Reserve Your Spot at the Fall Plant Sale!

Happening October 29 through November 9, receive fantastic discounts on our most diverse selection of plants, seeds, bulbs of the year! Make your shopping reservation today.

In the Gallery: Garden Magic

Explore the plants and wildlife of Theodore Payne Foundation, lovingly captured through the eyes of TPF Staff in our new exhibition at Theodore Payne Gallery.

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California Native Plants

Explore our diverse and ever-changing selection of California native plants.

Seed Mixes

Ethically sourced, expertly mixed, exclusive to TPF

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Sowing Season Favorite: Payne's #1: Rainbow Mix

An original seed mix designed by Theodore Payne himself, our Rainbow Mix has been a lasting favorite through the decades, and for good reason! Specially mixed to have staggered blooms through early-to-late spring, this seed mix offers a rainbow of wildflowers at varying heights to create a beautiful meadow of color and texture in your garden for all of spring.

Sow fall to winter to grow your own rainbow of wildflowers!

Plant of the Month: Whitestem Hedgenettle (Stachys albens)

Stachys albens (whitestem hedgenettle) is a mint endemic to California. The plant is fuzzy all over and the leaves are reminiscent of lamb's ears. Whitestem hedgenettle is a very generous plant that spreads by rhizomes and blooms from May to October. This plant has a wide habitat distribution and can be found anywhere between sea level and and elevation of 9,000 ft. This dreamy little hedgenettle is very easy to grow in sun-to-part sun, regularly watered areas. It is a host plant for the larva of the variable checkerspot butterfly.