Meet Santa Barbara’s ‘Fruit Tree Guy’

Nat Weller at Pro Garden Supply Is a Wealth of Knowledge

Meet Santa Barbara’s
‘Fruit Tree Guy’

Nat Weller at Pro Garden Supply
Is a Wealth of Knowledge

By Tyler Hayden | Photos by Ingrid Bostrom
May 25, 2023

Pro Garden Supply operator Nat Weller grew crops as a kid in west Goleta and sold his harvests door-to-door. | Credit: Ingrid Bostrom

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Around these parts, Nat Weller is known as the “fruit tree guy.” Although his Milpas Street nursery — Pro Garden Supply — offers a full menu of plants and hardware, it’s the location’s small forest of potted stone fruits, citruses, and tropicals that really carved Weller’s niche. “I’m good with that,” he said.

A proud western Goletan, Weller was bitten by the horticulture bug as a kid, growing and selling his harvests door-to-door. He went to UC Davis and from there earned his professional landscaping stripes at La Sumida Nursery and then Agri-Turf Supplies. In 2004, he opened Pro Garden Supply and hasn’t looked back since. 

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In addition to their fruit trees, the nursery is chock-full of perennials, annuals, shrubs, cacti, succulents, herbs, and veggies. They carry bulk soils and mulch as well as a complete assortment of gardening tools and irrigation supplies. The location’s drive-through service is especially handy for bigger loads.

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