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I am opening a California Native Plant Center – it will be a hybrid (excuse the pun) of plant sales, merchandise, events, special events and demonstration gardens. I am in the California Floristic Province, so the plants will all be from that region, and in San Diego in particular. There is already a California Native Plant Society and several nurseries with ”Sage”, ”Coastal Sage” and other names like that. I love using that sage green color and would love to have a name that refers to it, but haven;t come up with anything yet. The botanical name for sage is salvia, which could easily be misspelled as SALIVA (so I won’t be doing that) and the other plants have long, unfamiliar names: acrtostaphylos, ceanothus, artemesia.

I posted this in the wrong part of this site, so please forgive!

Here are some ideas:

Sage Haven
Diego Sage
CalVia

Oooooh,

Sage Haven sounds good. So comforting.

Also, if I took Diego Sage and twisted it back into San Diego Sage – this would resonate with San Diegans because it is so alliterative with one of our two big universities: San Diego State. Can you hear that poetry?

CalVia sounds like something else here,,,will have to think about that one.

Thanks, Cynthia. This is fun, isn’t it?

The Garden Sage
Sage Green Gardens
CaliFlora
Diego Garden Center
Greenleaves
Black-eyed Susan’s (kidding!)

Ah, but I do have brown eyes – what about Brown-Eyed Susan – or is this too “personal” and not enough about the business?

Sage Green Gardens is good – one of the misperceptions about native gardens is that they are not very green. And green is used in two senses, both of which are important to me: ecologically and plant color.

+1 for Calvia!

The Source
Synthesis
Native Shade
Sagecoach
Sage Coach
All the World’s a Sage

Planet Sage

Sage Coach sounds good – but the old California stage coaches didn’t have much history here. I am going to research this.

Native Shade also sounds good. Or I could do Native Sage…

Go Native
Native Sage
Sage Station
Sageland
Sage Native
Native Plant Sage
Native Plant Guru (“guru” playing off the other meaning of “sage”)
Guru Sage
Guru Botanical
West Coast Sage
Sage Society
Sage Dream (playing off “sage green”)