Fraxinus velutina Velvet Ash - Shop for Velvet Ash Trees

Las Pilitas Nursery
3232 Las Pilitas Rd
Santa Margarita, CA 93453

Phone: 805.438.5992
Fax: 805.438.5993
Email: pan@laspilitas.com
Interstate Stock Certificate (C6925) and USDA-APHIS SOD Certificate (40 C6925_001).

Velvet Ash is a small deciduous tree, ranging from Santa Barbara county south to San Diego county. It grows usually less than 30 feet tall and grows very fast. Velvet Ash needs regular water until it is established, then is quite drought tolerant. Velvet Ash is a good shade tree for southern California, and will live in Los Angeles with no care after two years. Velvet Ash likes full sun and can tolerate seasonal flooding. The name comes from the young twigs which, are puberulent and have the appearance and texture of velvet.

About the author Bert Wilson

Bert Wilson has a B.S. degree in chemistry (with all of the MS in chemistry but the 3 seminars and finishing the thesis). Also took Field Botany, Ecology and a bunch of other biology classes. Landscape Contractor, now inactive, Lic. 345678. Over thirty plus years have done mitigation, gardening, design work and grown a couple of million native plants. Responsible for much of the content of laspilitas.com and most of the misspleings.
Biology was a bunch of spelling tests, Chemistry and Math was not. So Celeste and Bert meet in a Biology and Chemistry class, but Celeste can spell so she got her M.S. in Biology, Bert got his degree in Chemistry. The 1980 recession stopped the finishing of his M.S. degree in Chemistry, and furthered his education on economy.
The interest in native plants came from Celeste working on her Senior Project and not being able to find the plants and Bert and Celeste attempting to grow them. Hey, they were gardeners, how hard could it be?