What makes our nursery special!
Little Leaves Nursery is a small, locally rooted nursery located in Hotchkiss, Colorado. We specialize in growing healthy vegetable starters that are well suited to our unique North Fork Valley climate. Each plant is carefully started and nurtured to ensure strong roots, sturdy growth, and a smooth transition into your garden.
As a small family-run nursery, we take pride in offering thoughtfully grown plants and a personal touch. Whether you’re planting a backyard vegetable garden for the very first time or returning for the season, we’re here to help you grow with confidence.
Our Best Sellers
These large, luscious beauties offer old-fashioned tomato taste for sandwiches and salads. They remain firm when ripe, so you can slip a slice into your favorite summer sandwich, BLT or burger and savor the rich, succulent, sweet taste. The vigorous compact plants load up with dozens of fruit at a time, a bounty continuing from midsummer to early fall. This type of tomato is indeterminate and it is of the beefsteak variety. Comes in a pack of 1.
Light Requirement: Full sun
Mature Height: 30-36 in.
Maturity Spread: 18 in.
Fruit Size: 10 oz..
‘Pesto Party’ is the latest-flowering basil from seed, letting you enjoy a preponderance of aromatic fresh-picked leaves deep into the season. Basking prettily in your favorite patio container, well-branching plants produce a continuing flourish of fragrant leaves infused with sweet Italian basil flavor. Late-to-bolt plants are paragons of tolerance to downy mildew—no other basil comes close. Comes in a pack of 4.
Light Requirement: Full sun
Mature Height: 18-24 in.
Maturity Spread: 12-18 in.
This Burpee-bred squash has golden yellow fruits with smooth, tender skin. Its extremely productive and best picked when 4-6" long. Proven tops for performance, flavor and wide adaptability. Summer squash and zucchini ripen early and are highly productive. The bush type plants take little space. Comes in a pack of 1.
Light Requirement: Full sun
Mature Height: 24-30 in.
Maturity Spread: 36-48 in.
Fruit Size: 8-10 in.
Our Services
At Little Leaves Nursery, we grow strong, healthy plants right here in the North Fork Valley. Every seedling is carefully started, nurtured, and acclimated to our local climate so it’s ready to thrive in your garden. With vegetable starts of all different varieties, we focus on quality, resilience, and plants you can feel confident putting in the ground.
Because we’re a small, locally rooted nursery, we’re able to give our plants the attention they deserve — and offer our customers a more personal experience.
We also provide convenient local delivery to make gardening even easier. Whether you're short on time or simply prefer plants delivered to your door, we’ll coordinate a delivery time that works for you. Our goal is to help your garden grow — without adding extra stress to your day.
Healthy plants. Local roots. Delivered with care.
Schedule a Delivery
Our local delivery process is simple and designed to make getting your plants easy and convenient. When placing your order online, you’ll select your preferred delivery date, time and location from the link provided at checkout under the “delivery info” section. Once your order is received, we’ll review it and confirm the details to ensure everything is scheduled smoothly. On delivery day, your plants will be carefully transported and dropped off at the agreed-upon location. We take care to handle every plant gently so it arrives healthy and ready for planting. If any scheduling adjustments are needed, we’ll communicate promptly to keep the process stress-free and reliable from start to finish. If you have trouble scheduling a delivery or your zip code is not in our system, please feel free to email us and we can get you in our schedule manually.
