Mid spring brings a froth of tiny lavender-pink flowers highly attractive to pollinators. Creeping and cascading habit, the small green woolly leaves form a flat carpet a couple inches high by 18 inches wide. This aromatic, low growing, mat forming perennial, has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Merit. One way to identify this species from the other native cedars is by the white butterfly shape on the back of the needles, created by stomatal bloom.
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One of the most shade tolerant of our native conifers, but will be happy in full sun, except in hot, interior climates. Looks best when the branches are allowed to touch the ground when young, allowing its elegant conical shape to be fully utilized. The needle-covered branches hang gracefully in fern-like cascades. tall in the garden and higher in its native habitat. A large tree over time, eventually reaching up to 90 ft. This stately conifer with deep green, scale-like needles and cinnamon-red bark, makes its home on the northern coast of California all the way up to Alaska. One way or the other it goes dormant in late summer where it can be allowed to go dry. Useful in the woodland garden where it will thrive with some summer water or manage on winter rainfall. The male flowers are showier with dangling cream-colored stamens the females are clusters of greenish pistils. The tiny unisexual flowers are produced atop 2 - 4 ft.
Finely cut bluish-green foliage unfurls from purplish shoots. This native meadowrue has charm and adds a delicate, graceful quality to a woodland setting. Plant in full sun to light shade with decent drainage. The flowers bloom almost year round and are a pollinator favorite. The silvery-white leaves and lavender-blue flowers of the bush germander make it a popular and sturdy choice for dificult situations where heat and drought make gardening dificult. This compact selection of bush germander only gets to about 5 ft. Teucrium fruticans - Cal Flora Form (bush germander) Good for sunny dry areas where they combine nicely with other drought tolerant plants such as lavenders, rock roses, Phlomis, etc. Upright silver foliaged evergreen shrub with wonderful azure blue flowers most of the summer. Teucrium fruticans 'Azureum' (bush germander) Requires decent drainage with moderate to occasional summer water once established. Narrow gray-green foiage is topped with dense clusters of rosy-lavender flowers, nearly the entire growing season. Teucrium cossonii (majoricum) (Majorcan teucrium)Ī beautiful little shrublet that hugs the ground to 2 ft. Dark green foliage topped with light magenta flowers in spikes. Tough, neat looking evergreen shrublet-good for hot dry places. These rise above the soft mounds of foliage 18 inches to 2 ft. Many small, urn-shaped flowers with tiny fringed petals open green and age to pink, line the slender flower stalks. Good for erosion control.įringe cups is a sweet native perennial for the shade garden.
Beautiful when combined with ceanothus, Douglas iris and other plants from our coastal areas. Dune tansy has a strong scent of camphor and is valued for its medicinal uses. Reducing irrigation can temper this tansy's somewhat aggressive nature. Tolerant of clay soils and excessive moisture but will thrive with only occasional water once established. Yellow, button-shaped flowers form small clusters atop stalks up to 2 ft.
Native to sand dunes from the Bay Area north, this shrubby evergreen groundcover spreads quickly to create drifts of soft fern-like foliage. Tanacetum bipinnatum (camphoratum) (dune tansy)
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