Maximizing Your Space with California Friendly Plants

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1 Maximizing Your Space with California Friendly Plants See pricing, information, and more pictures of all plants featured in this video! Click on the name of the plant you want to view or click the View Plants > button. Shopping List 1. Echium candicans Pride of Madeira 2. Phormium tenax Jack Spratt Jack Spratt New Zealand Flax 3. Ceanothus griseus hor. Yankee Point Ceanothus Yankee Point 4. Eschscholzia californica California Poppy 5. Salvia leucantha Mexican Sage 6. Bougainvillea Bougainvillea 7. Aeonium arboreum Parasol Aeonium 8. Anigozanthos flavidus Kangaroo Paws 9. Achillea Moonshine Yarrow 10. Brugmansia X Charles Grimaldi Angel s Trumpet New Zealand Flax Featured Plant of the Month

2 $18 Echium candicans Pride of Madeira Mature specimens of this evergreen shrub can grow to a size of 6-8 tall and 8-10 wide. In the spring, spikes of blue-purple flowers appear above the gray green foliage. Shrub Attracts Bees, Poisonous 3-12 Low 3-12 Clay, Rocky Blue, Purple $7 Phormium tenax Jack Spratt Jack Spratt New Zealand Flax Phormium Jack Spratt is an evergreen perennial. This variety is a dwarf, reaching 18 tall and wide. It is fan-shaped and clumping. The leaves are burgundy bronze in color and make a great border plant. Ground Cover, Brown,, Perennial Orange, Green Low, Medium Unusual Foliage Year Round Loam APRIL SHOPPING LIST

3 Ceanothus griseus hor. Yankee Point Ceanothus Yankee Point $8 Yankee Point is a fast growing shrub that stays near 3 in height with a spread of It has large, bright green, evergreen leaves. During spring, light blue flowers cover the plant. Yankee Point is great for banks and mass plantings. It Shrub, Ground Cover Green Low, Very Low 6-12 Blue Sandy, Loam, Rocky, Unparticular $6 Eschscholzia californica California Poppy This small annual (sometimes acts as a perennial) plant will grow to less than 1 tall and has light, small blue green leaves with gold and orange flowers that bloom in spring and summer. Annual Blue Green, Under 1 Medium, Summer Orange, Gold Sandy, Clay, Loam, Rocky, Unparticular, Summer

4 $18 Salvia leucantha Mexican Sage The Mexican Sage is a bushy shrub that grows 3-4 tall and wide. It has hairy white stems, grey-green leaves and velvet-like purple flower spikes that bloom summer through fall. This shrub tolerates sun, light shade, and little water. Shrub 3-6 Low 3-6 Summer, Fall Sandy, Clay, Loam, Rocky, Purple Unparticular Summer, Fall $22 Bougainvillea Bougainvillea The large amount of flamboyant color on this species creates a wonderful accent in a garden. It is a hardy and reliable vine, blooming bright red from spring through fall, sometimes even in winter in mild climates. Shrub, Vine Dark Green Full Regular Fall Color, 25-40, Summer, Fall Loam Red, Pink, Summer, Fall APRIL SHOPPING LIST

5 $7 Aeonium arboreum Parasol Aeonium Parasol Aeonium is an upright succulent with rosette leaf clusters. It forms a mound and can be easily propagated by cuttings. Succulent Green, Light Green, Shade Attracts Bees Under Low Unusual Shape Sandy, Loam, Rocky $18 Anigozanthos flavidus Kangaroo Paws This evergreen perennial forms clumps, 4-6 tall and 1-2 wide. From spring until fall emerge the bright yellow tubular flower buds that flare open at tips like a paw, blooming from spring through fall. Perennial Green, Dark Green 3-6 Medium Fall Colors,, Summer, Fall Sandy, Loam, Rocky, Summer, Fall

6 $7 Achillea Moonshine Yarrow Long, straight stems with pale yellow flowers are striking on the mats of green to gray-green leaves of this plant, which are flatter and less divided than those of the Achillea millefolium. Perennial Full Very Low, Low, Summer Sandy, Loam, Summer $24 Brugmansia X Charles Grimaldi Angel s Trumpet A tender, subtropical shrub that grows to 12, the Angel s Trumpet shows conspicuoulsy toothed leaves and enormous, pendant trumpet-shaped flowers of a deep yellow color with tails. Shrub 6-12 Medium Fragrance, Unusual Shape 6-12 Fall Sandy, Loam Fall APRIL SHOPPING LIST