Before picture showing the shade situation that dictated plant choices.
The Maple trees being deciduous allow the sun to reach all of the early flowering plants I utilized. Later when the sun gets higher in the sky this whole side of the house is shaded for all but a few hours in the late afternoon.
Hummingbird Sage (Powerline Pink) paired with Purple Nightshade (Mountain Pride) in my CA Native Shade Garden. The maple trees are deciduous so these shade plants get winter sun and help brighten things up when not much else is growing.
Spreading via rhizome to form a nice little patch that will produce lots of flowers.
Powerline Pink that was chopped back to the ground last year
Baja Pitcher Sage
All California native plants used in the shade garden.
- California Wild Rose
- Carpenteria californica (Elizabeth)
- Ceanothus (Popcorn)
- Ceanothus (Concha)
- Coffeeberry (Mound San Bruno)
- Fire Cracker Penstemon
- Heuchera (Canyon Duet, Martha Roderick, Maxima, Santa Ana Cardinal, Wendy)
- HummingBird Sage (Standard, Powerline Pink, Las Pilitas)
- Manzanita (White Cloud)
- Nightshade (Mountain Pride)
- Pitcher Sage (Baja, Fragrant)
- Ribes sanguineum (Claremont, King Edward VII)
- Ribes aureum var. gracillimum (Golden Currant)
- Salvia (Dara’s Choice) – Black Sage (S. mellifera) and Creeping Sage (S. sonomensis)