Plants

Shoestring acacia

Please note: For most situations, we would not recommend installing this plant in new gardens, landscapes, or plantings in southern California. Depending on the situation and desired plant characteristics, our top recommendations of alternative trees to consider include Desert Museum palo verde, desert willow, pink chitalpa, and Catalina cherry. This plant profile is included in […]

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Cootamundra wattle

Please note: For most situations, we would not recommend installing this plant in new gardens, landscapes, or plantings in southern California. This plant profile is included in this site as a reference for two primary reasons: If you already have this plant in your landscape, this information can be used to know how to care

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Sticks on Fire

This is a popular container plant, as a focal element in succulent gardens, on banks and southwestern style plantings. Young plants are tender to frost and do best in warm and sunny microclimates. Like other Euphorbias, E. t. ‘Sticks on Fire’, has a poisonous sap that drips from cut stems and care must be taken

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Golden toothed aloe

The golden toothed aloe is a small but robust plant that grows 8-12 in. tall and forms mounding colonies that can reach 24-30 in. high and spread 3-4 ft. wide. Short stout leaves are deep green and covered with golden hooked teeth on the margins. Red-orange flowers occur on 6-12 in. tall stalks from late

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Lilac vine

The Lilac vine from Australia grows into a shrubby vine with woody and twining stems to 10-15 ft. long. Deep green leaves are long and lance-like in shape; showy clusters of intense purple pea-shaped flowers occur in late winter to early spring. The Lilac vine is a popular flowering evergreen vine choice for Inland Empire

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Spiny-headed mat rush + cv

The Spiny-headed mat rush is a clumping perennial growing with a symmetrical shape, 4-5 ft. tall and as wide. Medium green foliage is comprised of flat stiff leaves; 6-8 in. long flower spikes with fragrant yellow flowers occur in spring. Spiny-headed mat rush is native to southern and eastern Australia and Tasmania where it grows

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Dwarf flax lily

The Dwarf flax lily is an evergreen clumping perennial with pale green foliage, a stiff upright growth habit, 3-4 ft. tall and as wide. Leaves have sharply serrated margins; branched panicles of purple and yellow star-shaped flowers grow above the foliage in mid spring. Sometimes, colorful dark blue berries grow to 1/2 in. dia. and

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Kangaroo paws + cvs

Kangaroo paws are herbaceous perennials with strap-like leaves, a clumping growth habit and varying in size from 6-24 in. tall. Unique flowers are tubular in shape, fuzzy and can occur on branched or unbranched stems that grow several feet above foliage. Flower colors range from red, pink, green, yellow and orange, and make striking displays

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New Gold lantana

Please note: For most situations, we would not recommend installing this plant in new gardens, landscapes, or plantings in southern California. While lantana is a tough plant if it receives some irrigation, it tends to “overgrow” the space it is placed in in most residential situations. I blooms a lot, but many California native plants

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Australian tea tree + cvs

Please note: For most situations, we would not recommend installing this plant in new gardens, landscapes, or plantings in southern California. Our top recommendations to consider instead of this plant include toyon, sugar bush, and Dr. Hurd manzanita. This plant profile is included in this site as a reference for two primary reasons: If you

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