Projects
Recommended Plants and Trees:
Plant listings below contain the following information:
- Scientific Name listed first
- (Common Name in parentheses)
- CA N = California native
- US N = US native
- Comments
Trees
- Acer macrophyllum
- (Bigleaf maple)
- CA N
- for big parkstrips
- Circis occidentalis
- Western redbud
- CA N
- for small parkstrips
- Madrone
- CA N
- for big lots
- Quercus lobata
- Valley oak
- CA N
- for big parkstrips
- Umbellularia californica
- bay laurel
- CA N
- for small parkstrips
Plants for Sunny Areas
- Achillea millifolium
- WhiteYarrow
- CA N
- There are pretty hybrids in red colors as well.
- Armeria
- Sea pink or sea thrift
- CA N
- Needs to be planted in clumps, to show well and avoid being overwhelmed by other, larger plants.
- Artemesia pycnocephala
- "David's Choice" (Sandhill sage)
- CA N
- Aurinia sexatilis
- Basket of Gold
- US N
- Baccharis pilularis ‘Pigeon Point’ or ‘Twin Peaks’
- Cayote bush
- CA N
- Carex pansa and Carex tumicola
- Sedges
- CA N
- Camissonia cheivanthifolia
- Beach evening primrose
- CA N
- Dusty Miller
- Erigeron glaucus
- Beach aster
- CA N
- Eschscholzia
- CA poppy
- CA N
- Festuca idahoensis
- Idaho fescue
- US N
- Festuca rubra
- Red fescue
- CA N
- Gaura lindheimeri
- US N
- Koeleria macrantha
- Junegrass
- US N
- Monardella villosa
- (Cayote mint)
- Nepeta
- (Catmint)
- Penstemon
- CA/US N
- Rosmarinus
- (Creeping rosemary)
- Rudbehckia
- Black-eyed Susan
- CA/US N
- Salvia sonomensis
- Creeping sage
- CA N
- Thymus praecox arcticus
- (Creeping thyme)
- Thymus langinosus
- (Wooly thyme)
Plants for Shady Areas
- Heuchera
- Coral bells
- CA N
- Ribes viburnifolium
- Evergreen current
- CA N
- Kind of viney; spreads
- Salvia ‘Dara’s choice’
- Creeping sage
- CA N
- Sedum
- (stonecrop)
- US N
- Viola
- Johnny jump-ups
- CA/US N
- Satureja douglasii
- Yerba buena
- CA N
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