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.
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)