Coastal Gardening

California Native Plants for Coastal Gardening

If you find yourself in August barely breaking a sweat and feeling a cooling breeze laced with the faintest hint of salt you have probably landed yourself a highly coveted Coastal Garden! Native plant choices that will flourish and enliven your garden are seemingly endless!

Listed here are just some of the many plants that will give your garden it’s sense of place, identifying it as a coastal California paradise. Transforming your garden with the use of natives and regionally appropriate plants will bring butterflies, birds and pollinators of all sorts as you create for them a true coastal habitat. So let the sound of the waves and the onshore breeze inspire you to turn your garden into your own beach retreat!

*regionally appropriate nonnative, ASH afternoon shade, SH shade

Tips for Planting

• Plant fall through spring, your success rate will be much higher than mid summer planting
• When planting avoid the heat of the day and heat waves
• Backfill with moist soil when planting
• When establishing a plant they will need more water than
  published requirements
• Pick up or download our planting guide or watch our
  planting video before putting plants into the ground
• Micro-climates are areas in your yard that don’t conform to
  average climate conditions and should be noted before planting (i.e. full sun site but even hotter than average due to reflected sun from walls and no air movement)
• Water deeply to reach the bottom of the root ball

Water 2x – 4x a Month

Water 1-2′ per month

Water 1x a Month