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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 🙂

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