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Plant GuideJapanese yellow sage
Salvia koyamaeAt first glance, this Japanese woodland native does not look as if it belongs in a shade garden, but I find its spreading foliage and light-colored flowers do wonderfully as…
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Plant GuideSnow-in-summer
Cerastium tomentosumSnow-in-summer is great for rock gardens and dry areas, and also works well as a container plant.
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Plant Guide‘Boulder Blue’ Blue fescue
Festuca glauca 'Boulder Blue'Regarded by some as the bluest blue fescue, this plant forms compact, cascading mounds of foot-tall, intensely blue, narrow leaves that are attractive in all seasons.
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Plant GuideToyon, Christmas berry, California holly
Heteromeles arbutifoliaThis evergreen, California-native shrub grows to 20 feet tall and wide and produces abundant clusters of tiny white flowers in early summer, which attract beneficial insects that help control pests.
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Plant GuideMrs. Robb’s bonnet
Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiaeThis variety has dark, glossy evergreen leaves arranged in tight rosettes, and it produces yellow-green bracts in mid-spring and early summer.
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Plant GuideGolden barrel cactus
Echinocactus grusoniiGolden barrel cactus has a rounded form that eventually elongates.
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Plant GuideOcotillo
Fouquieria splendensThis southwestern native shrub grows to 20 feet tall and 15 feet wide and sports long, dull, spiny stems that green up and leaf out after a rain, followed by…
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Plant GuideBlack dalea
Dalea frutescensThis low, mounding, Southwest native shrub up to 4 feet tall and 6 feet wide has feathery foliage that contributes fine texture to a garden.
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Plant GuideBlue Atlas cedar
Cedrus atlantica f. glaucaThis stunning evergreen conifer can be a very large specimen tree (to over 100 feet) in the landscape.
