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Easy native garden design: Dry Sand

(For a coastal garden, for others see www.mynativeplants.com)

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 Ok, remember that there's moisture a foot or so down in the dune. So when you water water down to that level and let the top 1-2 inches dry out before you water again.

Diplacus aurantiacus Orange Bush Monkey Flower
Diplacus puniceus Otay monkey flower Red Monkey Flower
Eriogonum arborescens Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat
Eriogonum latifolium Coast Buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium Cliff Buckwheat
Erysimum insulare Dune Wallflower
Horkelia cuneata
Lupinus chamissonis Silver Dune Lupine
Monardella crispa Wavyleaf dune mint
Prunus fasciculata punctata Sand Almond
Prunus ilicifolia Hollyleaf Cherry
Salvia clevelandii Alpine Cleveland sage Musk Sage
Salvia clevelandii Winifred Gilman Cleveland Sage Musk Sage
Salvia Gracias Creeping sage
Salvia mellifera Black Sage
Salvia munzii San Diego Sage
Salvia Pozo Blue Grey Musk Sage
Tanacetum camphoratum Camphor Dune Tansy

2. Shade: Coastal sun or under oaks or other large trees, or on the north side of a building.

Diplacus aurantiacus Orange Bush Monkey Flower
Heuchera maxima Island Alum Root
Ribes speciosum Fuchsia-Flowering Gooseberry
Ribes viburnifolium Evergreen Currant



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An Arctostaphylos morroensis in Los Osos coastal sage scrub. - grid24_12
Eriogonum arborescens, Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat with pink flowers. - grid24_12
A young Anna Hummingbird on Salvia Alpine, Cleveland Sage. Cleveland Sage is drought resistant and can look good with 7-8 inches of rainfall. Your native garden needs very little water in a drought  to  look and smell good. Tolerant of much abuse. - grid24_12
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