Common
name: Frosty Blue or Mountain
Blue
Genus: Ceanothus Cultivar: Frosty Blue
Description/Care: Grows quickly to 6-8' feet tall and about as wide. Known for its flowers - a beautiful blue with dashes of white appearing in March-May. Once a month water after established.
Common name: Hummingbird Trumpet
Genus: Epilobium Species: canum Cultivar: Carmen's Gray
Description: An evergreen perennial with summer-time red tubular flowers
Special Uses/Qualities: Hummingbirds love this plant.
Common name: Deer Grass
Description/Care: A fast growing 3' perennial with 2' plumes rising above the plant. Native to much of Calif. up into the mountains. Give them sun and enough water to bring the rainfall to 15 inches/year after the first month or so of regular water.
Special Uses/Qualities: Commonly used for making baskets by the Native Americans.
Common name:
Island Snapdragon
Genus: Galvezia
Species: speciosa Cultivar: "Boca Rosa"
Common
name: Bush Monkey Flower
Genus: Mimulus Species: aurantiacus
Description/Care: These small shrubs become totally covered with apricot flowers in the late spring, and grow in full sun or some shade. It will not tolerate much summer water and needs excellent drainage. Allow it to go semi-dormant in late summer by refusing to irrigate more than every few weeks, even if it looks dry.
Common name:
Island Snapdragon
Genus: Galvezia
Species: speciosa Cultivar: "Boca Rosa"
Common name: Hummingbird Trumpet
Genus: Epilobium Species: canum Cultivar: Carmen's Gray
Common name: Berkeley Sedge
Genus: Carex Species: tumulicola
Common name: Carmel Mountain Lilac
Genus: Ceanothus Species: griseus Variety: horizontalis Cultivar: Yankee Point
Common name(s): Western Redbud .
Genus: Cercis Species: occidentalis
Description/Care: Deciduous shrub to small tree that grows to 14'. Amazing magenta flowers, Feb.-April. Native on dry slopes (usually next to a spring or seasonal creek), coast ranges and Sierra foothills to 4500'. Its reddish-purple seed pods hang on tree in winter. Likes full sun, some summer water for faster growth.
Special Uses/Qualities: Flowers and young pods are edible.
Common
name: Cedros Island Verbena
Genus: Verbena Species: lilacina Cultivar: "De La Mina"
Common name(s): Sea Breeze Seaside Daisy
Genus: Erigeron Species: glaucus Cultivar:
Sea Breeze
Common name: Mountain Lilac
Genus: Ceanothus Cultivar: Ray Hartman
Description/Care: An upright, evergreen shrub with light to medium blue flowers in 6" flower spikes. It grows quickly to 10' in about 18 months. Very drought tolerant.
Common name: California Wax Myrtle
Genus: Myrica Species: californica
Common name: Coyote Mint
Genus: Monardella Species: villosa
Description/Care: A 2' tall perennial with gray-green leaves and light purple clusters of flowers in summer. Native to the California coast ranges. Coyote mint likes part shade to sun and is drought tolerant but takes garden water if given perfect drainage.
Special Uses/Qualities: Smells like a minty toothpaste. Was used by the Spanish as a treatment for sore throats. Butterflies use this plant as a nectar source.
Common
name: California Buckwheat
Genus: Eriogonum Species: fasciculatum Variety:
foliolosum
