BANDLE BOTANICAL NAME COMMON NAME PLANT TYPE 1 Acca (Feijoa) sellowiana* Pineapple Guava 2 Achillea millefolium Yarrow Large Evergreen /Small Tree Semi-Deciduois Herbacious Perrenial 3 Aeonium 'Zwartkop'* Aeonium 'Zwartkop' Upright Succulent 4 Arctostaphylos uva-ursi 'Radiant' Radiant Manzanita 5 Arctostayphylos Sunset Sunset Manzanita (New) Evergreen Spreading Evergreen Medium Sized 6 Baccharis pilularis 'Pigeon Point' Pigeon Point Coyote Bush Evergreen 7 Carpenteria californica Bush Anemone Medium Sized Evergreen 8 Ceanothus gloriosus 'Heart's Desire' Heart's Desire Ceanothus Small Evergreen 9 Dendromecon harfordii Island Bush Poppy 10 Echevaria agavoides* Hen and Chicks Medium to Large Perrenial Clumping Succulent 11 Elymus condensatus 'Canyon Prince' Canyon Prince Wild Rye Clumping Grass 12 Encelia farinosa Brittlebush 13 Epilobium 'Bert's Bluff' Bert s Bluff California Fuschia Perrenial/Stressdeci duous
41 Epilobium canum 'Catalina' Catalina Fuchsia Perrenial/Stressdeci duous 14 Erigeron 'Wayne Roderick' Wayne Roderick Daisy Low Mounding Perrenial 15 Eriogonum arborescens Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat (New) Evergreen 16 Eriogonum umbellatum polyanthum Shasta Sulphur Sulphur Buckwheat (New) Low Mounding Perrenial 17 Eschscholzia californica California Poppy Herbacious Perrenial 39 Festuca idahoensis Idaho Fescue Perennial Grass 18 Iris douglasiuna Douglas Iris Small Clumping Perrenial 19 Lepechinia fragrans Pitcher Sage (New) Semi Evergreen 20 Mimulus aurantiacus Sticky Monkey Flower Small Evergreen 21 Mimulus Jelly Bean Jelly Bean Monkeyflower (New) 22 Muhlenbergia rigens Deer Grass (New) 23 Muhlenbergia lindheimeri Autumn Glow * Autumn Glow Muhly (New) 40 Penstemon eatonii Firecracker Penstemon Small Evergreen Evergreen Warm Season Perrenial Grass Evergreen Warm Season Perrenial Grass Evergreen Herbacious Perrenial 24 Penstemon 'Margarita BOP' Penstemon Margarita BOP Evergreen Herbacious Perrenial 25 Penstemon palmeri Palmer s Scented Penstemon Evergreen Herbacious Perrenial
42 Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum Flowering Currant Deciduous 26 Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum 'Spring Showers' Spring Showers Currant Deciduous 27 Romneya trichocalyx Fried Egg Plant (Hairy Matilija Poppy) Large Perrenial 28 Salvia apiana White Sage (New) Sprawling Subshrub 29 Salvia Pozo Blue Pozo Blue Salvia (New) Perrenial 30 Salvia gregii 'Furman's Red' Furman's Red Sage Woody Subshrub 31 Salvia sonomensis Sonoma Sage Perrenial 32 Salvia sonomensis 'Dara's Choice' Dara's Choice Sage Perrenial 33 Sedum rupestre Angelina * Angelina Stonecrop 34 Sempervivum* Hens & Chicks Low Growing Succulentq Perrenial Clumping Succulent 35 Solidago californica Goldenrod Herbacious Perrenial 36 Teucrium x lucidrys* Dwarf Germander Mounding Subshrub 37 Trichostema lanatum Woolly Blue Curls Evergreen 38 Verbena lilacina 'De La Mina' Lilac Verbena Evergreen * Non-Native
ER GARDEN - SAN RAMON - P SIZE (H xw) WATER SUN 12'-18' x 10'- 15' M 18"-30" x 18"-30" 2'-3' x 1'-3' L/VL Sun 6"-12" x 10'- 12' 5'-7'x5'-7' 18"-24" x 6'- 9' 5'-6' x 6'-8' 1'-2' x 6' Pt. Sh. 6'-10' x 6'- 10' L/VL 8"-12" Diameter L/VL Sun 2'-3' L Sun 3'-5' x 3'-5' L/VL Sun 2'-3' x 2'-3' L/VL Sun/Shade
2'-3' x 2'-3' L/VL Sun/Shade 1' x 2' Sun 4'-5' x 5'-6' L/VL 6"-18" x 1'- 3' L/VL 6"-2' x 1'-2' L/VL 8"-16" x 1'- 2' VL 12"-18" x 1'- 2' M 3'-6' x 3'-6' L 2'-3' x 2'-3' L/VL 1'-2' x 1'-2' L/VL 4'-5' x 3'-6' 4'-5' x 3'-6' 1'-3' x 1'-2' L Sun 1'-2' x 1' L/VL Sun 3'-4' x 1' L/VL Sun
6' x 5'-6' M Sun/Shade 6' x 5'-6' M Sun/Shade 3'-6' x 3'-9' L/VL 4'-5' x 5'-6' L/VL Sun 3'-4' x 3'-6' L/VL Sun 2'-4' x 4' L/VL Sun 8"-12" x 3'- 4' L/VL Sun 3'x3' L/VL Sun 3"-6" x 10"- 12" 1'-4' Sun 12"-18" x 1'- 2' 2'-3' x 3'-4' Sun 2'-3' x 2'-3'
PLANT LIST NOTES The Pineapple Guava is known for its wonderfull spring flowers with showy red stamens and it's delicious fruit in the fall. Older larger specimens can be pruned as a low branching tree displaying their handsom bark and branching character. A tough adaptable plant common throughout California except for deserts. Expect white flowers in spring, with many cultivars varying in color available. It is an excellent habitat plant providing winter shelter for birds while it's flowers attract butterflies and bees. An upright succulent with nearly black foliage, It's leaf pattern resembles a large flower. It flowers in late winter to early spring with colorful yellow flowers on tall inflorescences. One of the more finnicky manzanitas, it prefers coastal areas with cool summers and sandy soils. It flowers in late winter in white to light pink, with red berries following. A Medium that grows with a mounding habit. It flowers in late winter with light pink flowers. Older species can be pruned to reveal shredding bark on the older branches which destinguish this cultivar. A low undulating spreading plant, coyote brush grows quickly and provides excellent wildlife habitat. Some birds such as wrentits and white-crowned sparrows will spend there entire lives in stands of coyote brush. Bush Anenome has an open, uneven form. It flowers in early spring with showy clusters of white flowers. It flowers best in un mostly sunny areas with protection from hot afternoon sun. Ceanothus is an excellent wildlife plant providing food and shelter for small mammels, rodents, birds and insects. Many Butterflies and Moths use Ceanothus