What's Growing On

Find the best plants, trees, and shrubs for the season, including new varieties and top picks for planting right now. Explore expert gardening tips, water-wise solutions, fresh veggies and herbs, and a diverse selection of houseplants—all in one place to help you create a thriving garden.

Add texture, create interest with mirror plants, lomandra, phormium, pittosporum and blue fescue grass.

Your Garden Needs More Than Flowers! 🌿

Bring your Bay Area garden to life with texture, contrast, and year-round interest! Discover how ornamental grasses, colorful foliage, and evergreen shrubs can add depth, movement, and beauty to your landscape—even when nothing is blooming.

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Fall color thru spring with calendula, pansies, iceland poppies, and dianthus.

Fall Color That Lasts Into Spring 🌸

Bring fresh color to your Bay Area garden with beautiful fall-blooming annuals! Explore seasonal favorites that brighten garden beds, borders, and containers with vibrant blooms throughout the cooler months.

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Trees for fall ginko biloba, chinese pistache, and japanese maples, with a time for a change copy on the image.

One Tree Can Change Everything 🍁

Transform your Bay Area landscape with the right tree! Discover how shade trees, ornamental trees, and shrubs can add beauty, structure, and seasonal color—and why fall is the perfect time to plant.

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fall flowers and foliage with osteospermum, pansies, rudbeckias, snapdragons and coleus

Hello, Fall—is that you?

Cooler mornings, shorter days, softer golden light and pumpkin-spiced everything—fall may arrive quietly in the Bay Area, but the garden knows it’s here.

It’s the season for rich autumn color, fresh cool-season flowers, textural grasses, and trees and shrubs that bring renewed interest to the landscape. Even better, fall’s mild temperatures make it an ideal time to plant, giving roots time to establish before next summer.

Ready to welcome the season? Visit SummerWinds and discover beautiful fall color for your Bay Area garden.

Explore Fall Favorites
Fall is Coming rudbeckia, fall color palette with pansies, ornamental cabbage, salvia.

Fall is Coming - Is Your Garden Ready?

We've put together a helpful guide with simple things you can do now—from preparing beds and containers to checking your soil and irrigation, planning your fall color palette, and knowing when it's time for the next phase of fall planting.

Fall Color Guide
November Gardening Calendar: Spraying a fruit tree, leafy greens growing in a raised garden bed, hyachith bulbs in a vase, frost cloth over strawberries, raking leaves, snapdragons, and a monstera houseplant.

November Gardening Calendar

Make the most of November in your Bay Area garden! Discover what to plant, seasonal gardening tasks, and helpful tips to keep your garden healthy and thriving as cooler weather arrives.

November Calendar
Curb appeal; enhancing your landscape with plants full of color and texture.

Create Beautiful Curb Appeal This Summer

Simple front yard ideas for big spaces, small spaces, and everything in between.
Your front yard is the first welcome home. Whether you are refreshing a small entryway or planning a larger landscape project, even simple updates can dramatically transform the feeling of your home.

Our new curb appeal guide walks you through:

  • Choosing the right garden style
  • Building strong landscape structure 
  • Adding color and texture
  • Creating a polished, welcoming look

Plus, our knowledgeable Bay Area nursery team is here to help every step of the way — backed by our impressive plant guarantee for extra confidence.

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SummerWinds Nursery High Performance Organic Potting Soil surrounded by edible plants at SummerWinds.

Your Soil Is About To Get An Upgrade

Give your plants a first-class upgrade with NEW SummerWinds High Performance Organic Potting Soil—a premium organic mix designed to help plants grow stronger, healthier, and more resilient. Whether you're planting flowers, vegetables, herbs, or houseplants, this high-performance soil provides the ideal balance of moisture retention, drainage, and natural nutrition to support strong root growth.

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Blooming pink Pearl Maxwell Camellia shrub

Camellias, You Big Show-off!

Discover the beauty and variety of Camellias for your Bay Area garden! Explore stunning blooms in a range of colors, shapes, and sizes, and find the perfect varieties to bring elegance and seasonal color to your landscape.

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