Native flowers in a November or fall garden.

Here are pictures of flowers in a California native garden in November.

Most were taken in the Santa Margarita Garden. Your area maybe have slightly different flowering times, but this is meant to show what will flower in fall.

Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus on Aster chilensis - grid24_12

Monarch Butterfly on a California Aster

Zauschneria latifolia johnstonii, Aster chilensis and Chrysothamnus nauseosus all flower in late fall.
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Zauschneria latifolia johnstonii, Rabbit Brush and Aster chilensis all flower in fall.

One of our little Bushtits looking for aphids on a California Aster. - grid24_12

One of are favorite photos was of a bushtit in a California Aster

This native plant grows on the edges of salty marshes, or in a conventional garden. GREAT butterfly plant. - grid24_12

Joaquin Sunflower grows in wet spots. Before you pop-pop it, it doesn't need much to produce a lot of flowers that the butterflies love.

Brickellia californica Brickellbush flowers - grid24_6

Brickellbush smells like someone is making an sinful good batch of vanilla cookies .

Ericameria cuneata Wedgeleaf Goldenbush - grid24_12

Wedgeleaf Goldenbush likes to grow on walls or in rocks.

Seaside Daisy is really a seaside daisy.

Erigeron glaucus, Cape Sebastian - grid24_12

Cape Sebastian is a heavy flowering form of Seaside Daisy.

Erigeron Wayne Roderick Daisy - grid24_12

Wayne Roderick Daisy flowers, you trim it, it flowers.

Menzies' wallflower grows in the beach sand around Santa Cruz. Here it commonly flowers when we get a couple or rain storms.

Isocoma grows right along the coastal bluffs, but does ok in our garden.

Isomeris arborea, Bladderpod, with its pretty yellow flowers, and strange-shaped fruits, sticks out in a garden, and is at its optimum, in dry, sunny, winter-cool, summer-hot areas. - grid24_6

Bladderpod seems to flower all the time.

White Chaparral currant, Ribes indecorum - grid24_12

White Chaparral Currant can flower in late fall, winter or spring, according to the weather.

Ribes malvaceum Pink Chaparral currant. - grid24_12

Pink Chaparral currant. also can flower in late fall, winter or spring, according to the weather.

If you've not figured it out yet, Salvia clevelandii Alpine is a great wildlife plant. - grid24_12

Alpine Cleveland sage seems to flower forever. May to December.

California Goldenrod is native on the Santa Margarita nursery site. It grows on a north slope in red clay and in most gravel. - grid24_12

California Goldenrod grows on north slopes or in seasonally wet spots. Flowers for a couple of months in summer and fall.

Narrowleaf California fuchsia, Zauschneria cana in flower - grid24_6

Narrowleaf California Fuchsia live along the coast in Southern California. Will grow in a native garden in most of the state.

Zauschneria latifolia johnstonii in flower. They make a great show in late summer - grid24_12

Bush California Fuchsia is a big California Fuchsia that will make a splash in any garden..

Mattole River California Fuchsia, Zauschneria septentrionalis makes a real flower show - grid24_12

Mattole River Fuchsia is usually in flower from September through the first hard frost, about the first of December. Light frosts do not bother it.

Native flowers in February
Native flowers in May
Native flowers in August

Here are pictures of flowers in a California native garden in November.

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