The Chitalpa Butterfly Garden palette is centered on the Pink Dawn chitalpa tree and Desert willow tree. Pink Dawn chitalpa is hybrid between Catalpa bignonioides, Common catalpa, and Chilopsis linearis, Desert willow. Both of these trees are well suited to residential scale gardens and are appreciated for their flower colors and summer shade. They also have value in attracting hummingbirds and butterflies to the garden.
This garden palette is designed to offer a rich diversity of butterfly-attracting flowering plants for many sizes of residential spaces with many combinations of colors, textures and design uses. These plants can be combined with organic mulch, gravel or decomposed granite and help reduce the size of water needy lawns. This diversity helps achieve year around visual interest and habitat and food for birds and butterflies.
An online resource for you to learn about and choose the best plants for your inland Southern California landscape.
Promoting water conservation through education, stormwater capture, waterwise landscapes, and other initiatives.
We provide programs, services, and resources to serve audiences of all ages to cultivate a community-wide conservation ethic and build regional capacity for water resilience.
Choose between a list or map view of all signs found in our waterwise garden and park.
This is a digital registry created to offer further information on the physical signs in our waterwise garden and park premises.
Would you like a few tips on how to use this tool?
Using the map view, you can preview what each specific sign is about by tapping on the plus icon.
You can view these tips at any time by tapping the Help link in the top left.
