Lemuria Nursery

Lemuria is an amazing nursery! I have been several times and bought many dozens of plants there. The guys who run the nursery are incredibly knowledgeable about plants and how to make them succeed in this part of the world. Their prices are much lower than other nurseries I’ve been to around the area. I was once talking with somebody about this nursery in a park, and a stranger came up and said «Lemuria? I love that nursery! They know everything, and the prices are great.» This is the place to go.

We drove to Dixon to check out this Nursery and I was a little less than impressed! Sorry to say it was a bit of a mess. There is not good signage to see where the office /​persons working here and chicken poo everywhere… sweep the floor! When we finally did find someone he won’t even look us in the face while we talked to him. We had at least a 5 to 10 minute conversation and the gentleman just looked out the window most of the time. I have to say it does make me confident in what he was saying. I’m hoping this was just an off day… Sorry don’t like to leave bad reviews. I don’t think I would go back!

I’ve worked closely with Eric and Pete from Lemuria for the past fifteen years since I’ve been in business. I’ve always appreciated being treated with respect and with a sense of humor. They are knowledgeable and dependable and have a wide variety of plants. When I need plants that are not readily available they order them and are received in a short period of time.
They are the best place to go between Sacramento and American Canyon that have an excellent selection of plants at reasonable prices.
They have also graciously donated plants for the music boosters of Vacaville for the last several years.
I would recommend Lemuria nursery for both residential and commercial plants. They will take care of you.

Came back for round three. We have a huge backyard that needs to be landscaped. Friendly, knowledgable, and always helpful! We make it a point to only purchase our plants and trees from here.
Highly recommend!!!

I am a new home owner and I just landscaped my front yard and am doing my backyard currently. I know absolutely nothing about plants except I know what I like (look wise of course). I went to Lemuria and asked for there advise. I told them my situation and lack of knowledge of plants. I pulled out my phone and showed them pictures of trees and plans I liked.(they immediately knew the style/​look I was going for). I told them I want plants that don’t need me to babysit. They recommended many plants that I should get and most important the ones NOT to get. They also helped me with ideas on placement and told me how to water them. Thank you Lemuria so much and I will alway come to you and refer all friend and family to you as well. :)

Lemuria is a great nursery. They have a good selection of landscaping plants. You won’t find the typical big box store petunia assortment. Instead you will find a great selection of perennials, roses, flowers, shrubs and trees. They get some very nice trees from Dave Wilson farms (which incidentally has an excellent website for tips on selecting trees).
If you’re looking for vegetables you’re out of luck, I don’t believe they carry any.

This is a great independent nursery. They have an AWESOME SELECTION of California natives and perennials as well as some unique plants as well. In addition to ordering plants from Wholesale Growers, they also grow and propagate their own plant material too.
The nursery is about a mile and half off the freeway so it’s not in the middle of town in a fancy retail location. If you’re looking for a nursery with Fountains and lots of Garden Art this isn’t it.
If you’re looking to save a lot of money and you’re looking for plants that are different and better quality than those at the big box garden center, Lemuria is it.
As a Landscape Designer, I’ve purchased a lot of plants from Lemuria for not only projects I’ve designed, but my own yard. Not to mention, I worked in and managed a local nursery and a California Certified Nurseryman. so I’ve got a decent amount of experience to say that I highly recommend Lemuria.

I went to pick a tree out for a school to plant. I am a certified arborist and happen to know what to look for in a good tree. The man was showing me a tree and while he stood there I began to inspect the root flare as I always do before purchasing a nursery tree. He asked me if everything was ok. I said I could not find the root flare. Then he said they don’t let people «probe roots» (is what he called it when anyone in the industry could see I was actually doing a root collar inspection) unless they are certified arborists. Now this is the first I ever heard a nursery say this to me. I thought … what about all the people who are not certified arborists but happen to know how to look for good trees? Well you won’t be allowed to check it out unless you pay a certified arborist to come with you I guess. He said he needed my certified arborist card if I was going to continue on there. I said I would have to drive all the way home (more than 30 min drive). He said I would have to do that. I then realized he could check the International Society of Arboriculture website for my name and handed him my driver’s license. He said he would not do it. I told him if I left I would not be back. He said «Fine by me». I said «Thank you and have a nice day». I left. I won’t be back. The trees I did look at were severely buried so deep I never could find the root flare and the tree zig zagged back in forth inside that pot 2 or 3 times in 4 inches. No thanks, bad quality trees and extremely poor customer service. Capitol Nursery was very nice to me on the phone and so was Youngmark in Woodland when I went there in person. Also, the trees were of good quality with good crowns and root flares (the three trees I inspected) I will go to any of these before I ever go back to Lemuria.