Villager Soltice Season
Late December - Early January
Hours may vary close to Christmas
depending on sales, inventory and weather.
Open 12/23 10:00-2:00-ish
Closed 12/24/24 through 01/02/2025
Open Thursday - Saturday (starting 1/3/25) for the winter.
always weather dependent* (*closed if snowing hard or if D.P.Rd. is a parking lot.)
We are a full Holiday and Plant Shoppe and we close 12/23 at 2:30pm. We were full of poinsettias, holiday bulbs, greens, wreaths, garland, and we had silvertip, nordmann, and noble fresh-cut Christmas trees. There are only a handful of very small cut trees left as of 12/22 and we have a few wreaths, garland, and greens left.
We do have a good selection of living spruce and fir, pruned for dense christmas-tree shape for outdoor pots or living Christmas trees. We have detailed instructions to insure your successes.
Truckee frequently sells-out of cut Christmas trees by the 22nd of December, occasionally even earlier. We’re always the last local source to sell-out. Many of our long-time clients avail themselves of our service to hold their ordered trees. We start taking orders JUST after Halloween. Due to space and snow management, we are only able to accommodate about 60 total tree orders.
While it is still great to plant trees, shrubs and bulbs ANYTIME you choose, few get round-to-it now. Plants are always happier in the ground than in pots. Always, the sooner you plant the better to gain as much root-growth as possible over our short seasons.
Villager Nursery outdoor areas are open late-winter (Mar-April) through late-December depending on snow persistence.
Through mid-winter, we maintain limited hours. Someone is usually here, IN the shop, most weekdays (paperwork & plants need attention). We don't want to let anyone down, so if you need something (plant, product, plans, bids, or consulting) or have questions, PLEASE send-us an e-mail as we check them almost every evening. We'll usually get back to you in a day or two or as soon as we possibly can. You can also call and leave a voice message at 530-587-0771. We tend to be rather busy in our compressed spring (May-June) season and replies may take a bit longer. contact us - (PLEASE DO NOT USE Facebook messenger. It is largely unmonitored). We begin to open with more expanded regular business hours, a few days a week, mid-March.
All the best!
Cheers!
Here's to Science, to Research, to Data, to Facts, to Kindness, to Sanity, to Truth.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Be nice.
We are a "Garden, Plant, and Soils" sort of shop full of healthy indoor and tropical houseplants, bulbs, indoor gardening gear, pottery, potting soils, organic fertilizers and nutrients, as well as seeds and seed-sprouting supplies. We also have every gardener's favorite present: gift certificates from your experienced local garden center.
Our hours change with the climatic seasons - always weather permitting. (Call ahead if it is dumping snow, if the exodus traffic is heinous, or if we've got pea-soup smoke, just-in-case we've gone home.) We change the hours here (on the website) and on independent Google, Yelp, Bing, Nextdoor, and Facebook sites. Apple gets its info "elsewhere", even apple is unsure where, so Apple Maps and Siri usually have wrong hours, for every business.
Check our Instagram or Facebook or the references page on this website for updates, informational sheets, class hand-outs and calendar updates.
For 50 years, Villager Nursery Garden Center has been serving Truckee, Tahoe and regional high Sierra mountain plant lovers, landscapers and gardeners. Villager Florist started in the original Gateway Center (next to the Gateway Motel) in 1951 (74 yrs). In 1975 (50 yrs) Jeanette Harper purchased the Villager Florist and added outdoor plants to the mix (becoming Villager Nursery). We relinquished the florist in 1996 to focus exclusively on the extreme winter-hardy, native plants, garden center summer color and vegetables, and landscape supply. In 1999 we moved to nursery to The home of Varney Dairy come McIver Dairy come Villager Nursery. The House was build in 1867 and the Shop (a blacksmith and then auto shop) was built in the 1930's. We are the third owners of the structures on this land.
Villager Nursery
Experienced High-Sierra guides. Here to help with gardening and landscaping in our very challenging growing conditions.
Located in Truckee, California
Our purpose, as always, is to remain the primary source for honest and reliable high-Sierra gardening information while offering the widest and most interesting variety of native, extreme climate, fascinating, showy and cold hardy plants, as well as the appropriate organic fertilizers and finest soil amendments available.
Our hope is only to give our clients everything they need to succeed and find satisfaction in their mountain planters, gardens and landscapes.
Seasonal Notes
Through mid-winter, we remain open a few days a week. Someone is usually here, IN the shop, most weekdays (paperwork, plants, cats, all need attention). We don’t want to let anyone down, so if you need something (plant, product, plans, bids, or consulting) or have questions, PLEASE send-us an e-mail as we check them almost every evening. We’ll usually get back to you in a day or two or as soon as we possibly can. You can also call and leave a voice message at 530-587-0771. contact us –
We begin to open with more expanded regular business hours, a few days a week, in March.
We are a “Garden, Plant, and Soils” sort of shop full of healthy indoor and tropical houseplants, bulbs, indoor gardening gear, pottery, potting soils, organic fertilizers and nutrients, as well as seeds and seed-sprouting supplies. We also have every gardener’s favorite present: gift certificates from your experienced local garden center.
