Welcome to The Dry Garden Nursery
510-547-3564
6556 Shattuck Avenue
(Between Ashby and Alcatraz)
Oakland, California, USA, 94609
Contact The Dry Garden Nursery
We are open Tuesday - Saturday, 10am to 5pm
Sunday, 11am - 4pm, and Monday by appointment
The Dry Garden Nursery is located in North Oakland, California, right on Shattuck Avenue, between Ashby and Alcatraz, about a half block from the Berkeley line. Since opening in 1987, we have served not only the nearby communities of Oakland and Berkeley, but far and wide throughout the Bay Area. Indeed, while traveling through the many beautiful and now horticulturally complex neighborhoods nearby and throughout the East Bay, our presence here on Shattuck Ave. is clearly reflected. We serve our customers with beautiful plants which are completely sustainable in our glorious Bay Area climate(s). Specializing in low water and drought tolerant plants from Mediteranian-like and arid regions of the world, we focus on succulents and cacti, rare, BIZARRE, and very unusual plants, along with a few monstrose, caudiciforms, and crests. This site has been crafted by our friend, the artist, Mark Bulwinkle, with Adobe Dreamweaver, especially to show off Richard Ward's wonderful photographs of some of his most admired plants. Here, his obvious love for some of these thrilling plants is impossible to conceal. If you like this site, bookmark it on your computer and e-mail the link to friends. Even better, come on down to the nursery and look around. You may want to take a couple of vivacious but lonely plants home with you just to keep you company. Even let them watch the food channel why not? "A picture can be worth a thousand and one words... at least," said somebody.
Click on the links below to navigate to other pages in our web site. Also, be sure to enlarge each image on the Hortisexual Wonders page to rejoice along with us in these plants' georgeous horticulturally shameless beauty! Thank you all so very, very much.
"Oh, my dear beautious plant, but my intentions are purely honorable!"
Try our handy gift certificate which you may purchase at the Nursery
Sonchus Canariensis
Euphorbia Atropurpurea
A Serendipidous Wonder. At the nursery, the finest trips to beauty are often unplanned
Protea Cynaroides
Some sweet dancing beauties, Fuchsia 'Firecrackers'
come inside from the cold
Aichryson sp variagated
Bark of Brachychiton rapestris
Typically sophisticated local plant aficionados, Mark and Michael, from Oakland, California
Jimpa Nyima and his beloved assistant, Engsal,
our plants' best friends.
A purple tree dahlia blossomb fondled by Agnes
Rettie at the end of May in Alameda, California.
Such an unusual time for such a full first year
bloom. A happy plant grown from a cutting
started at the Dry Garden Nursery.
Look at we, look at we, three.
Here are some links to other sites we like:
San Francisco Botanical Garden U.C. Botanical Garden The Ruth Bancroft Garden
Bulwinkleland The Maybeck Sackhouse Cal Hort Society
All visual material on these web pages is the exclusive copywritten property of Richard Ward and may not be used for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without his written permission. Offenders will be persecuted, vigerously!