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Bush Beardtongue Keckiella is a low, bushy sub-shrub has many wandering branches, growing to 3′ high. It is native to many of the mountain ranges and foothills of central California. It has small, shiny, narrow-toothed green leaves and Purple-striped, white tubular flowers during midsummer (April – July). A good plant for tough situations along the…
Heart Leaved Keckiella Heart leaved keckiella is a fast growing, summer deciduous shrub that grows about 3′ tall and 3 feet wide. Known to do some spreading and climbing. In the spring and into summer this shrub will be aflame with tubular red orange flowers perfect for feeding humming birds. Best planted among evergreen shrubs…
Rice Cutgrass Rice cut grass, a quick growing rhizomatous perennial grass grows from 2-4′ tall. The leaves of Rice cut grass form a very rough minutely toothed edge that makes it unpalatable to many herbivore mammals. Its a great grass to add to bioswales where there is a need to fill in. The seeds provide…
Pitcher sage This semi-evergreen shrub grows to 3′ tall and 4-5′ wide and is best known for its soft and hairy, strongly fragrant leaves and long racemes of showy white flowers blushed with lavender. Plant performs beautifully when massed along a path with California poppies, Blue-eyed grass, and Mules ears. This plant is drought tolerant,…
Fragrant pitcher sage A small evergreen shrub up to 3 feet tall with a 2 foot spread. Giving it some summer water will help to retain the leaves. Fragrant pitcher sage has attractive flowers and the most pleasing scent. The fragrant showy, lavender flowers are produced along lax 1 to 2′ long flower clusters. To…
Elise Mix Lewisia Lewisias are found in the sub-alpine regions of CA where the soil is rocky, making them perfectly suited for a well-drained rock garden. This evergreen perennial grows from a rosette of fleshy foliage and produces spectacular funnel-shaped flowers that emerge from 10” stems. The flowers also attract hummingbirds. The better drainage, the…
Lewisias are found in the subalpine regions of CA where the soil is rocky, making them perfectly suited for a well-drained rock garden. This evergreen perennial grows from a rosette of fleshy foliage and produces spectacular funnel-shaped flowers that emerge from 10” stems. The flowers also attract hummingbirds. The better drainage, the happier they are….
Lewisia Little Peach Lewisias are found in the sub-alpine regions of CA where the soil is rocky, making them perfectly suited for a well-drained rock garden. This evergreen perennial grows from a rosette of fleshy foliage and produces spectacular funnel-shaped flowers that emerge from 10” stems. The flowers also attract hummingbirds. The better drainage, the…
Siskiyou lewisia Lewisias are found in the subalpine regions of CA where the soil is rocky, making them perfectly suited for a well-drained rock garden. This evergreen perennial grows from a rosette of fleshy foliage and produces spectacular funnel-shaped flowers that emerge from 10” stems. The better drainage, the happier they are. Prefers light shade…
Nevada Lewisia Lewisia nevadensi has almost stemless white or pale pink flowers open on very short stems above a rosette of fleshy, strap-shaped leaves. This unusual plant is a deciduous lewisia, that is, it dies away to a tuber in the winter, then in the spring reappears! It is perfectly suited for a well-drained rock…
California honeysuckle A climbing deciduous shrub with large pink flowers. Very drought tolerant and good in shady areas of the garden. Its pink flowers are used by hummingbirds. The red berries are eaten by birds. Great plant for around oaks with snowberry, coffeeberry and toyon. Pink flowers spring-summer, red berries late summer through fall.
Black twinberry A deciduous shrub, 6′ – 8′ tall. Native to the California coast. It has formal looking dark green foliage. In spring, this shrub produces pairs of small, tubular yellow flowers. It is even showier when it produces two bright black berries surrounded by red bracts. It has the appearance of two dark eggs…
Chapparral honeysuckle Chaparral honeysuckle is an evergreen shrub that grows 3′ to 8′ tall. A tidy honeysuckle with handsome arching stems that climb with support. Good for climbing a low fence. Grows at the drip line of oaks, spreading to cover much of the ground in the shade of the tree. Hummingbirds, bees and butterflies…
Silver bush lupine This easy to grow perennial shrub grows 3-5’ tall and is very drought tolerant. Terrific choice for a rock garden, dry border, or plant in a large container. Plant in full sun and lean, well-drained soil. Excellent for a low maintenance rock garden or parking strip. Attracts bees, butterflies and birds. Host…
Blue Bush Lupine This purple-flowered shrub is an uncommon form of the typically yellow-flowered Bush Lupine (Lupinus arboreus). Blue bush lupine is a fast growing, evergreen shrub that grows to 3-6′ tall and 3-4′ wide. Tall spires of fragrant purple flowers cover this shrub in the spring through summer. Providing nectar for the Arrowhead Blue…
Beach blue lupine Beach blue lupine is a fast growing, bushy low shrub growing 4-6 feet tall and 3 feet wide. It is endemic to California where it naturally grows in sand dunes and other coastal habitats. The 4″ light purple flowers off set by the silvery leaves appear in the spring. The large flowers…