PlANT SHOP 805
Plant nursery
Cactus and succulents
rare and unusual
Plant Propagation
Our mission
Plant Shop 805’s mission is to grow and sell one-of-kind arid adapted plants in the Southern California plant market. We strive to help our community care for their indoor and outdoor plants in a sustainable and environmentally conscious way. We want our customers to get the most out of their landscapes by providing them with plant and garden products as an alternative to big box agriculture.
Plant Shop 805 combines expert plant knowledge with a passion for sustainability and stewardship.
Our story
Plant Shop 805 is owned and operated by three siblings born and raised in Ventura County, California. With many home gardeners on both sides of the family tree, we have a deep love of the local landscape and what can be grown here.
Lelah is the oldest of the three Baker-Rabe siblings, and contributes to operations from her home base in Connecticut, where she tends her native pollinator garden and encourages her neighbors to turn their lawns into meadows. She is also an author of contemporary romance novels under two pen names and teaches writing and publishing classes at the Westport Writers’ Workshop in Westport, CT.
Thomas is an expert in desert tropical plants and has worked as a professional gardener and arborist since 2009. He has been hybridizing plants since 2020 focusing on the genus aloe and various cactus species. Formerly the cactus and succulent gardener at Montecito’s landmark Lotusland, he is a charter member of the Ventura Botanical Garden and a member of the Santa Barbara Cactus and Succulent Society.
Pippa graduated from Women’s Economic Ventures SET program in 2019. She combines a background in museum education, fine art, and entrepreneurship at the plant shop. She is also a linocut printmaker and specializes in botantical prints.