California Native Plant Gardening

This is the index page for most of the native garden related pages on our website.
We have such a huge site and the pages are fairly diverse so here is an attempt to organize them for you.

Design help. A tool to search for plants for your garden.


Design Your Native Garden with a series of small help pages.

You can read about the plant communities here. along with how native landscaping makes economic and environmental sense. Learn how to pick your vegetables as you watch the hummingbirds, and see gardens of some of our customers. How to plant a native plant and all sorts of design ideas and help. We've also built a series of how to build stuff from bird houses to fences. Learn how to maintain your native garden after you've planted it.

You can build a garden for seasonal color. Plant for flowers in February, May, August or even November.

I pushed a few gallon containers together so you can visualize a wildflower bouquet. - grid24_12
Native plants can be stunning .
A home owner planting at planting in Northern san Luis Obispo County, Atascadero/Paso Robles. - grid24_6
Help for the new gardener.

California plant communities and designing a native garden.

Reasons and philosophy of native landscaping. What not to do.

How to put Vegetables and Native Plants in the same garden and then there are Permaculture ideas.

Along a similar line are plant strategies R-C-S, why some plants tolerate drip irrigation.

How different is California from the rest of the United States? California plants have problems in other areas.
Designing a native garden with deer present. Usually if you have to deal with deer you are in a fire area.
We also have pages on designing for safety in a fire area.
Help with irrigation, soil problems, slopes, shady garden plants, and fragrant native plants.

Drought resistant plants In the 1500's California had an 80 years drought and the native plants survived.
Drought tolerant plants for specific cities in California.
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Here are some examples of Native Gardens

More examples and photos of native gardens.

You can build native gardens for bumblebees, insects, insect pollinators, insect predators, butterflies, hummingbirds, or birds.

If you don't want to build a native garden for wildlife, build it for yourself and fill it with Ceanothus, Gooseberries or Currants, Honeysuckles, Manzanitas, Monkey Flowers, Oaks, Penstemons, Sages, trees, or Vines.
Bombus vosnesenskii visiting a Salvia Alpine flower. - grid24_12
Bombus vosnesenskii working the flowers of Alpine Cleveland sage
Predrill the holes before you put the screws in or you'll split the wood. - grid24_12
How to build stuff like fences, greenhouse, chairs, decks, birdhouses, bird baths, etc..
How to plant a native plant. Dig a hole, plant the plant at grade level, and water a lot at first. - grid24_12

How to Plant California Native Plants.
Videos and everything!

Printable Planting Guide
A simple one page how to plant.
Arctostaphylos manzanita, Austin Griffiths, makes a very good eight foot or so hedge - grid24_12
Why not enhance your garden with a native hedge?
Steve, Bakersfield front yard. - grid24_12
How to maintain your native garden.
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How to restore a native ecosystem. A more detailed page about native restoration is here.
Sauromalus obesus, Chuckwalla. I know a few people that fit this profile. - grid24_12
You might also be interested in some of our Wildlife Articles, with information about California wildlife and plants wildlife prefer.

Last edited on 2012-01-08 18:09:28.

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