Holiday Greenery Christmas Trees is now open at Almaden Valley Nursery, featuring the fresh, high-quality, grower-direct trees you have become accustomed to. In addition to offering Noble Fir and Grand Fir, Holiday Greenery is one of the only retail locations in all of the Bay Area to offer Fraser Fir.

New this year is the Nordman Fir, the best selling Christmas tree in the UK and Europe. The Nordman comes from the Caucusus Mountains separating Turkey from Russia and makes a wonderful cut tree.

We are currently receiving weekly shipments into the Nursery. Delivery is available for a nominal fee. We invite you to come visit us at the nursery and look forward to seeing you this holiday season.

The California Wax Leaf Myrtle is a clean, attractive, easy-to-grow plant. It makes a valuable addition to any garden with its shiny green foliage and spring-flowering white blooms, followed by fragrant berries. Better yet, it does just fine in either sun or shade locations, and handles normal garden watering.

It can be kept to a height of 8 feet with yearly pruning, making it a lovely, carefree, informal hedge or screen. Left alone, it can grow as tall as 20 feet, creating a pleasant centerpiece as well. What's not to like? See the California Wax Leaf Myrtle for yourself as our featured plant in the Collector's Corner at Almaden Valley Nursery.

If you're looking for unique and tasteful ways to decorate your home for the Christmas holidays, we invite you to visit the Christmas Shop at Almaden Valley Nursery. We offer distinctive and attractive holiday items you won't find anywhere else. Whether for artificial Christmas trees, ornaments, gifts or home décor, we invite you to make our garden center your home for the holidays.

Artificial Christmas Trees

Christmas Ornaments

Christmas Gifts and Home Décor

Celebrate the season in style with our Designer Poinsettias. You can be traditional or revolutionary — we give you plenty of options! Are you in the mood for spots or stripes? No problem. Feeling blue? Yes, we have blue poinsettias. Unique poinsettias are our specialty!

In addition to a large selection of red, pink, salmon, white and marble-colored plants, we also have unique varieties with deep red flowers and silver-white spots, as well as speckled peach and burgundy colors.

Late fall and winter weather often brings a natural cleanup, but unless you prepare for it, it can also cause damage. Open up spaces in dense trees. Allow the wind to pass through — a full tree with no gaps in it acts like a sail on a mast. A strong wind may capsize it, especially if the ground is wet. Remove dead and weak branches.

Make sure young trees are well staked. Tie them loosely, so they can move back and forth in the wind without being toppled. Trees need to flex in wind in order to develop strong trunks. When using wire for tying, run it through a section of old hose so it doesn't damage bark. Check all staked trees now to make sure no wires are restrictive. Once trees have become well rooted, remove the stakes and wires, so bark doesn't grow over them.

Prune top-heavy shrubs:
Cut back top-heavy shrubs, such as acacia. Where it is necessary, remove whole branches to allow the wind to pass through. Head back young shrubs to force branching and strengthen their trunks.

Prune cane berry plants:
Prune selected cane berry plants, including blackberry, boysenberry, loganberry, and spring-bearing raspberry. Cut the old canes down to the ground, leaving new ones that grew this year. On fall-bearing raspberry plants (which only grow well in the mountains) cut off the top of the cane that has borne fruit. Leave the bottom of the cane to fruit in spring.

For those in warm areas — don't prune the canes of subtropical (low-chill) raspberries, like Oregon 1030, San Diego, Baba Berry, and Fallgold. These are the only kinds of raspberry to grow in warm climate zones, and all of them produce their best berries on new wood. Wait until December or January, then prune these by cutting them nearly to the ground. Dig up the suckers to make new rows.

Almaden Valley Nursery is the place to find fresh Christmas wreaths, holiday door swags, candle rings, centerpieces, decorative arches and garlands. They will be available on Friday November 25th, with fresh, refrigerated shipments arriving on a weekly basis.

Our wreaths are made with noble fir or mixed greens, are available in 20", 22", 24", and 32" sizes, and are available plain or with cones and berries. Our mixed and cedar garlands come in 75 ft. rolls and can be purchased by the foot.

Our hand-made Christmas wreaths and decorations have become popular and tend to sell out early.

Can't decide what to get that special person in your life? Stop fooling around and get the gift everyone is asking for: the totally awesome Almaden Valley Nursery Gift Certificate! The person you purchase it for will be forever grateful for receiving such a wonderful and incredible gift! Totally awesome AVN Gift Certificates are available in any amount, for any budget.

Michael was born in a hospital and spent his youth growing up in the Windy City. You'll never find him auditioning for American Idol, as his worst subject in school was Choir.

Michael graduated from the University of Hawaii and has held some unique jobs, including working at the M&M Mars Candy Company and as a fishing guide at Lake of the Woods in Canada.

He has always been a straight arrow and in his spare time enjoys fishing, gardening, and more fishing.

My Celebrity Service staff and I look forward to serving you this year. We'll go out of our way to make your day!

Matt Lepow - President