Tucked away,a lovely little location. Found a plant there that I had been looking for for years.read more

Great little nursery for all your outdoor needs. The service was great when needed help with what…read moreto use organically on my avocado trees. The prices are not any higher than the box stores. The love supporting local businesses:)

Valley Hills Nursery was a great find! I was looking for a nursery in the area to pick up a new…read moreplant, and I was impressed by how large it was and the variety of plants they had. The employee who helped me was very knowledgeable and showed me several plants that could survive the extreme heat where I live. He also gave me helpful advice on caring for some plants I've been struggling with. I really appreciated his patience and willingness to help. I'll definitely be coming back for more plants whenever I'm in the area!

Good variety, helpful workers. Very knowledgeable staff They…read moreeven help you bring plants to the car

Me and wife stumbled across this place when we saw their sign on Castroville blvd. We decided to go…read morecheck it out. Now fair warning part of the road gets pretty rough when you get near the nursery. It goes from paved to dirt and with the recent weather wasn't that great but we made it fine just went slow. The nursery is a really cool eclectic place. It is run by a husband and wife and they are super friendly and helpful. They had great energy and really went out of their way to help. The prices are amazing. Probably the best the wife has ever come across. She went for succulents which they had some very nice ones. But they also had plenty of others. I highly recommend this place. The wife has already been telling her friends about it. FYI they are only open on Saturday.

This place is INSANE! So gorgeously unique and you can totally see how much they care for the…read moreplants. If you wander through their central garden bit then you can find a garden within a garden ;) Such beautiful little scenes and vases and figurines sprinkled everywhere. And their bonsai section... wow. Just, wow. Nicely covered with some soft grass beneath you it feels like you're stepping into a tiny peaceful bubble with all kinds of miniature trees. They even had a Sakura Azalea. :) I loved how much they had some in a "ready to go" vase and some in handmade wooden mini planter boxes. So many choices to choose from. Definitely going to be back. And conveniently uses Venmo! Quick and easy and friendly and professional. Favorite plant spot.

Highest quality ever seen, with very mature growth in all sizes. Used them for our new home…read moreoriginal plantings

Lakeside helped me when I took out my lawn and replaced it with a beautiful garden of drought…read moretolerant, easy maintenance, butterfly and bee happy flowers and shrubs. I had lots of choices of healthy plants as well as suggestions and experience to back up their advice. All business was handled professionally with my landscape crew. Within minutes of being off loaded from the truck, my new plants had attracted a butterfly and shortly after planting, my yard was claimed as a happy, new territory for a pair of amazing, turbo-powered hummingbirds. I am very happy with the thriving environment and I'm grateful to Lakeside for helping bring it to life.

4-year-update: All the plants I have purchased from Rana are absolutely THRIVING. Also, I am very…read moregrateful to the Rana staff for their willingness to help me troubleshoot a few of the plants that got initially a slow start. (Turns out a few of the plants needed more sun. I had planted them in what I had *thought* was a sunny spot...but it was East-facing and Carmel gets a lot of fog. Later I transplanted them, at Pedro's suggestion, into the sunniest spot on my property, on a south-facing bank -- and voila. Problem = solved.) Zooming out a little, it's also worth keeping this saying in mind: "First they sleep, then they creep, then they leap." The reality is that drought-resistant CA natives can sometimes be a little more slow on the "leaping" process than common ornamentals because their energy will be going more into root production and establishing a symbiotic relationship with the soil mycorrhizae* during the first couple years. By year 3, all my plants from Rana had truly started LEAP and now they have graduated from drip irrigation and are their own self-sufficient beauties. The plants from Rana are truly top-notch. Go in with some foundational plant knowledge, and prepare to leave very, very, happy. P.S. *mycorrhizae = the fungal network through which most CA natives get much of their water. (It's one of the basics of understanding CA native plant ecology.) Even if you didn't know that, you should at the very least know the plants you want by their specific epithet (i.e. scientific/Latin) Name before attempting to shop wholesale. ________________________________ Dear other Yelp reviewers: Stop complaining about lack of labeling. The labels are indeed there, with at least one white label tag per each section of plants. It's not Rana's fault if you feel overwhelmed or if only know the Common Name of a plant and/or have no idea how to identify it visually. It sounds to me like maybe you shouldn't have been attempting to shop wholesale to begin with. Want to go buy some Toyon? The label at Rana (and just about all wholesale nurseries, for that matter) will read "Heteromeles arbutifolia." Toyon is just the Common Name. In other regions, people might call it California Holly. (One plant usually has several common names.) That is the wholesale nursery only uses the Scientific Name...to avoid ambiguity. So please, to those grumpy Yelp reviewers out there...how about you spend a little more time studying up on your plant knowledge, and a little less time complaining about a nursery who is simply doing things by the industry standard for wholesale?

Driven past the sign for this nursery that it was open with native plants for sale many times and…read moredecided to finally check it out. Actual experience was weird and unfriendly. As another reviewer mentioned, nothing is labelled and the plants are spread out so hard to find. Definitely go knowing what you want and they do have an inventory list online. That being said, the one person who came out to "help" us seemed eager that we leave rather than browse (got the vibe she either didn't want to help us or thought we were going to steal something.) Pretty odd in contrast to the welcoming sign on the road. Don't recommend, there are nicer nurseries in the area with native plants and better customer service. Don't know why they even bother selling to the public.

Great quality, competitive prices. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.Friendly staff committed to serving their…read morecustomers

Amanda, who is the owner's daughter, runs the office, is friendly, and possesses a wealth of…read moreknowledge about the product they sell. Their prices are the lowest I've found and I'm going back today.

Lets get one thing straight. This isn't a big box store. This isn't some giant company. This is one…read moreguy with his family running a pretty large operation. The bottom line for me is this: if you want it, they probably have it. If they don't, they can probably get it for you! I have been buying some italian cypress from Sanchez Nursery for about a year now for a privacy screen in my back yard. I previously bought trees from Costco. They died. The ones I bought here are alive and thriving!! They are so much better! My wife wanted a particular rose bush... circus roses, they had it! We're looking at putting in a cocktail tree (one trunk with 5 different stone fruit grafted to it). THEY HAVE IT!! It seems everything i need they have!! Star Jasmine? Yup! I cant wait to buy more from this family! I'll be buying all my plants from here from now on!prices vary, but the quality is spot on!

Family run. Great service with a smile, huge selection of plants acclimatized to Hollister…read moreweather. Reasonable prices too!

All ways fast and friendly Came for 3 yards of wood chips…read more It takes longer to drive across town, than it is to fill the trailer

5 stars for Jose!!! I called/visited a few landscaping supply shops in Gilroy like outdoor…read moresolutions, and evergreen supply in san jose and watsonville etc and it seemed like NOBODY wanted to give me the time of day when i was trying to order 4 pallets of pavers and would make me feel like i was bugging them for calling for a quote. no help whatsoever.... until I called JOSE at Hollister Supply. He was the only guy who took him time helping me out! He even went as far as checking out the equivalent stone to what i was looking for from another manufacturer. He went online and everything. He even helped me select the appropriate quantity of material for my project. Happy to support helpful businesses in my town too :-)