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NEWLY OPENED HERON’S HEAD NURSERY OFFERS PLANTS SELECTED FOR SAN FRANCISCO GARDENS

Heron’s Head Nursery (heronsheadnursery.com) offers customers hard to find plants in an urban oasis

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With microclimates and persistent sun-blocking fog, gardening in San Francisco can take some patience and persistence. But, as a new trend in indoor plant stores across the city shows, filling our lives with green friends is a truly comforting way to make a home a haven. If you’re lucky enough to have a yard, so much the better. For many San Franciscans, the pandemic has allowed them to dedicate some time and effort to making their yards into true outside living spaces – ones they can use to gather with friends and family in safety.

Elliot Goliger, a Bernal Heights resident of 12 years, moved to San Francisco from the Bronx more than 25 years ago so he could be closer to the outdoors. Soon after he arrived, he started his award-winning landscape company, Artisans Landscape, Inc., and he’s had his hands in the dirt ever since. “Over the years I’ve developed an instinct and an eye for understanding which plants will feel at home in which neighborhoods in San Francisco, and which will wistfully die out in our microclimates,” says Goliger. 

Last September, mid-pandemic and mid-fire season, Goliger decided that there was no time like the present to realize a dream he’d had for many years – opening a plant nursery. “It was a crazy time to open, but so many people came by right from the start. We took a lot of care in designing our space, and it’s right across from Heron’s Head Park. I think people enjoy coming down and making an afternoon of it, exploring this part of the city and buying plants for their homes.”

Goliger builds on his experience of landscaping in San Francisco to carefully select plants that he knows will do well in the city’s gardens. He carries a variety of flora for customers seeking small, hard- to-find plants as well as larger ones, including lemon trees and unusual bamboo plants. He also carries uncommon indoor plants which are displayed in the nursery’s recycled wood greenhouse and office, which was constructed from a discarded storage container.

Heron’s Head Nursery is adjacent to Bay Natives Nursery, which sells California native plants, a complement to Goliger’s ornamental options. Bay Natives’ spirited chickens are renowned to visitors, as are the goats who live next door. On the weekends, visitors can catch local bands playing at a free music event on the site, hosted by a nonprofit called “The New Farm”. Heron’s Head Nursery also serves Sightglass espresso and has an upstairs hang-out deck with a 360-degree bird’s eye view of San Francisco and the bay.

Heron’s Head Nursery (415) 510-2500 is open 7 days a week from 9:30 to 5 and is located at 98 Jennings St., across from Heron’s Head Park in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunter’s Point neighborhood. Plants can be ordered online at heronsheadnursery.com for easy contact-less curbside pickup or curbside delivery in San Francisco.