2025 Winter Solstice
December 21, 2025
Complicated stuff This notion of a calendar, Man’s time based on God’s heavens. We think we’ve got it, right down to the minute, 2025
Category: Monthly Garden Advice
Nursery Closing – Time Extension into 2026
December 15, 2025
Dear Friend of Tree of Life, The bittersweet moments of ending our 45-year relationship are upon us as our nursery business draws to a close.
Important Notice Regarding Nursery Closing Season
December 10, 2025
Important Notice Regarding Nursery Closing Season Plants are still available, and we have some very cool Tree of Life merchandise. The nursery will remain
December 2025 In The Natural Garden
December 5, 2025
Words and photos by Mike Evans Tree of Life has been propagating, producing, and selling high quality California native plants for 45 years. Actually started
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025
This is honestly our favorite holiday. We set aside one day a year, in a very special way, to stop and reflect, then give thanks
NOVEMBER 2025- In the natural garden
November 10, 2025
Words by Mike Evens As the 2025 calendar year draws to a close, we approach the end of an era, as Tree of Life Nursery
AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER 2025 – In the Natural Garden
November 10, 2025
Words and photos by Mike Evans I have been falling behind on the timely writing and sending of this newsletter. My apologies. So much going
June/July In the Natural garden
August 6, 2025
“To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one’s own interior landscape, and the familiar landscapes of
April/May In the Natural garden
July 21, 2025
Words and photos by Mike Evans It is looking pretty official, the 2024-25 “rainy” season will go on record as one of the driest. At our
Planting Day at The Nat: Biodiversity Comes to the Museum’s Native Plant Garden
March 24, 2025
Over 200 volunteers planted 660 plants representing 150 native species, many rare and virtually unheard of in commercial horticulture. Tree of Life Nursery provided all the plants and the donation which included unique botanical treasures from 50 years Mike Evans collecting and growing plants native to Alta and Baja California.