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Sierra bush monkeyflower Azalea-flowered monkeyflower is a low growing evergreen sub-shrub that grows to about 2′ tall and wide. There is no mistake in this variety name as this smallish shrub packs on a floristic punch. During the spring through fall it will be covered in large pale apricot flowers. These flowers also attract the…
Southern Monkeyflower Southern Monkeyflower is a small sub- shrub that grows 1-3′ tall. The tubular flowers are lighter colored compared to our local sticky monkey flower that varies from light orange to yellow. A little shade bit of summer water will keep it more attractive and it will flower for months and months. Dead heading…
Red Bush Monkeyflower Red Monkeyflower is a small, fast-growing shrub that reaches about 2′ tall. This southern cousin differs from our local orange flowered monkeyflower by producing bright red flowers. This glorious trumpet shaped flowers can last for most of the year (depending on rainfall pattern). This is great news for the humming birds that…
Mock heather Mock heather or California goldenbush is a small mounding, evergreen shrub that grows to about 3 feet tall and 3-4 feet wide. The golden colored flowers cover the plant in late summer into fall providing late season color, pollen and nectar. It grows best in sandy soils as it’s native to sand dunes….
Narrowleaf goldenbush Narrowleaf goldenbush is a small shrub that grows 3 ft tall and even wider, with countless flowers about 3/4 in across. This busy aster shrub with radiant yellow daisy flowers will grow well in any sunny garden. Easy to maintain with minimal water, and once established totally drought tolerant. You’ll definitely get a…
Yerba santa Yerba santa is an evergreen shrub that grows to about 5-7 feet tall and about 4′ wide. The leaves are edible and can be made into a tea. It is very drought tolerant and grows well with Oaks, Mountain mahogany, Ceanothus and Manzanitas. It can be grown to create a hedge. The blue-pink…
Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat is an evergreen shrub with a moderate growth rate. It grows from 2-7 feet tall and 2-9 feet wide. It’s extremely drought tolerant, and after it is established and exposed to drought-stressed in the summer, the plant still looks beautiful. Sun: Full Sun Water: Dry, Light Soil: Clay, Loam, Sand…
California buckwheat This fast-growing, long-lived evergreen shrub is found throughout the foothills of California, usually on fairly dry slopes. If forms a nice mound 2-3′ tall and wide. Space 3’0″ apart. The cream-colored flowers bloom April – September then turn rusty pink as they dry. A favorite of butterflies and honeybees! This is an excellent…
St. Catherine’s lace Eriogonum giganteum grows to 4’ tall x 5’ wide with attractive wooly, gray, oval leaves. It is the largest of the Buckwheats. It’s also one of the most popular nectar sources for many butterflies, especially the California Blues & Hairstreaks. The profuse clusters of small white flowers start blooming in April and…
Red-Flowered Buckwheat An attractive low sub-shrub that rows in low mounds to approx. 2′ tall x 10″ wide. The buckwheats are very important butterfly plants and one of the pillars of their plant communities, but deer like to browse on them so keep them protected. Red-flowered buckwheat is one of the showiest of the buckwheats. …
Buckwheat This small, flowering, perennial shrub grows 6″-1′ high with cotton ball-like flowers on taller, naked stalks in late spring/early summer. An excellent choice for rock gardens. The basal rosette of flat green leaves gives rise to tall leafless stems topped with rounded clusters of white or pale pink or yellow flowers. Plant needs excellent…
Seaside Woolly Sunflower Seaside Woolly Sunflower, also named lizard tail, is a compact shrub that grows to about 3′ tall and 3′ wide. It is perfect in a coastal garden, and picture perfect partnered with coastal Lupines & Coyote Brush. A wonderfully easy to grow sub-shrub found along the coast where the gray foliage becomes…
Apache plume Apache plume is a fast growing deciduous or semi-evergreen medium sized shrub. It is native to the southwestern US and northern Mexico in desert woodlands and scrub. It grows 2-6 feet tall and spaced at 4-6 feet apart. This super showy shrub is drought tolerant has a bit of a unkempt look prior…
Desert Olive Desert Olive is a deciduous shrub to tree that grows to 5′-10′ tall and 4′-5′ wide, often forms thickets in moister areas of otherwise dry environments, frequently mixing with oaks. Space 4-6 ft apart. These plants have an erect development. In the lower part they usually show a bare stem, while towards the…
California coffeeberry An evergreen shrub that grows fast to 6-8’. It is called coffeeberry because its berries contain seeds which look like coffee beans. Coffeeberry is an excellent foliage plant with showy fruit. It’s branches take on a beautiful reddish color and has beautiful deep green lustrous leaves, well suited to pruning and landscape work. …
Eve Case Coffeeberry Eve Case is an evergreen shrub that grows more compact than the common coffeeberry species. It will typically grow no more than 6′ tall but can get to 10′ when mature It grows in a mound and can spread 8-10 feet. Its compact form can give it a more refined or formal…