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. 

New Arrivals: Conifers! We recently received a shipment of unique and unusual conifers including Goldthread Mop Chamaecyparis, Picea omorika glauca nana in topiary form, Weeping Normway spruce, and Globe blue spruce. Also new are stunning Hakura variegated willows, Copper beech, Weeping birch, and new Japanese maples.

New Japanese Maples: Ryusen. This is one of the few weeping Japanese maples with palmate leaves. The branches fall gracefullly downward and are studded with star-like green leaves.  A great plant for a container or garden, this plant can also be used effectively as a striking landscape shrub cascading over a wall or as an unusual ground cover. This is a new variety and there really is no other Japanese maple like it. We offer small specimens in #3 pots for $49.95 and large specimens in #10 pots for $159.95. A great price for this great new maple. Other new maples include an unusual 'Contorta' variety with green leaves and a contortion of the branches, and many other Japanese maples, both familiar and new varieties.