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If you’d like your own garden to reflect what you love about visiting Flora Grubb Gardens, we can make it happen. Contact us at design@floragrubb.com / 415-694-6454.

What services does Flora Grubb Gardens provide?
We will transform your existing garden, deck, or interior plantscape, giving you what you want – like lush spaces for relaxing outside, high-style vertical gardens, or postcard gardens to view from your window. As experts in Bay Area microclimates, our designers will choose water-wise plants with the ability to thrive in your setting, whether it’s inside or out, sunny or shady, protected or blasted by salty winds off the Pacific.

How we work with you
The designer will make a one-hour visit to your site to assess your existing conditions, considering light, water, soil, microclimate, and orientation. Soon after your consultation, the designer will meet with you here in the nursery to present the design and show you the plants to be used. Depending on your needs, the product of the consultation can range from simple suggestions, to a plant list and conceptual sketch, to a complete design with installation plan.

Services our partners can provide
To provide you with all the services you need, we work closely with a select pool of licensed contractors. We will connect you with the right contractor to implement our design, including any lighting elements, irrigation systems, paths, soil amendments, and other non-plant components of the garden. If ongoing maintenance is desired, we can recommend some trusted gardeners. If you already have a gardener, or want to work on planting and caring for the garden yourself, we are here to help you.

Our design fees
Our fee for the one-hour visit in San Francisco is $300, and $400 for the Peninsula (from Daly City to Mountain View and Pescadero).
There is no fee for the follow up appointment with your designer here at the nursery.
Revisits to your garden, when necessary, are billed at $150 per hour in San Francisco and $200 on the Peninsula.

Contact us at design@floragrubb.com / 415-694-6454.

Get to know our designers, Patrick Lannan and Daniel Nolan.

A broker is a person who (or business that) arranges transactions between buyers and sellers. If you’re looking for palm trees, we’ve got your man. Contact our staffer Jason Dewees when you’re looking for palms in all the design roles that they can fill: trees, shrubs, understory foliage, bamboo substitutes; he can also help with design issues involving palms. He’s available for on-site consultations in the Bay Area, and for questions about which species to use in any microclimate or landscape setting. First-time on-site consulting fees begin at $300, depending on distance from Flora Grubb Gardens. He can also help set you on the right track when the health of a palm is in question. And he’s helpful not just with palms – with 18 years of volunteering at the San Francisco Botanical Garden nursery under his belt, he’s got a wealth of knowledge about trees and shrubs, as well, and does horticultural consultations for homeowners, gardeners, and landscape architects and designers on plant palettes.

ABOVE: Pictured with a Hawaiian loulu palm (Pritchardia minor) in the Mission District, Jason Dewees is the driving force behind The Palm Broker.

As The Palm Broker, Jason actively scours the industry for sources of plants – mostly palm trees, but also other trees and specialty plants. Specimens from his brokering can be found in Dolores Park at the new Helen Diller Playground, San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, and inside the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. And then there are the many palms he has sourced for planting all over the Bay Area, including private residences, Project Artaud, and individual replacements along Dolores Street.

At the SF Botanical Garden Jason isn’t just about brokering fabulous specimens. He has a great podcast on their website about palms, and articles he has written for many publications are available to read in their Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture. Jason has been a member of the Northern California chapter of the International Palm Society since 1986, and wears many hats (both figuratively and literally.) Besides the role of Palm Broker he fills the store’s need for a horticulturist, researching and identifying exciting new plant possibilities that are appropriate for our SF locale and for the Bay Area at large. As our horticulturist he collaborates with our staff designers Patrick Lannan and Daniel Nolan, and also provides horticultural consultations to professional landscapers and landscape architects, as well as customers. Additionally, he serves as a liaison with East West Trees, the wholesale growing grounds division of the nursery, bringing the store’s self-grown supply to market and selling to other western nurseries. Betcha didn’t know there was so much going on here!

We greatly admire Jason’s work and are proud to work with him. Our nursery, and San Francisco’s gardens in general, are a better place for his amazing knowledge and input!

Consultation Fees

Our fee for a one-hour visit in San Francisco is $300. It can range higher outside of San Francisco, depending on distance and time required. While our greatest expertise is in Northern California conditions, we welcome the opportunity to help wherever the landscape involves palms.

No fee is charged when meeting with the Palm Broker here at the nursery.

Revisits to your site, when necessary, are billed at $150 per hour plus travel time; fees can sometimes be waived for visits during installations of trees purchased from the Palm Broker as well as for follow-ups for these large investments.

(This post was guest-written by our own staffer, Zann, who writes his own blog called boZannical Gardens and is a recent contributor to Pacific Horticulture magazine.)