Randi’s Plant Palettes (PDF from YouTube Design Talk)
EXAMPLE PLANTING PALETTES
Hidden Valley
Oak Woodland- Grassland – Riparian
Achillea millefolium / yarrow / (1 – 3 ft tall, .5 – 2 ft wide)
Carex pansa / sand dune sedge / ( .7 – 1 ft tall)
Ceanothus ‘Valley Violet’ / valley violet ceanothus / (1 – 2 ft tall, 3 – 4 ft wide)
Clinopodium douglasii / yerba buena / (3 – 7 in tall, 3 ft wide)
Juncus patens / common rush / (1 – 3 ft tall, 3 ft wide)
Melica imperfecta / small flowered melica / (3 – 4 ft tall, 1 ft wide)
Muhlenbergia rigens / deergrass / (4 – 5 ft tall, 4 ft wide)
Penstemon ‘Margarita Bop’ / (1 – 2 tall)
Quercus berberidifolia / Scrub Oak / (15 – 20 ft tall, 15 ft wide)
Quercus engelmannii / Engelmann Oak / (32 – 66 ft tall, 90 ft wide)
Salvia leucophylla / purple sage / (2 – 5 tall, 3 – 10 ft wide)
Sisyrinchium bellum / blue eyed grass / (1 -2 tall, 2 in wide)
Solidago californica / California Goldenrod / (1 – 5 ft tall)
Desert View
Desert
Agave bracteosa / squid agave / (2 – 4 ft tall, 2 – 3 ft wide)
Artemisia tridentata / big sagebrush / (3 – 5 ft tall, 10 ft wide)
Bouteloua gracilis / blue grama grass / (.5 – 2 ft tall, 2 ft wide)
Calliandra californica / red fairyduster / (3 – 5 ft tall, 5 ft wide)
Condea emoryi / desert lavender / (6 – 12 ft tall, 8 ft wide )
Encelia farinosa / brittlebush / (1 – 5 ft tall, 4 ft wide)
Gambelia juncea ‘Gran Canon’ / Gran Canon Baja Bush Snapdragon / (3 -5 ft tall, 5 – 10 ft wide)
Larrea tridentata / creosote bush / (3 – 12 ft tall, 6 – 12 ft wide)
Mirabilis californica / desert wishbone-bush (1 ft tall, 8 ft wide)
Simmondsia chinensis / jojoba / (3 – 7 ft, 4 – 7 ft wide)
Sphaeralcea ‘Childerley’ / childerley mallow (2 – 3 ft tall, 1 – 2 ft wide)
Thymophylla pentachaeta / five needle pricklyleaf / (1 ft tall)
Mountain Basin
Foothill – Meadow
Adenostoma ‘Nicolas’ / Nicolas chamise / ()
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi / kinnikinnick / (1 ft tall, 10 ft wide)
Arctostaphylos ‘Byrd Hill’ / Byrd Hill manzanita / (8 – 10 ft tall, 6 – 8 ft wide)
Arctostaphylos ‘Howard McMinn’ / Howard McMinn manzanita / (5 – 7 ft tall, 8 – 10 ft wide)
Ceanothus ‘Sierra Blue’ / Sierra blue mountain lilac / (15 – 20 ft tall, 15 – 25 ft wide)
Cercis occidentalis / western redbud / (10 – 20 ft tall, 10 – 15 ft wide)
Epilobium canum / California fuchsia / (.25 – 1 ft tall, 2 – 3 ft wide)
Festuca californica / California fescue / (1 – 4 ft tall, 3 ft wide)
Fragaria chiloensis ‘Chaval’ / beach strawberry / (1 – 4 in tall, 2 – 3 ft wide)
Frangula ‘Mound San Bruno’ / Mound San Bruno California coffeeberry / (3 – 4 ft tall, 4 – 6 ft wide)
Heuchera ‘Wendy’ / Wendy alumroot / (.5 – 1 ft tall, 1 – 2 ft wide)
Holodiscus discolor / cream bush / (3 – 16 ft tall, 10 – 15 ft wide)
Iris sp.
Monardella odoratissima / mountain coyote mint / (4 – 11 in tall)
Coastal Bluff
Coastal Sage Scrub
Arctostaphylos cruzensis / Arroyo de la Cruz manzanita / (.7 – 3 ft tall, 5 ft wide)
Atriplex lentiformis / big saltbush / (3 – 10 ft tall, 10 ft wide)
Artemisia californica / California sagebrush / (1 – 8 ft tall, 4 ft wide)
Baccharis ‘Pigeon Point ’ / dwarf coyote bush (1 – 5 ft tall)
Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia / beach evening primrose / (1 – 4 in tall, .5 – 3 ft wide)
Dudleya attenuata / dudleya attenuata / (3 – 8 ft tall)
Dudleya brittonii ‘silver’ / giant chalk dudleya / (6 in tall, 6 – 10 in wide)
Encelia californica / bush sunflower / (1 – 5 ft tall, 3 – 7 ft wide)
Eriogonum grande var. rubescens / red-flowered buckwheat / (.7 – 1 ft tall, 3 ft wide)
Eriogonum ‘Dana Point’ / Dana Point buckwheat / (3 – 4 ft tall, 6 – 10 ft wide)
Heteromeles arbutifolia / toyon / (6 -30 ft tall, 10 – 15 ft wide)
Leymus ‘Canyon Prince’ / Canyon Prince wild rye / (2 -3 ft tall, 3 ft wide)
Rhus integrifolia / lemonade berry / (3 – 30 ft tall, 3 – 20 ft wide)
Salvia apiana / white sage / (3 – 5 ft tall, 3 – 8 ft wide)
Salvia ‘Jade Carpet ’ / Jade carpet black sage / (1 – 2 ft tall, 4 – 6 ft wide)
Asclepias sp. / milkweed fits into any of these plant lists 🙂