Villager Nursery

Villager Nursery Serving Truckee gardeners for decades, our experience helps you succeed.

A retail nursery / garden center / plant shop offering impressive selections of native, cold-hardy, historically significant, unique, and interesting plants in seed, bulb, and pot. Villager Nursery has a vast wealth of knowledge and experience about plants, supplies and much more. We are a retail nursery, landscape and restoration company serving Truckee and the Northern Sierras. As avid botanists

, naturalists and gardeners with degrees in the biological sciences, we specialize in education, natives, restoration, edible fruits and berries, useful herbs, extreme cold-hardy plants, unique and interesting color, arts and gifts. We are a mountain nursery, so we incorporate a large portion of native plants into our inventory and landscapes. Our staff and interns are encouraged to get out and hike as often as possible, to observe native ecosystems and plant communities and to look for similar environments in the man-made environments around homes. We pride ourselves on having a knowledgeable staff, and our passion for the material is expressed in the missionary zeal with which we constantly share information. Our goal is to remain the main source for reliable gardening, and the source of the widest variety of native plants.

06/10/2026

These Trumpet or Coral Honeysuckles often seem magical. Honeysuckles have unique vining that supports clusters of coral to pink buds, golden blossoms and red-orange clusters.

Honeysuckles need a sturdy support to climb up such as the trellis pictured here.

They are known for their incredible fragrance which draws Hummingbirds from all around!They are also deer resistant!


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06/09/2026

Olly and Oatie are sleeping cheek to cheek! Thank you Mary Beth for taking this great photo! Olly and Oatie are loving that Spring is here and our Nursery is filled with lots of customers who are giving them tons of attention. Sometimes though, they just need to get in their box and snuggle up. It’s hard work to be Nursery cats! 🐾🐾

We are now open Monday thru Saturday 9:00-5:30 and Sundays 10-3. 🌻 We have truck loads of incredible annuals, perennials, vegetables, shrubs, trees, native plants and much, much more coming in daily! Things go quickly so come check us out! 🌿🦋





06/08/2026

This Western Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio rutulus) was flying around Villager Nursery drinking nectar from various flowers but its favorite seemed to be our beautiful Western Azalea. (Thank you Liam for these incredible photos).

Western Tiger Swallowtail’s bright and vibrant yellow color is paired with a unique wing shape and intricate black markings. They also often have intriguing blue and orange spots near their tail end. The wingspan of Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies is usually 3 to 4 inches!

If you visit Villager Nursery you will often see lots of beautiful butterflies, bees and birds with all the pollinator friendly plants we have. Plant a pollinator garden for yourself!


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06/04/2026

This amazing Coreopsis Tickseed has large gold and bronze flowers. It is an easy to care for perennial and will often bloom throughout the summer. This golden Tickseed enjoys full sun.

Coreopsis are excellent for adding to a homemade floral bouquet or perfect for a container or border. These showy, daisy-like flowers are native to North America. Try them in your garden!


17 th Annual FREE Planting Days, May 30th & 31st - We've been fortunate with the weather for most of the past 17 years o...
05/26/2026

17 th Annual FREE Planting Days, May 30th & 31st - We've been fortunate with the weather for most of the past 17 years of this event - often too warm. It is important to remember that our low humidity and elevation allows for frost ANY night of the summer so ALL of us have a little frost-cloth (floating row-cover) at the ready to protect any tender plants we choose to put in our hanging baskets or planter boxes. We have plenty on hand if you need some.

05/25/2026

We are excited about an order we received of well over 1,000 plants referred to as Liners or Propagation Liners. This truck load came from a grower in northern Nebraska that Eric has great respect for.

Liners are very young plants, usually grown from seeds and cuttings. They are grown in 2”x3”pots, and by purchasing them in this way it eliminates the middleman providing a Great Value to our customers!

These trays can be found throughout the nursery. There are tons of interesting herbs, flowers and plants that you can’t find anywhere else. It’s an opportunity to experiment with interesting and exciting plants at a low cost!

These are a few of what is available!

Madeline Hills Rosemary (very hardy)
Coreopsis. Bee Balm
Lavender. Beard Tongue
Rudbeckia Snowy Tansy
Polygonum Fleece. Columbines
Corsica Violet. Tall Garden Phlox
Veronica Clematis
Lemongrass. Penstemon
Lemon Thyme. Chives
Savia. Snowdrops
Chrysanthemum Anise Mint
Coneflower Sweet Peas
Stone Crop. Sedum
Golden Sage. Orange Mint

05/23/2026

We have new beautiful pottery and incredible wooden planters to enhance your garden, patio or deck.

The pottery features gorgeous colors in moss green, white, a bluish gray and a creamy chocolate. The top of the pottery has a unique white lava bubble look. All of this pottery comes in a variety of sizes for your needs!

Choose a pot or a planter, add some flowers, unique plants, or veggies and herbs to create and plant up your own personal design.

We have many more different beautiful pots, so stop by and check out your possibilities!

Free Planting days are coming up on Friday, May 29th and Saturday, May 30th, so that is another option for this pottery! Watch for more on these fun days and how you can participate!


05/22/2026

Villager Nursery is bursting with blossoms & blooms for Memorial Day Weekend! Trucks have been coming in and out delivering beautiful flowers and incredible plants. It’s a joy to walk through the nursery!

We also have had entire trucks filled with trees, shrubs, vegetables, pottery, soils & more soils, fertilizers, seeds, garden art, gifts…. the list goes on and on!

Open Mon thru Sat 9:00-5:30, Sun 10-3

We hope to see you soon!


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05/21/2026

Anyone can be a farmer with spuds!
Come check out our great selection of seed potatoes! Olly & Oatie are sitting watch over them for you! 🐾🐾

We offer a dozen or so varieties, every season, organic when possible, in several colors and sizes. Eric hand picks the potatoes he knows will do well in our mountain environment and all of them are delicious!

A few among the offerings are Huckleberry Gold, German Butterball, Arizona Gold, Red Lasoda , Magic Molly, Cheshire, and Irish Cobbler Potato.

🌿The Villager has also created a great pamphlet about Mountain Potato Growing which you can find in our link in bio from our newly improved website. 🌿 Potatoes are easy to grow and you get a great surprise when you unearth them at the end of the season. 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔

Facebook - https://www.villagernursery.com/handout/mountain-potato-growing/

Let us know in the comments below what is your favorite kind of potato to grow!






Address

10678 Donner Pass Road
Truckee, CA
96161

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9am - 5:30pm
Friday 9am - 5:30pm
Saturday 9am - 5:30pm
Sunday 10am - 3pm

Telephone

+15305870771

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