Socalnurseryplants.com, a new gardening directory

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Avid gardener and self-described “nursery geek” Susan Hirsch has launched the new online nursery directory Socalnurseryplants.com to help support mom-and-pop businesses in the Los Angeles area.

The website is meant to help gardeners too by featuring 56 nurseries in the area, listing what type of plants are offered, what kinds of pots or other merchandise are sold, whether landscaping and maintenance services are offered, plus hours, locations and links. Hirsch also offers interesting tidbits such as who supplied plants to the Getty Center’s cactus garden (California Cactus Center in Pasadena) and who offers delivery as well as planting (Jauregui Nursery in Gardena).

Hirsch says she has logged nearly 200,000 hits since the site premiered in August. ‘We’ve got to support our local businesses,’ she says, ‘or they won’t be here anymore.”
-- Lisa Boone

Photos clockwise from left: Malibu Garden Center, Grow in Venice, Green Arrow Nursery in Van Nuys and California Cactus Center in Pasadena by Susan Hirsch