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Yarrow is an all-star, popular plant choice among California native gardeners, including beginners! It is durable and easy to grow in a wide range of soil types and has low moisture requirements. It reseeds and spreads quickly, making it a good groundcover plant for lawn replacement. -
Bladderpod (Cleomella arborea) This interesting and attractive plant is easy to grow from seed and makes a great hedge or a small focal point. The seed pods are unique and the flowers are abundant and loved by many pollinators. -
One of the best plants you can plant. Beautiful, resilient, medicinal, and culturally significant. White Sage is a valuable pollinator plant in the garden. The small white flowers are a favorite of carpenter bees, bumble bees, and hummingbirds. In Latin, "apiana" means of or belonging to bees. The blooms are accented by silvery-white foliage. -
Blue eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) A must have for a native garden, especially a meadow type setting. Blue eyed grass is not exactly blue, nor is it grass, it's actually in the iris family! It's flowers are usually a purple to violet color and when the flowers are gone it looks like an attractive decorative grass. -
Leafy Fleabane (Erigeron foliosus var. foliosus) A resilient, long flowering daisy with purple / lavender petals. Blooms late in Summer and will bloom again after being cut back. Blooms can be dried and will turn into attractive puff-ball type seed heads like dandelions. -
Rhus ovata, commonly known as sugar bush or sugar sumac, is a shrub or small tree found growing in the canyons and slopes of the chaparral and related ecosystems in Southern California, Arizona, Baja California and Baja California Sur. It is a long lived-plant, up to 100 years, and has dense evergreen foliage that make it conspicuous. It is closely related to and hybridizes with the lemonade sumac. -
CA Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) is one of the most hardy, drought resistant, and wildlife supporting plants you can add to your space! With beautiful white blooms that age to pink, maroon, rust, then brown, and foliage that looks like little pine needles, it is a gorgeous addition. -
Salvia leucophylla
Purple Sage is commonly found growing on dry, rocky slopes and hillsides along the southern California coast. It forms a large, spreading shrub that reaches 3 to 5 all around, sometimes growing even wider in coastal conditions. In spring, it blooms with whorls of pale purple to rose pink flowers on long inflorescences that hummingbirds cherish. Flowers are not typically a true purple color as the common name may imply. New foliage can have hues of green, before turning a soft grey color and then shrinking and turning silver-grey during the summer months. Plant in full sun to light shade inland. Summer deciduous so it should be watered sparingly over the summer (twice per month) or left to go dormant. Provides erosion control on slopes where it can tolerate clay soil. Prune lightly after flowering to maintain a more compact form. Flowers attract a variety of insects and butterflies, and seeds provide food for native birds. -
Penstemon pseudospectabilis
Desert Penstemon is native to southwestern United States where it grows in inland deserts and plateaus. It forms a shrub up to 3 feet wide and tall with large, serrated, blue-green foliage, similar to Penstemon spectabilis. Blooms mid to late spring with showy spikes of hot pink flowers that are highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Plant in full sun in sharply draining soil (preferably rocky or gravelly). While it will survive summer watering, it prefers infrequent to no supplemental irrigation once established.
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