Plant List for Entry Beds
Criteria - full sun, little to moderate water, to 18” high
Ca natives and Mediterranean varieties
- Achillea tomentosa - woolly yarrow
- sun, moder, 3” x 18”
yellow; sum - early aut
makes a flat spreading mat, of fern like, gr/grn hairy lvs - Archtostaphylos ‘Emerald Carpet’ [CA native]
- full sun, monthly water (more in summer), 9” -14” x 4’ - 6’
pink fl; Mar - Apr - Calochortus luteus - gold nuggets (CA native bulbs) [good in areas w/out water]
- sun, none, 6 - 8”
large bright yellow flowers w/brick red/brown mark on inside of petal
12 - 24” stems; spring - Calochortus venustus - mariposa lily
- sun, white
- Epilobium incanum ‘Uvas Canyon’ (CA native)
- sun, little, 15” x spreading
red/orange; 3 seasons
medium, grey foliage; tends to be invasive - Eriogonum umbellatum ‘Shasta Sulphur’
- sun, little - moder, 1-1/2 x 3’ (CA native)
sulphur yellow; spring
silvery, green mound - Eschscholzia californica - california poppy (CA native)
- sun, little to reg, 8 - 12”
orange/yellow; spr - sum; freely re-seeds - Euonymous fortunei ‘Nana’
- sun, moder, 1’ x 3’
green leaves surrounded by creamy white margins tinted pink in cold weather - Festuca ovina glauca - blue fescue
- sun, moder, 4 - 6” x 12”
some varieties are very blue - Festuca rubra ‘Molate’ (CA native)
- sun, moder
when it gets long, flops over for a ‘meadow’ look - Gaillardia x grandiflora - blanket flower
- sun, moderate water, 12”’ x18”, compact
orange/red fl with yellow tips; early summer to frost - Gazania spp
- sun, moder, 1’ x 2’
colors vary; spring to frost - Marrubium cylleneum - Albanian horehound
- sun, moderate, 6” x 20”
white; summer
fuzzy yellow/green leaves; good filler - Nepeta faasenii - Catmint
- sun, moderate, 1’ x variable
lav-blue fl; early summer
shear back dead flower spikes - Origanum rotundifolium ‘Kent Beauty’
- sun, little - moderate, 8” x 12”
small,pale pink; summer
stems are grn/blu;bracts are pnksh/grn
good in dried arrangements - Osteospermum fruticosum - trailing African daisy
- sun, moder, 6 - 12” x trailing rooting stems
colors vary; blooms intermittently all year, most heavily in autumn/winter - Salvia sonomensis - Sonoma sage (CA native)
- sun, moder, 8 - 12” x 3 - 4’
lav-blue; spring-sum - Santolina chamaecyparissus (incana) ‘Nana’ -lavender cotton
- full sun, every 3 wks in summer,1’ x 2’
yellow; summer
foliage is aromatic
prune in spring for full foliage and less woody branches - Santolina virens - green lavender cotton
- full sun, little, best clipped to <1’ x 2’
creamy chartreuse; summer - Teucrium chamaedrys - germander
- sun, little, 1 - 2’
loose spikes of red-purple; summer
to keep neat, shear once or twice a year to force side branching
Last Update: Jul 5 2009 by Annie Kempees