I went to V&N Nursery in Venice, CA recently. The staff is friendly and helpful. The grounds are clean and organized. This is definitely a nursery for succulent gardeners and collectors. Nothing is tagged with a price or plant ID so you have to ask how much everything costs. Their prices are pretty fair. I would still stand behind the "if you can buy a plant at Home Depot, then do it" rule because they usually have the lowest prices and the plants are guaranteed for a year. Their webpage is not helpful at all other than to get their address. The nice thing here is that it's usually very cool weather here since it's very near to the beach. San Diego has some awesome succulent gardens but boy are they scorching especially in the summer.
This is an interesting vertical succulent frame display they made.
They have a few decent succulent arrangements on display.
They sell some decorative gravel and rocks for potting arrangements and terrariums.
Succulents are good for relieving itching.
Everyone needs a giant dinosaur in their garden.
They carry several landscape sized plants including these large golden barrels that grow super slow.
The quality that makes this nursery stand out is the fact that they have some nice landscape sized plants for decent prices. I mean plants that are probably not going to randomly show up at the Home Depot. These include a Aloe barbarae, Aloe marlothii, Aloe ramosissima, and Yucca rostrata. There are probably several more. They also have Totem Pole cactus but that seems to be expensive everywhere unless you buy a tiny piece. There are no discounted bargain bin plants here. Overall, this is a pretty good nursery for succulents in the L.A. area that I've been to with a decent selection and prices.
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