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Pearly everlasting This erect, short-lived, rhizomatous perennial grows to 3′ tall. Use in a perennial border, rock garden, or meadow landscape. Drought tolerant, but occasional summer water is best. Flowers make 2″ clusters of white button heads. Pearly white flowers dry nicely in a fashion similar to straw flowers. Silver gray color gives a contrast…
Yerba mansa This deciduous perennial is one of our favorite plants! It grows to a height of about 1 ft. and has beautiful white compound flowers in spring and early summer. Being a marsh plant, it requires a warm position with shallow water or a wet muddy humus-rich soil. It also performs best when allowed…
Coast Angelica Coast Angelica is a tall evergreen biennial or perennial adapted to a coastal garden. It grows to 3-4′ tall with large bold leaves. In the late spring through summer the umbel shaped white flowers appear and provide nectar and pollen to the delight of many pollinators. As the flowers age they become purple…
Woolly angelica This perennial herb makes a great specimen plant for any partially shaded garden. In full bloom Angelica can reach from 3 to 5 feet. Both the distinctive bold leaf patterns, and the umbrellas of fragrant white flowers are attractive to many beneficial insects. With their bold design Angelica is great as a back…
Hemp Dogbane Hemp dogbane is a deciduous, strong, erect perennial plant that reaches 3-4 ft. tall with a moderate growth rate. Often spreading aggressively from underground rhizomes. The small cream-colored flowers are clustered at branch ends or on stalks from leaf axils. They provide abundant nectar and are pollinated by moths, butterflies and many different…
Western columbine This 1-3′ tall short-lived perennial is great for butterfly and bird gardens. A good nectar source for hummingbirds, bees and butterflies. Other birds such as finches and sparrows eat the seeds. Combine with other partial shade plants such as California coffeeberry, giant chain fern, island alum root, Douglas iris, hummingbird sage, and currants….
Pacific madrone This evergreen tree averages 30 ft in height and a 25 ft spread. Space 25’0″ apart. Madrones are slow to moderate growing but are prized for their attractive reddish bark that peels to reveal blond wood underneath. White to pink urn-shaped flowers arrive in the spring followed by bright orange edible berries. This…
Emerald Carpet Manzanita This popular Manzanita, ‘Emerald Carpet’ is valued for its dense, deep green foliage and rapid spreading growth, up to two feet a year. It will grow to about 1′ tall and 6′ wide. Not a plant for heavy clay, it does well in most other soil types. A hybrid of two coastal…
Pink Manzanita This 8′ tall evergreen shrub will grow about as wide as tall. The bark is lovely dark maroon and in the late winter through early spring urn shaped clusters of pink flowers that cover the plant. This particular species is very clay tolerant and can also handle surpentine soil. It needs very little…
Sentinel manzanita One of the faster growing manzanitas, this cultivar of A. densiflora was selected for its overall height and spreading canopy reaching 10 by 8 feet. Very showy all year round with deep red bark, silvery foliage, and dense clusters of flowers in late winter. Great for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies. Tolerates heavy soils…
Eastwood’s manzanita Eastwood’s manzanita is a very uncommon, sprawling evergreen shrub. It typically grows up to 2 ft. tall in the garden and can double or triple in width. The foliage is more grayish-green than other manzanitas, the bark is a beautiful red, and the flowers are white. Once established it is both deer resistant…
Big Berry Manzanita Big berry Manzanita is an evergreen shrub to small tree, with red-brown bark, 7-10′ foot high and wide. Grows well in arid and near-desert climates. Needs little water, likes full sun. Tolerates salty soil and will grow in snow covered regions. Needs good drainage and garden water the first year, then quite…
Dr. Hurd manzanita Dr. Hurd grows into a tree-like shrub up to 15 feet tall. Often used as a specimen tree, this Manzanita is prized for its red, peeling bark and twisted branching patterns. It needs well-drained soil and full sun. It has clusters of white bell-shaped flowers from January through March. Good companion plants…
Paradise manzanita This manzanita is a true rock star in the plant world, and has gotten major horticultural attention in recent years due to it’s attractive flowers and variable foliage. Flowers color ranges from electric pink to pure white, and the foliage can range from slate blue to gray-green to dark green. Considered medium sized,…
Greenleaf manzanita Greenleaf manzanita is an evergreen, upright, mounding, slow growing shrub that grows up to 7 feet tall and wide. Space 4-6′ apart. The plentiful white to pink urn shaped flowers arrive in the winter through spring. The stems are reddish brown and shiny making the bark an attractive feature. The berries and structure…
Pointleaf Manzanita Pointleaf manzanita is an erect, evergreen, spreading shrub that grows to about 3-6′ tall and wide. Takes on a beautiful shape This shrub thrives in dry, shallow, acidic soils heavy with gravel and sand, and forms relationships with mycorrhizae to obtain extra nutrients and water. Excellent for both hummingbird and songbird gardens as…