Month: February 2017

On Ortega Highway Now Open Again As much as we have “enjoyed” our three (count ‘em 3) weeks (who’s counting? we are… 21 days) of

All workshops are free and begin at 9:30 am. Saturday February 25 Butterfly Gardening Join us to learn the joys of butterfly gardening! Butterfly expert

A bummer of a sink-hole just west of our entrance. The road is closed a mile before our gate if you’re coming from the 5 Freeway in San Juan Capistrano.

We are literally… “so close and yet so far away.”

In our 40-year business history with 32 years at our current location, this extended road closure on Ortega Highway has probably been our biggest challenge, from an “emergency” point of view anyway. The highway closed on January 25, the reopening date is uncertain, and it looks like we will have a few more days alone out here in “Quiet Land.” A ten minute drive from San Juan Capistrano has become a 100-mile journey over hill and dale to come in through Elsinore. Our sales have temporarily dried up during a nice wet year.

Unless there is some sort of severe weather or maybe something like, say, a road closure, gardeners would much rather select and plant beauties at the peak of the season than do other garden tasks. Just so happens though that the road is impassable from San Juan Capistrano, leaving our wonderful Orange County patrons in a somewhat forced sainthood of preparing, cleaning and repairing instead of the usual February nursery visits resulting in planting bonanzas that are riotous fun… and sorely missed right now!… unless you want to drive around the horn and come at us from Elsinore. We’d love to see you, and the CHP officer at the light is quite friendly when you tell him you are on your way to your favorite nursery.