Easy native garden design:

Native plants for wet sand and sun

This is wet, well drained soil and sun in the interior. If you are right along the coast, and get a lot of fog, look at the shade stuff even though you want to plant these in the sun.

Pick a garden style or mix and match.

Have Fun!

A California native garden for birds and butterflies

Achillea millefolium californica, Yarrow

Anemopsis californica, Yerba Mansa

Asclepias fascicularis, Narrow-Leaf Milkweed

Baccharis douglasii, Marsh Baccharis

Carex globosa, Globe Sedge

Lobelia dunnii serrata, Blue Lobelia

Mimulus cardinalis, Scarlet Monkey Flower

Mimulus guttatus, Seep Monkey Flower

Monardella antonina, Butterfly Mint Bush

Solidago spathulata, Coast Golden Rod

Stachys chamissonis, Magenta Butterfly Flower

Zauschneria septentrionalis, Mattole River White Leaf Fuchsia

A more formal California native garden

Linum lewisii, Blue Flax

Epipactis gigantea, Stream Orchid

Erigeron 'Wayne Roderick' Daisy

Fragaria chiloensis, Sand Strawberry

Juncus dubius

Myrica californica, Wax Myrtle

Muhlenbergia rigens, Deer Grass

Penstemon 'Margarita BOP'

Potentilla glandulosa, Sticky Cinquefoil

Rosa californica, California wild rose

Scutella riaaustinae, Skullcap

A Vine? Good for covering an ugly fence or pretty arbor.

Vitis californica, California Grape

Some trees

Platanus racemosa, California sycamore

Populus fremontii X Calm, Fremont Cottonwood

Prunus virginiana demissa, Choke Cherry

Salix laevigata, Red Willow