Hemminger Residence
Carex cherokeensis - This sedge is planted most often in woodland or shade gardens with average, moist or wet soil. Plants are also at home in sunny meadows and seasonally flooded open woodlands.
Carex appalachica - for shady grassy meadow areas
Silver Lupine
Sisyrinchium bellum - Blue Eye Grass
Summer Lupine
Beach Lupine
Salvia spathacea - Crimson Sage
Prunella vulgaris - Self-Heal
Anaphalis margaritacea - Pearly Everlasting - for meadow/ prairie look
Erigeron glaucus - Seaside Daisy
Wyethia angustifolia - Mule Ears
Achilliea millefolium - White Yarrow
Iris douglasiana - Iris
Ranunculus californicus - Buttercups - for prairie look
Sanicula bipinnatifida - Purple Sanicle
Viola pedunculata - golden violet or prairie look
CA poppies for prairie look
Dichelostemma capitatum - wildflower element in grasses
Carex praegracilis - California Field Sedge - this will give the prairie look, mixed with wildflowers like poppies.
Hydrangea and bluestone path
Vine
Potato vine over a few pergolas- dainty, less messy with tiny flowers and no petals blowing around.
Rose vine on white pergola structure - structure style too ornate, but I wanted to show the color contrast here
Rose vine over decorative walkway pergolas - not next to pool
Use carrotwood tree from lower garden. Add one more to create a screen behind upper back lawn garden area
Limelight Hydrangea
Mahonia repens - Creeping Mahonia - for shady slopes. Erosion control and firescaping
Muhlenbergia capillaris - Pink Muhly Grass in mass
Close up of Toyon
Native Toyon will grow under oaks in the shade. Use to screen propane tank and water pump area
Potato Vine - delicate with very small white flowers that don't make a mess
Wisteria over structure
Jeruselum Sage and Blue Pride of Madeira
Ceanothus on a hillside
Ceanothus and poppies
Ceanothus in bloom - hillside plant- native
Lagerstromeria indica - Catawba Crape Myrtle
Phlomis fruticosa - Jerusalem Sage
Wisteria
Danthonia spicata - Poverty Oat Grass - A petite cool season perennial grass with dense tufted foliage. Leaves from the current season are wiry and bluish green. Twisted older leaves develop a bronzy hue and are retained at the base of each clump. In late spring delicate flower panicles rise above the foliage. This grass thrives in sunny exposures with poor dry soil.
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