Welcome to the Lakes Nursery!

Lake's Nursery offers the largest selection of Japanese maples in Northern California. Our five acre nursery has been in business for over thirty years and is located in the Sierra Nevada Foothills at 8435 Crater Hill Road, Newcastle, California 95658. We have decades of experience with Japanese maples and can help you select the perfect specimen for your garden as well as offering advice in care, placement, planting, pruning, watering, and problems. We have several demonstration gardens on our grounds including a Japanese garden with a 28,000 gallon koi pond and are in the process of developing additional gardens. We're open every day from 9-5. Our number is 530-885-1027.

We stock over 60 varieties of bamboo including both spreading and non-spreading varieties. In additon, we have mature groves on our acreage that we harvest and propagate. Visitors are welcome to stroll through these groves. We can help you choose a bamboo for your garden and can offer advice on containment, placement, planting, watering, and care.

We also stock a wide variety of trees and shrubs for your garden and landscaping needs, including unusual specimens and unique varieties. We're plant enthusiasts and can assist you with your quest for that special variety that you saw, or offer advice on more utilitarian and basic gardening advice. We sell distinctive garden art, benches, pottery, and whimsical items for your garden. 

Spring News: The first Japanese maples are leafing out! A few of the dwarf varieties like Kiyo Hime and Koto Maru lead the parade. Closely following are Ueno Yama, Katsura, Orange Dream, and Calico which leaf out early with daffodil yellow leaves with orange-rimmed margins, like orange and lemon sherbets. Coral leafed varieties like Shin DeShojo, Corallinium, and Chishio Improved leaf out in bright shrimp-pink colors in early spring also. Within a month, nearly all of the Japanese maples will have leafed out. In addition, this is the season for spring flowering shrubs like flowering quince, forsythia, azaleas, lilacs, etc. in addition to flowering fruit trees like flowering cherries, weeping cherries, flowering plums, flowering pears, as well as redbuds and other trees. Lake's Nursery is park-like this time of year and visitors are encouraged to bring a sack lunch and stroll around the tranquil grounds.

New Arrivals: New Japanese Maples!!! Lots of new 1g Japanese maples including Akane, Adrian's Compact, Beni Maiko, Coonara Pygmy, Elizabeth, Green Filagree, Hana Matoi, Jiro Shidare, Kamagata, Kandy Kitchen, Matthew, Olson's Pink Strawberry, Orome Zukora, Tiny Tim. There are too many for a complete listing here!  Also, 5g Dogwoods, Harry Lauder's Walking Stick, new spring-flowering shrubs, Encore Azaleas (a repeat bloomer!). Recent shipment of garden art including handcrafted turtles, frogs, bird baths, and more.

Other New Additions: We now offer sod at excellent prices.