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Easy garden design: Wet Clay

(For more see www.mynativeplants.com)

If you are watering this much in clay you may have plants showing signs of drought stress! Not to mention an ooey-gooey mess.

Are you planting these in sun or shade?

1.Sun: Out in the open or it may have a little shade part of the day

Here looking down on a flowering Anemopsis californica, Yerba Mansa, growing at the edge of a waterway. - grid24_12
Aquilegia formosa, Western Columbine. - grid24_12
Asclepias fascicularis, Narrow-leaf milkweed flower - grid24_12
Epipactis gigantea, Stream Orchid flower - grid24_12
Juncus oxymeris Pointed Rush - grid24_12

Juncus oxymeris, Pointed Rush
Juncus phaeocephalus phaeocephalus Brown Headed Creeping Rush - grid24_12
Juncus phaeocephalus phaeocephalus, Brown Headed Creeping Rush
The flowers of Mimulus cardinalis, Scarlet Monkey Flower, have an unusual shape or form in comparison to many other Mimulus species. - grid24_12

Mimulus cardinalis, Scarlet Monkey Flower
Mimulus guttatus, Seep Monkey Flower - grid24_12

Mimulus guttatus, Seep Monkey Flower
Oenothera hookeri, Hooker's Evening Primrose. - grid24_12
Oenothera hookeri, Evening Primrose
Psoralea orbicularis, Giant Clover has big flowers. - grid24_12
Psoralea orbicularis, Giant Clover
Scratch and sniff, sorry, always wanted to do that. - grid24_12

Satureja mimuloides
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
Solidago californica, California Goldenrod

2. Shade: Coastal sun or Under oaks (this much water will kill your oaks) or other large trees, or on the north side of a building.

Adiantum jordanii, California Maiden-Hair Fern, loves the habitat in this moist greenhouse rock wall. - grid24_12
Equisetum hymale Scouring rush - grid24_12
Fragaria californica Wood Strawberry is edible and although small, tasty It makes a low ground cover in moist shade. - grid24_12
Mahonia pinnata Shinyleaf Mahonia and California Barberry. - grid24_12
A closeup photo of Polypodium californicum, California Polypody, so you can see the detail of the fronds. - grid24_12
Ribes sanguineum glutinosum, Pink-Flowered Currant. with masses of pink flowers - grid24_12
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