Golden Gate Palms & Exotics

Specialties

Golden Gate Palms specializes in providing palm trees of all sizes and types to the people of Northern California. We are especially skilled at getting large specimens into tight access areas. We also carry a large assortment of complimentary subtropical plants for outdoor use including succulents, citrus and cold hardy avocados.

History

Established in 1990.

Golden Gate Palms started in 1990 as Gary’s dream of bringing subtropical plants into the Northern California landscape. Exotic Flora Landscape and Nursery was then born for this purpose and Gary designed and installed hundreds of residential and commercial projects. In 2000, the name was changed to Golden Gate Palms and Exotics Nursery to more focus on palms which we continue to do to this day. However, we still grow lots of beautiful and interesting plants complimentary to palms and the subtropical palette such as succulents, citrus and avocados. Here in 2016, we are flipping our nursery upside down and changing the front of the nursery to the back as we bought an adjacent building which was Richmond’s most notorious liquor store and have remodeled the building and will be using it as our new sales office with a built in Taqueria with outdoor dining spilling out into our new demonstration garden. Excuse our dust this year but the end result will be beautiful, and delicious!

Meet the Business Owner

Gary G.

Business Owner

Gary has specialized in Exotic Plant materials and subtropical landscape design since he could remember. Literally. He talked his parents into allowing him to create a desert garden when he was 7 while his parents had no botanical experience or acumen whatsoever. Roll forward 40 years and hundreds of design build projects later and countless huge palms installed throughout the Bay Area and beyond, and Gary is the go to guy if you need anything involving palms and or subtropical garden design/​install.