RANA Nursery

07/02/2024

🌿✨ French Lavender Plants on Sale! ✨🌿

Transform your garden into a fragrant oasis with our stunning French Lavender Plants! These lush beauties, grown in convenient 1-gallon containers, are now available for the unbeatable price of $7.00.

Why Choose French Lavender?
🌸 Gorgeous Blooms: Enjoy vibrant purple flowers that add a touch of elegance to any garden or patio.
🌿 Heavenly Scent: Experience the calming and refreshing aroma of fresh lavender, perfect for creating a relaxing atmosphere.
🌞 Easy to Grow: Our French lavender plants thrive in full sun and well-drained soil, making them a low-maintenance addition to your green space.
🐝 Pollinator-Friendly: Attract bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects to your garden, promoting a healthy ecosystem.

Whether you're a seasoned gardener or a budding enthusiast, our French lavender plants are the perfect choice to elevate your outdoor space. Don't miss out on this special offer!

🛒 Hurry, stock is limited! Visit us today and bring home the charm and beauty of French lavender.

05/17/2024

🌼 Discover the beauty and benefits of Romneya coulteri, a stunning California native plant! 🌿 Also known as the Matilija poppy or Fried Egg Flower – you can see why!
Here’s why Romneya coulteri deserves a prime spot in your garden:
Drought Tolerance: Adapted to California’s Mediterranean climate, this resilient plant thrives in dry conditions once established, making it an excellent choice for water-wise landscaping.

Pollinator Magnet: The Matilija poppy attracts a myriad of pollinators, including bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, with its abundant nectar-rich blooms, contributing to biodiversity and ecosystem health.

Erosion Control: With its extensive root system, Romneya coulteri helps stabilize soil on slopes and embankments, mitigating erosion and promoting soil conservation.

Low Maintenance: Once established, Matilija poppies require minimal care, thriving in well-drained soil and full sun, while being relatively pest and disease resistant.

This unbeatable combination of a tough CA indigenous plant and effortless beauty is more than enough reason to incorporate the Romneya into your garden - you’ll also be supporting local biodiversity and ecological balance. 🌼

05/12/2024

Due to high demand from yesterday’s crowd, we have restocked many of the gorgeous blooming plants we sold out of! Look out for more Lavender, Aztec Pearl and Flowering Currant - plus many more 💚

Come by TODAY for the last day of the 2024 Garden Show and our team will help you choose the best blooming and beneficial plants for your gardening needs 🪴

05/07/2024

04/23/2024

Happy Earth Day from RANA Nursery! 🌎 We hope everyone who brought home plants from our weekend events and sales is enjoying planting them and making a positive impact this Earth Day! 🌱 Planting native species not only supports biodiversity but also helps offset carbon emissions. Plus, it creates a beautiful habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects. 🦋 Check out some of our staff favorites perfect for planting today: Aesculus californica, Armeria maritima, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, Epilobium canum, Erigeron glaucus, Carex pansa – and many more! 🌼 Swing by today, and our team can assist you in choosing the perfect plants for your gardening goals.

04/20/2024

COME SEE US tomorrow in Carmel at various events hosting plant sales and educational booths! And of course the Nursery is open, offering heavy Spring Sale discounts on certain plants 🪻🌱

Check out the locations and come celebrate Earth Day weekend with our experts and bring home a beneficial pollinator for your garden 🪴

03/29/2024

🪻🌱There are a total of 47 of species of Lavender, native to areas covering the entire Mediterranean coastline including, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Turkey and Greece, Morocco, Somalia, Algeria, as well as areas of India and Southern Asia, and Southern Africa. 
These areas are characterized by the hot, dry, exposed, slopes, amidst rocks and chalky soil. Lavender, therefore, thrives with full-sun in well-drained, low-nutrient soils. They like good air circulation, as they are accustomed to the Mediterranean sea breeze, and prefer gravel at their base rather than organic mulch, which can trap too much moisture around the plant’s roots.

Lavender makes an excellent addition to any garden or landscape as they are extremely well adapted to drought conditions, needing little to no water once established, are very deer-tolerant, and add incredible color and fragrance when in bloom. 

Rana currently has three varieties of Lavender in stock: 
Lavandula stoechas ‘Winter Bee’ – Winter Bee Spanish Lavender
Lavandula ‘Grosso’ – French Bleu Lavender Lavandula latifolia – Broadleaved Lavender 

Reach out now to secure your lovely or of Lavender 🪻

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03/22/2024

Although it is known as the California Poppy, its native range reaches to Washington, Baja California and east to Arizona and New Mexico.

You may have noticed that the flowers open during the sunlight hours of the day and close in the early evening and on cloudy days, a function called nyctinasty, or ‘plant sleep’! The purpose of nyctinastic movements in plants is not fully known, and some theories include the protection of pollen and reducing the risk of freezing. 

The California Poppy is of critical importance to pollinators. It is favored by many native bumble bees, sweat bees, mining bees and 5 specialist pollinators in the genus Perida (also called Fairy Bees, because they’re so dang small). It is confirmed as a larval host to five butterflies including the Acmon Blue, Dotted Blue, and Mormon Meadowlark and is important to thrips, hover flies, pirate bugs and beetles.

Would you like to see CA Poppy in your own yard? Come visit us at RANA Nursery for yours!

Open 7 days a week 7-3 ☀️

03/19/2024

Our favorite season is upon us 🪻🌱☀️ Spring into those garden and landscape upgrades now while the timing is right! The Nursery yard is looking bright and@beautiful with blooming Sticky monkey flower and sage varieties, to name a few.

Stop in ANY day of the week now that we are open for all 7!

03/16/2024

Ended this week on a high note, hosting a local kindergarten class at the Nursery yesterday ☺️

The class has been learning and talking about native plants recently and got to see firsthand what it takes for them to thrive! They had a blast visiting the lambs and seeing the horses on the farm too 🐑

Thanks for connecting everyone!

03/09/2024

Open 7 days a week!

Today has been a beautiful day in Carmel Valley, giving us a preview of early Spring☀️

Stop in this weekend for all your Spring gardening needs, this helpful young plant enthusiast may even be there to make some recommendations!

Weekend hours 🪻
Saturday 7-3
Sunday 9-3

03/01/2024

It felt like Spring this week in Carmel Valley ☀️ and we got our retail area ready for it!
The upcoming rains will only do our plants more good for true Spring season with flourishing natives and strong, drought tolerant succulents.

DM for your orders today!