Las Pilitas Nursery

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3232 Las Pilitas Rd
Santa Margarita, CA 93453
Fri. & Sat. from 9am-4pm

8331 Nelson Way
Escondido, CA 92026
Tues. to Sat. from 9am-4pm

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Community Zip codes Native Plants Soils Plant Communities California Climate Fire landscape California's ecosystem

A guide to the plant communities of California.

Desert, Seaside, Grassland and Marsh Communities of California

Use rock mulch or a boulder for your mulch.

In places like Malibu there are desert plants mixed with coastal bluff plants. Bladderpod at the seashore, weird.

Woodlands and Scrublands of California

Boulders near each plant and mulch between plants is best, but just mulch is ok.

Chaparral is represented in most of the populated coastal communities.

Coniferous Forests of California

1-3" redwood, cedar or pine needle mulch is required by these plants!

California forests are mostly at higher elevations or in Northern California.

A unwatered coastal bluff in June. The Yellow is Eriophyllum staechadifolium artemisiaefolium. - grid24_12

Encelia farinosa Common Names: Brittlebush, Goldenhills, Incienso growing in the desert hills around Barstow. - grid24_12

The edge of a chaparral woodland, home on the range - grid24_12

Coniferous forest in the Sierras. That sure looks like a redwood on the right. - grid24_12