Our hours change with the climatic seasons – always weather permitting. (Call ahead if it is dumping snow, if the exodus traffic is heinous, or if we’ve got pea-soup smoke, just-in-case we’ve gone home.) We change the hours here (on the website) and on independent Google, Yelp, Bing, Nextdoor, Tripadvisor, and Facebook sites. Apple gets its info “elsewhere”, even apple is unsure where, so Apple Maps and Siri usually have wrong hours, for every business, ALL the time.
Check Instagram or Facebook or the references page on this website for updates, informational sheets, class hand-outs and calendar updates.
Villager Nursery Garden Center has been serving Truckee, Tahoe, and regional high Sierra mountain plant lovers, landscapers and gardeners for 50 years. Villager Florist started in the original Gateway Center (next to the Gateway Motel) in 1951 (74 yrs). In 1975 (50 yrs) Jeanette Harper purchased the Villager Florist and added outdoor plants to the mix (becoming Villager Nursery). We relinquished the florist in 1996 to focus exclusively on the extreme winter-hardy plants, native plants, summer color and vegetables, and landscape suppies. In 1999 we moved to nursery to The home of Varney Dairy / McIver Dairy / Villager Nursery. The House was build in 1867 and the Shop (a blacksmith and then auto shop) was built in the 1930’s. We are the third owners of the structures on this land.
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Villager Soltice Season
Late December - Early January
Hours may vary close to Christmas
depending on sales, inventory and weather.
Open 12/23 10:00-2:00-ish
Closed 12/24/24 through 01/02/2025
Open Thursday - Saturday (starting 1/3/25) for the winter.
always weather dependent* (*closed if snowing hard or if D.P.Rd. is a parking lot.)
We are a full Holiday and Plant Shoppe and we close 12/23 at 2:30pm. We were full of poinsettias, holiday bulbs, greens, wreaths, garland, and we had silvertip, nordmann, and noble fresh-cut Christmas trees. There are only a handful of very small cut trees left as of 12/22 and we have a few wreaths, garland, and greens left.
We do have a good selection of living spruce and fir, pruned for dense christmas-tree shape for outdoor pots or living Christmas trees. We have detailed instructions to insure your successes.
Truckee frequently sells-out of cut Christmas trees by the 22nd of December, occasionally even earlier. We’re always the last local source to sell-out. Many of our long-time clients avail themselves of our service to hold their ordered trees. We start taking orders JUST after Halloween. Due to space and snow management, we are only able to accommodate about 60 total tree orders.
While it is still great to plant trees, shrubs and bulbs ANYTIME you choose, few get round-to-it now. Plants are always happier in the ground than in pots. Always, the sooner you plant the better to gain as much root-growth as possible over our short seasons.
Villager Nursery outdoor areas are open late-winter (Mar-April) through late-December depending on snow persistence.
Through mid-winter, we maintain limited hours. Someone is usually here, IN the shop, most weekdays (paperwork & plants need attention). We don't want to let anyone down, so if you need something (plant, product, plans, bids, or consulting) or have questions, PLEASE send-us an e-mail as we check them almost every evening. We'll usually get back to you in a day or two or as soon as we possibly can. You can also call and leave a voice message at 530-587-0771. We tend to be rather busy in our compressed spring (May-June) season and replies may take a bit longer. contact us - (PLEASE DO NOT USE Facebook messenger. It is largely unmonitored). We begin to open with more expanded regular business hours, a few days a week, mid-March.
All the best!
Cheers!
Here's to Science, to Research, to Data, to Facts, to Kindness, to Sanity, to Truth.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Be nice.
We are a "Garden, Plant, and Soils" sort of shop full of healthy indoor and tropical houseplants, bulbs, indoor gardening gear, pottery, potting soils, organic fertilizers and nutrients, as well as seeds and seed-sprouting supplies. We also have every gardener's favorite present: gift certificates from your experienced local garden center.
Our hours change with the climatic seasons - always weather permitting. (Call ahead if it is dumping snow, if the exodus traffic is heinous, or if we've got pea-soup smoke, just-in-case we've gone home.) We change the hours here (on the website) and on independent Google, Yelp, Bing, Nextdoor, and Facebook sites. Apple gets its info "elsewhere", even apple is unsure where, so Apple Maps and Siri usually have wrong hours, for every business.
Check our Instagram or Facebook or the references page on this website for updates, informational sheets, class hand-outs and calendar updates.
For 50 years, Villager Nursery Garden Center has been serving Truckee, Tahoe and regional high Sierra mountain plant lovers, landscapers and gardeners. Villager Florist started in the original Gateway Center (next to the Gateway Motel) in 1951 (74 yrs). In 1975 (50 yrs) Jeanette Harper purchased the Villager Florist and added outdoor plants to the mix (becoming Villager Nursery). We relinquished the florist in 1996 to focus exclusively on the extreme winter-hardy, native plants, garden center summer color and vegetables, and landscape supply. In 1999 we moved to nursery to The home of Varney Dairy come McIver Dairy come Villager Nursery. The House was build in 1867 and the Shop (a blacksmith and then auto shop) was built in the 1930's. We are the third owners of the structures on this land.