Plants For Coastal Sage Scrub

Salvia Pozo Blue is very drought tolerant three foot green-gray perennial. A hybrid of Salvia clevelandii and Salvia leucophylla. It is one of our older Las Pilitas selections. We named it for th... Learn more.

Salvia apiana, White sage is a  five foot evergreen perennial. The flowers emerge in summer and are white with a little lavender. They pucker-back with the stamens hanging out to the sides. White sag... Learn more.

Salvia Vicki Romo was apparently a hybrid between Salvia clevelandii, Salvia apiana, maybe Salvia leucophylla and others. Betsy Clebsch reports in Sages for Every Garden "It was introduced in 1993 and... Learn more.

Brandegee's sage, named after an early American botanist, is a beautiful sage with shimmering, blue flowers. It is an evergreen shrub that grows to 3 feet tall. Brandegee's sage likes full sun, dry c... Learn more.

A very colorful annual of hot interior areas. We do not generally grow annuals. Here's a native sage page where you can see all the sages of California. Learn more.

A form of Salvia clevelandii that was found near the town of Alpine in San Diego County, and was introduced by Bert Wilson at Las Pilitas Nursery. The form attracted attention originally because i... Learn more.

Salvia clevelandii 'Deer Springs' is a Cleveland Sage from Northern San Diego County. It was collected from the Deers Springs area. A nice looking plant with nice blue flowers and a wonderful frangran... Learn more.

Salvia clevelandii, 'Winnifred Gilman' is an green sage with blue flowers set in whorls of lavender bracts. This form of Cleveland sage is native to dry slopes San Diego County (we would guess it h... Learn more.

A little annual sage that doesn't look like a sage. Not much scent but nice 1 inch flowers on a 1-2 foot plant. Native on the south slopes on rock or gravel. Chia grows commonly on disturbed soil. But... Learn more.

Purple sage, Salvia leucophylla,  is a three to six foot evergreen shrub with flowers that are light purple in May-Jul.. Purple sage has leaves that are white tomentose(kinda fuzzy grey). This... Learn more.

Salvia Point Sal is a gray ground cover that generally grows 3-4 foot across and a few inches tall. BUT, there seems to be more than one flavor in the trade. It is supposed to be less than one foot t... Learn more.

Black Sage is a three foot evergreen shrub with white to light blue flowers from March to July. This sage is native to sunny dry slopes in the coast ranges from San Jose to Baja. It likes sun, tolera... Learn more.

Salvia mellifera repens can be a relatively  flat fragrant shrub with dark green foliage and light blue flowers. In interior heat this black sage becomes a lower version of itself and  can get to be 6... Learn more.

San Diego sage is a small bush or sub-shrub that grows from two to three foot tall and a little wider that occurs down near the border with Mexico, in the worst conditions possible. This native to S... Learn more.

Salvia sonomensis Farmar-Bower is a golden creeping sage that is a garden-tolerant perennial creamy yellow flowers. Apparently, this yellow flowered form is more common in the northern portions of t... Learn more.

A Hummingbird Sage from the Las Pilitas area that was found growing under chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum) on a south-facing slope where there are winter springs and summer heat. Even though the expo... Learn more.

'Powerline Pink' Hummingbird Sage has the largest flowers of any hummingbird sage we have ever grown. The flowers are so large they fall over if given too much shade along the coast. It does best in f... Learn more.

Many decades  ago we did a few plant sales at the Topanga RSCD office.  Exploring about we  found this Hummingbird Sage deep in the Santa Monica mountains west of Los Angeles. At the Santa Margarita n... Learn more.

Emerald cascade is a small mounding Salvia munzii with green foliage and a blue flower. Emerald cascade looks like a layered bonzai of regular Salvia muzzii with few of the better qualities of Salvia ... Learn more.

Mexican elderberry or Tapiro,(Sambucus mexicana) is a deciduous shrub to tree with butter yellow flowers in Apr.-Aug. followed by purple berries in September-October. . This elderberry is native to... Learn more.

San Miguel savory Satureja chandleri is an inch to foot high by 3 foot perennial with very fragrant foliage. With semi-regular water and shade this savory can be easily be kept a few inches tall and... Learn more.

A perennial, 1" white flowers on 1' stems, a north slope plant to include with ferns, excellent drainage. Learn more.

Scrophularia atrata, Bumble Bee Plant, is a two to four foot perennial with three foot spikes of maroon 1/4-1/2" flowers that seems to be the place to be if you're a bumble bee or a butterfly. (Bu... Learn more.

Scrophularia californica, California Figwort is a two to four foot perennial with three foot spikes of red flowers. It is native along the coast and southern Sierras, from L.A. to B.C.. It is not a... Learn more.

A two-three foot perennial with one-inch yellow daisies. It looks like a grey marguerite. It is useful in revegetation, bank stabilization, or in dryland gardens. Give sun and little or no water in mo... Learn more.