This small spreading succulent brings the color blue into garden plantings in bold and attractive ways. Foliage is comprised of short cylindrical stems; it commonly reaches 6-8 in. high and can spread 1-2 ft. wide. and more. Blue chalksticks is a ground hugging plant that draws attention and creates special interest throughout garden spaces. It […]
The common buckwheat is one of our most common Southern California native plants across the Inland Empire. Many natural populations have been removed through urbanization, but this plant still has great value in residential gardens in wildlife plantings and among other native shrubs and perennials. The natural species grows 2-3 ft. high and 3-4 ft.
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Please note: For most situations, we would not recommend installing this plant in new gardens, landscapes, or plantings in southern California. Not only is it a relatively uninteresting plant, an insect called myoporum thrips has become a major problem for this plant in this region and often causes the decline or death of plants. While
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Purple ice plant is a loosely mounding shrub-like succulent, growing 15-18 in. tall, spreading several feet across and developing a base of woody stems over time. Three sided pale green leaves are lightly tinged with purple at their tips; flowers grow to 11/2 in. dia. and have intense purple petals with white centers. This is
Pink ice plant is a low and dense growing succulent, with a rambling habit, growing 10-12 in. high and spreading 24-30 in. across. Its pale blue-gray leaves are distinctly triangular in shape and have small pointed teeth on the margins. Pale rose colored flowers with yellow centers cover the plant in mid to late spring.
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, a few top flowering shrub recommendations to consider instead of sageleaf rockrose include California buckwheat, white sage, brittle bush, Santa Cruz Island buckwheat, and St. Catherine’s lace. Rockroses have escaped
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, a few top flowering shrub recommendations to consider instead of orchid rockrose include Allen Chickering sage, Baja fairy duster, brittle bush, Santa Cruz Island buckwheat, St. Catherine’s lace, and wooly
Snow-in-summer could easily be renamed to ‘Snow in Spring’. This soft textured plant grows quietly throughout the year until it reaches its peak flowering cycle during April and May. At this point, the fuzzy gray carpet of foliage becomes covered with a dense topping of white flowers, likened to a dusting of snow. Additional flowering
The Cigar plant brings the hummingbirds into our gardens with their profuse springtime red tubular flowers. It is a modest foliage plant that can be clipped and sheared to control its shape and size, and a garden knock-out when in flower. This flowering shrub is adaptable to many types of soil, and partial shade to
The False heather’s a petite shrub that grows 1-2 ft. high and 2-3 ft. wide, tiny bright green leaves are held in neat opposite pairs on outward growing branchlets. Small magenta flowers provide accent character within the foliage during the spring. It grows best in loam-type soils and with regular water throughout the year.
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