&A’s and Pop-Up Planting Bars taught by our skilled professionals and local gardening experts.

https://sloatgardens.com/whats-happening/webinars/

Merry Christmas! We wish you a happy + peaceful holiday. ✨

✨🌲 Holiday Hours at Sloat Garden Center 🌲✨

December 24th: open!
December 25th: all locations closed
December 26th - 31st: open!
January 1st: all locations closed

Last-minute gift shoppers!! We have ideas 🎁🎁🎁

🌟 Plants (especially CA natives)
🌟 African violets & accessories
🌟 Tillandsia & cute pot
🌟 Coffee plant & winter mug
🌟 Gardening books!
🌟 2024 Roses
🌟 And more!

We welcome a new season today, the shortest day of the year. Happy winter solstice! 🌟✨🌙

Dear Garden Guru,

I have very abundant Oxalis in my garden beds. Our neighbors have been spraying w**d killer every now and again to keep it at bay. They haven't planted the beds and stopped the w**d killer when we told them we wanted to plant the beds. (I want to plant vegetables and flowers including, bulbs, and sweet peas along the fence). Any thoughts of how to get rid of Oxalis? The two beds are 15 x 5 ft. -- Nalani in San Francisco

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Hi Nalani,

You should attempt to dig as much of the Oxalis out as possible. Mature plants have many small bulblets at the base. Sifting the soil after you have dug what you can will help capture any loose bulblets. Cover your beds with the lasagna method of mulching. First wet newspaper, then cardboard, then compost or forest mulch, then more newspaper, planting mix, cardboard, then compost. You can plant directly into your lasagna layers. Any Oxalis trying to resprout will be depressed by the mulch layers.

Discover 10 ways to get started with Bay Friendly Gardening!

10 Ways to Get Started with Bay-Friendly Gardening - Sloat Garden Center These Bay-Friendly practices into your garden actually make gardening chores less of a chore. Including even just a few of these tips will reap multiple benefits. Sloat Garden Center draws information and the latest science from many local organizations like StopWaste.org, Our Water Our World, and U...

Here's one way to get a tree home! 🌲🌲🎄🎄

We love our local growers! Learn the interesting history behind Sunborne Nursery.

Meet our Family of Local Producers & Growers: Sunborne Nursery - Sloat Garden Center We source our locally grown houseplants from many growers, and one absolute favorite is Sunborne growers, owned and operated by Dan & Candice, plus their son Eli. In business since 1975, they grow indoor plants and succulents and are working on building another greenhouse for more propagating and gr...

Houseplant Superstars at our Martinez Store 🌿💚
Our Martinez location has a houseplant space that's stocked with your favorite indoor plants. Drop by the store and check out our fantastic selection of green goodies, pottery, houseplant soil, houseplant food, terrarium kits, and much more.

Give the Gift of Gardening! 🎁🌟🌿

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your Bay Area friend or family member? We now have gift cards for purchase online! (They're also available at all Sloat Garden Center locations.) Our gift cards can be used year round for houseplants, perennials, annuals, pottery, soil, tools, and more.

Purchase a gift card:

Buy a Gift Card - Sloat Garden Center Home > Buy a Gift Card Buy a Gift Card Step 1 of 3 33% Gift Card AmountSelect an Amount(Required) The amount of the gift card reflects how much each one has. If you select the "choose your amount" option, please make sure you enter a value of $25 or more in the field below.Custom Amount Minimum amou...

Mike at our Kentfield store keeps all the Paperwhites, Amaryllis, and holiday planters watered. Stop by and see his favorites! 💚

Happy National Poinsettia day! We have so many options in our stores — white, pale yellow, pink, and also, classic bright red! 🌺🎄🌟

Quiet afternoon in San Francisco with houseplants 🌿

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your Bay Area friend or family member? We now have gift cards for purchase online! Gift cards are also available at all Sloat Garden Center locations.

https://sloatgardens.com/gift-card/

Christmas Tree preservation tips 🎄

🌲 Use a water stand and check the water level daily.
🌲 Water should fill the stand almost to the top.
🌲 Always keep your tree away from hot, sunny windows, heating registers and fireplaces.

Spruce up your home for the holidays with colorful and unique pottery and plant pairings. We've just added new styles designed to brighten living spaces.

Can't find the perfect pot for your plant (or the perfect plant for your pot)? Our team can help put together a winning combination! Visit Sloat Garden Center to see our expanding line of indoor pottery in a range of colors, sizes, and styles. 🤍❤🤍

Our stores are overflowing with colorful winter and holiday plants, including an incredible selection of Poinsettias, Christmas Cactus, and Topiaries like lemon Cypress, Lavender, and Rosemary. Make your home merry indoors and out!

How to Care for Poinsettiahttps://sloatgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Poinsettia-care-1.pdf