Plants For Chaparral
A gray leaved summer perennial. Bright yellow lupin like flowers on a 1-2' plant. Commonly on serpentine rock ourcroppings or adobe grasslands. Not as easy as most lupines. Give sun near the coast a l... Learn more.
Poison-oak is a suckering deciduous shrub that can become a vine if given something to climb onto. Poison oak uses aerial roots to sucker and to latch onto trees or walls. We do not grow it as we've ... Learn more.
Woolly Blue Curls is a three to four foot evergreen shrub with flowers violet in fuzzy spikes in May-Aug and narrow aromatic leaves. Woolly Blue Curls is native to dry slopes, south coast ranges ... Learn more.
Mountain Blue Curls, Trichostema parishii, has a open flower arrangement with delicate, dainty flowers on a small bush. Mountain Blue curls is also more drought tolerant than Woolly Blue Curls while... Learn more.
Our Native clovers are mostly annuals. We do not sell the seed but we do encourage the plants. The native clovers should not mowed or killed until the flowers are allowed to produce seed. This page ... Learn more.
Turricula parryi, Poodledog Bush is show stopper when it flowers. This is one of the largest fire following wildflowers. It does not compete well with grass seeding after fires. If there is a brush fi... Learn more.
Bay Laurel is an evergreen shrub to tree. Its final height is 47'average (in 100+years). It grows only a few inches a year here; along the coast it may grow a much as 4' or so each year. Native to th... Learn more.
A large perennial that is liked by butterflies and other native insects.(You\'ll hate it as it is a very large stinging nettle.) I\'ve seen it in Carpinteria on a north slope mixed with Ribes speciosu... Learn more.
Canyon Sunflower is a rather large perennial with two inch yellow sunflowers. Canyon Sunflower looks like yellow dahlias on bushes. It seems to always be in flower. The foliage is succulent and tende... Learn more.
California Vervain is an aggressive perennial that is weedy in gardens. In the wild it is a pioneer species that is used by many native butterflies and other insects. In the garden it will grow to 2-3... Learn more.
California Johnny jump up is a little six inch high perennial that goes dormant in summer. Its flowers are yellow with purplish tinge, scented, and edible.This Yellow Pansy likes part shade, but will... Learn more.
Shelton's Violet is a small little Violet from the forests of much of California. We may get some of these big enough to ship, I hope we will, but they are a small little perennial with yellow flowers... Learn more.
California grape is a deciduous vine to 30'. If this grape has no support it will make a nice groundcover and can cover a large greenhouse in 4-5 years. It has clusters of small edible grapes. Bees lo... Learn more.
Southern Mule Ears is a little nondescript perennial that needs no care after the first few months of it's life. This Wyethia grows from 1200 to 6000 feet from the southern Sierras down into Baja. Learn more.
Mission Manzanita is a one of a kind shrub or small tree. The only species of the genera Xylococcus. (Not to be confused with staphylococcus.) Mission Manzanita is an evergreen shrub that only grow... Learn more.
Yucca schidigera, Mojave Yucca is a 5ft tall plant with tall spires of cream colored flowers. Mojave Yucca is native plant from Baja California to Nevada. Jaeger says it is the most common yucca of th... Learn more.
Our lords candle is that spectacular yucca that grows in much of Southern California. Well behaved and easy in most dry gardens. GREAT to plant as a 'hedge' in many of the areas of Southern Californi... Learn more.
Chaparral Yucca is a large yucca that is in many ways similar to Joshua Tree. Being a large yucca branching from the base, makes a dramatic focal plant for the desert effect in a non-desert garden. ... Learn more.
The same as Yucca whipplei percusa but this one forms a 2-3' wide clump instead of a 4' patch of 1-2' plants. A nice plant native in an area that gets to -10 regularly with 10-15" of rainfall. Learn more.
A 1-3' evergreen stemless shrub. It has cream colored flowers in an 8' spike. The leaves are spine-tipped. (The kids when they were little called them yuccies.) This one suckers and slowly spreads int... Learn more.
PHAT Margarita is a very big California Fuchsia. The flowers are large, but the plants themselves are the biggest Zauschnerias we've seen to date. The plant is probably a hybrid between mexicana and j... Learn more.
The Catalina form of California fuchsia is a fairly large upright flowering perennial. Very showy in late summer and fall when covered with 1-2 inch fuchsia flowers. But the primary reason to plant i... Learn more.
Zauschneria californica 'Ghostly Red' is a one foot high grey-green leaved perennial California native hummingbird fuchsia. Its flowers are intense red. 'Ghostly Red' has the purest red flowers we've... Learn more.
This California fuchsia is a low growing perennial that is useful if you need a ground cover in an area that gets 10-40" rainfall. After the first summer this fuchsia flowering plant can make it on it... Learn more.
California fuchsia 'Hollywood Flame' is a showy perennial that grows 2-3' tall with delicate feathery leaves and red flowers. 'Hollywood Flame' is hummingbird flower that grows naturally in the hills ... Learn more.
