California Natives

Deep red bark, big berries, gray-green leaves, slope stabilizing roots. Cold Hardy.

Lavender-shaded flowers upon dark green leaves

An accurate name for this species as it gets quite gigantic reaching heights up to eight feet. Although the plant is native to the Channel Islands in performs well in many situations including hot interior valleys. The inflorescences on this shrub are...

An accurate name for this species as it gets quite gigantic reaching heights up to eight feet. Although the plant is native to the Channel Islands in performs well in many situations including hot interior valleys. The inflorescences on this shrub are...

Desert Penstemon is native to southwestern United States where it grows in inland deserts and plateaus. It forms a shrub up to 3 feet wide and tall with large, serrated, blue-green foliage, similar to Penstemon spectabilis. Blooms mid to late spring with...

The Valley Oak, endemic to California, is a magnificent and keystone tree found in the state's interior valleys and foothills. It can reach colossal proportions over centuries. This deciduous plant is characterized by its velvety, deeply lobed leaves...

Quercus wislizenii, commonly known as the Interior Live Oak, is a notable Californian oak tree. It exhibits a versatile growth habit and can be either standard or multi-form. The leaves resemble those of Quercus agrifolia, featuring toothed margins...

Introduced by Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Salvia ‘Starlight’ is a medium-sized shrub thought to be a hybrid of Salvia apiana and Salvia mellifera. Its soft, fragrant foliage is green and deeply textured on the tops of the leaves and grey-green on...

A random hybrid of Salvia apiana and likely S. mellifera with mostly S. apiana characteristics. Selected for its robust nature and ability to survive and thrive in full sun nursery conditions in the San Gabriel Valley, something that the straight species...

A hybrid of Salvia leucophylla and Salvia clevelandii, ‘Whirly Blue’ is a large, shrub-forming Salvia that grows quickly up to 4 to 6 tall and wide. Its small and deeply textured grey-green foliage is highly fragrant. In spring and fall it blooms with...