“A Permaculture Approach to a California Native Plants Garden”

Gardening By Nature's Design: A Permaculture Approach to a California Native Plants Garden {NEW VIDEO}

Oakland Hills Landscape Plant List

*this plant list accompanies the video tour titled above

Along entrance steps by cottage

evergreen currant - ribes viburnifolium

symphoricarpos albus - California snowberry

ribes sanguineum white icicle - white flowering California currant

arctostaphylos sunset - manzanita shrub

aquilegia Formosa - western columbine

douglas iris canyon snow

Surrounding & outside the Oak tree

arctostaphylos 

ceanothus lemon ice – variegated California lilac

eriogonum grande var. rubescens - rosey buckwheat

eriogonum umbellatum var. aureum Kannah Creek - sulphur buckwheat

sissyrinchium bellum north coast – blue-eyed grass

arctostaphylos Howard McMinn

arctostaphylos point reyes

evergreen currant - ribes viburnifolium

salvia dara’s choice – ground cover sage

arctostaphylos pacific mist

abutilon palmeri – Palmer’s mallow

corylus cornuta var. californica – California hazelnut

epilobium canum canum - California fuchsia – spreading variety

baccharis pilularis pigeon point – coyote bush ground cover

baccharis pilularis – coyote bush shrub

arctostaphylos

adenostoma fasciculatum prostrate - prostrate chemise

arctostaphylos emerald carpet

calamagrostis foliosa – Cape Mendocino reed grass

lonicera - California honeysuckle

epilobium - white flowering California fuchsia

Above oak tree

salvia clevelandii Winifred Gilman

arctostaphylos sentinel

calamagrostis foliosa – Cape Mendocino reed grass

trichostema lanatum - wooly blue curls

salvia dara’s choice – ground cover sage

juncus patens – California grey rush

carex tumulicola – Berkeley sedge

festuca Californica - California fescue

mimulus aurantiacus - monkeyflower

Lower wetlands

cornus sericea - red twig dogwood

festuca Californica - California fescue

lobelia dunnii var. serrata – blue lobelia – spreading ground cover


Pistache tree perennial bed

solidago lepida – western golden rod

ceanothus gloriosus anchor bay

arctostaphylos densiflora Howard McMinn

rhamnus californica Mound San Bruno 

evergreen currant - ribes viburnifolium

asclepias fascicularis – California milkweed

baccharis pilularis pigeon point – coyote bush ground cover

galvezia speciosa - Island snapdragon

fragaria californica – woodland strawberry


Magnolia hillside planting bed

carex tumulicola – Berkeley sedge

calamagrostis foliosa – Cape Mendocino reed grass

carex testacea -orange meadow sedge

penstemon heterophyllus Margarita BOP – lilac-blue flowering

penstemon eatonii – red flowering penstemon

sissyrinchium bellum north coast – blue-eyed grass

heterotheca sess. bolanderi San Bruno Mtn. - California golden aster

galvezia speciosa - Island snapdragon

arctostaphylos densiflora Howard McMinn

rhamnus californica Mound San Bruno 

douglas iris

vaccinium ovatum – California huckleberry

arctostaphylos Louis Edmunds

acer circinatum – California vine maple

lavatera assurgentiflora/malva assurgentiflora – Island mallow

juncus patens – California grey rush

polystichum munitum – western sword fern

blechnum spicant – deer fern

fragaria californica – woodland strawberry

cercis occidentalis - western redbud