as larval food. In addition to providing habitat, Ceanothus is known for its incredibly showing and fragrant blue spring blossoms. An incredibly beautiful and showy plant, The Island Bush Poppy, is difficult to get established. Once it is established however it will reward you with brilliant uniform yellow flowers year round. This Echeveria produces clusters of small rose colored flowers with yellow throats on thin and spindly stems from spring to early summer. Erect flower stalks rise 1-2 feet above the foliage in late summer and are topped with tightly congested clusters of spikes of wheat-colored flowers. Spreading through rhizomes, new plants emerge bright green but quickly turn blue as they grow. An extremely adaptable plant, it has intense displays of bright golden-yellow flowers in early spring. A second flowering can occur in late fall following rain. Bert's Bluff is a great fuscia for both bird and butterfly gardens. It's orange flowers bloom in the late summer through the fall providing much needed nectar for birds.
Similar to Bert's Bluff but with orange-red flowers. Easily grown and reliable, the seaside daisy has wonderful spring and early summer light magenta flowers. Buckwheat is an excellent habitat providing food, nectar and shelter to all sorts of beneficial insects, birds and mammals. It flowers in soft pink from early spring to summer, with reddish brown seed heads developing by the fall. Sulpher Buckwheat prefers cooler garden locations than it's Santa Cruz Island Bretherin. It's flowering and seed habit are similar to other buckwheats with this variety producing tightly grouped clusters of intense lemon-yellow flowers. The classic california poppy; dormant in the summer it blooms most heavily from March through May. With blueish green leaves, Idaho Fescue makes an excellent addention as a medow grass. The Douglas Iris is a vigerous plant naturally occuring in in moist and shaded grassland slopes. It flowers most commonly in the spring with showy blue-purple flowers though there are many cultivars with a variety of colors available. In the spring and early summer, this pitcher sage produces fragrant and showy foxglove like lavendar flowers. It is a wonderful choice for a bird garden and can help make and excellent shade garden as well. The Monkey Flower is known as one of California's most deer proof shrubs. Though the species is rather loosely defined, it generally produces light orange flowers in spring, through the color can range from yellow to red depending as they hybridize incredibly easily. Similar to the Sticky Monkey Flower though a bit smaller, it produces dark orange flowers nearly year round. It is one of the newest cultivars of Monkey Flower available. Excellent as both a specimen and in larger groups, Deer Grass' tightly packed shoots often can resemble a fountain of leaves, with tall flowering stems held stiffly verticle. Autumn Glow has a softer effect than it's cousin Deer Grass with wider and taller flowers giving them a feather like effect. The flowers become light yellow in Autumn, and take on a glowing effect when backed by the sun. Penstemmons are great plants for Bees, Butterlies and Humming Birds. Eatonii blooms in bright red and has a waxy blue coating on it's leaves. The 'Margarita BOP' cultivar blooms profusely in the spring for several months in deep purple. Largerand with slightly better cold tolerance, it's flowers are bright pink and lightly fragrant.
An excellent bird garden specimen, it produces dark black currants in the fall which birds love. Spring showers has wonderfull light pink dangling flowers in the spring Less aggressive than coulteri, this poppy produces 4-6 inch wide white flowers with yellow centers, giving it it's name. Where it's coulteri will grow to cover an entire hillside, trichocalyx will grow in in shrublike clumps. A wonderful and incredibly aromatic sage. The white sage is considered sacred by some native californian tribes. It attracts bees which make a delicate and flavourful honey from it's late spring flowers. Pozo Blue produces bright blue flowers in the spring for about 6 weeks. It is an amazing butterfly and hummingbird bush, actracting many different species. This sage produces bright red flowers intermitantly throughout the year, though flowering is heaviest in spring and fall. It is another great hummingbird bush. This low growing sage produces lavendar blue flowers from spring to early summer. It makes an excellent ground cover. An incredibly tough and fast growing cultivar of the Sonoma sage. It needs next to no water. It produces fragrant blue flowers in the spring and is excellent for a bird garden. In the summer this stonecrop produces showy yellow flowers in the summer. It makes an excellent border plant. Fairly nondescript until it blooms, in the summer the California Goldenrod sends up stalks whose golden yellow flowers attract bees, butterflies and other insects. It also provides nice fall color. In early summer this Germander thros up colorful spikes of rosy-purple flowers. It's flowers attract lots of bees. Wolly blue curls' flowers are easily some of the most beautiful of all california natives. They bloom in early spring as well as intermittently throughout the year in blue, white, and purple, atracting hummingbirds. Lilac Verban is a wonderful butterfly garden plant. It blooms from spring through fall with pastel colored flowers.