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        • Directions to our California native plant nursery in Escondido.
      • A native plant nursery grows weird plants!
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    • Nature of California
      • Fire landscape
        • Tolerance of fire
        • Erosion after a wildfire
        • Post fire
      • California Soils
        • Amendments and mulch in a native landscape
        • Fertilizer and native plants
        • Drainage in a native garden
        • Soils with boron
        • Serpentine plants
        • alkali soil
        • sand
        • adobe soil
        • Mycorrhiza
      • California's ecosystem
        • California Plant Associations
        • Weeds and the Effects on the Native Ecosystem
      • California Climate
        • Cold and Hardiness of plants
        • Cold in California?
      • Plant Communities
        • Plant Communities of California
          • Chaparral
          • Northern Juniper Woodland
          • Alkali Sink,California Plant Communities
          • Alpine Fell-Fields, Plant Communities of California
          • Coastal Prairie, Plant Communities of California
          • Coastal Salt Marsh, Plant Communities of California
          • Coastal Strand
          • Creosote Bush Scrub
          • Freshwater Marsh
          • Great Basin Sagebrush
          • Joshua Tree Woodland
          • Mountain Meadow
          • Sagebrush Scrub
          • Shadscale Scrub
          • Valley Grassland
          • Central (Foothill) Oak Woodland
          • Coast Redwood Forest
            • Pictures of the California coast redwood forest plant community
          • Coastal Sage Scrub
          • California's Mixed-evergreen Forest
          • Northern Coastal Scrub
          • Northern Oak Woodland
          • Pinyon-Juniper Woodland
          • Riparian rivers and creeks
          • Southern Oak Woodland
          • Closed-cone Pine Forest
          • Douglas-Fir Forest
          • Lodgepole Pine Forest
          • Red Fir Forest
          • Subalpine Forest
          • Yellow Pine Forest
          • The Bristle cone pine forest community
        • Communities by Zip Code
          • California Plant communities by zipcode
          • California Plant communities by zipcode 93000
          • Southern California Plant communities by zipcode
          • California Plant communities by zipcode
          • Plant communities of California from San Francisco to Sacramento. Coastal sage scrub, oak woodland, lodgepole pine, and yellow pine forest plant communities of Northern California.
          • Plant communities of 89000, the zipcodes of the Sierra County Area.
        • California Plants Communities by City
          • California cities that start with B, zipcode and plant community.
          • California coastal sage scrub, valley grassland, shadscale, chaparral, and forest communities including Fresno, Fullerton, Escondido, and Eureka.
          • California cities that start with A, zipcode and plant community.
            • California cities that start with C, zipcode and plant community.
            • California Plant community lintings for the cities P and Quincy.
          • California cities that start with L
          • California cities that start with R, zipcode and plant community.
          • California Plant communities by zipcode
          • California Plant communities by zipcode
          • California cities that start with T, zipcode and plant community.
          • California cities that start with S, zipcode and plant community.
          • California Plant communities by zipcode
          • California cities that start with U to Z, zipcode and plant community.
          • California cities that start with N, zipcode and plant community.
        • Habitats of California
      • Native Plants
        • Ceanothus
          • Ceanothus or Mountain Lilac flowering times.
          • Native Southern California Mountain Lilacs, Ceanothus
          • Central California Mountain Lilacs
          • A video of Ceanothus Blue Jeans
        • Native vines
        • Flat native ground covers
          • Two feet ground cover
          • One-two foot ground covers
          • Lawn Substitutes
        • Manzanitas
          • Northern California Manzanitas
          • California Manzanitas, Arctostaphylos
          • Southern California Manzanitas
        • Monkeys
        • Penstemons
          • California Penstemons for wetter areas
        • Currants and Gooseberries
        • Sage Salvias
          • Other Sages
        • Sexy flowers
        • Wildflower Seeds
        • Native trees
        • California Fuchsia
        • Drought tolerant
        • California Native Oaks I
          • How to take care of your California oak
            • Planting under a California native oak
          • California Native Oaks II
          • Native California Oaks III
          • California Native Oaks IV
        • Honeysuckles
        • Tart Recipe
        • Native California Buckwheats
      • Community Zip codes
        • California plant communities of Coastal Northern California.
    • Garden DIY
      • Build a bird bath
      • Blue bird house
      • How to build a simple fence
        • How to build wire fences for horses, deer or pasture.
          • Here are some examples of a field gate.
      • Fish pond.
      • Garden bench
      • How to build a cheap and simple greenhouse
        • How to build a cheap poly greenhouse.
        • Greenhouse vents and ventilation of hot houses. Simple and not simple ways of removing heat from a hot house.
        • Un-sticking two stuck pipes.
      • Rock wall.
      • How to Buy a Digital Camera For Wildlife Pictures
      • How to build simple steps. What a pain.
        • How to build some simple and cheap wooden steps.
      • Permaculture
        • look to nature to see how to arrange plants and what plants to utilize.
        • An old apple orchard
        • Plants that should be in every California garden
        • Our experiences with Apples in a California orchard
        • Some tips on Potatoes in a California garden.
        • Companion planting with vegetables.
        • Brassicas intercropping
      • How to build a garden gate. A basic plan in pictures.
      • Garden furniture, how to build a patio table from pallets.
      • Examples in pictures of wooden deck fences or hand rails.
      • Garden walls
      • Garden furniture, how to build a picnic or garden table.
      • Garden furniture, how to build a patio chair from pallets.
      • solar dryer
      • cheap bird house
      • Concrete farm wall
      • Pallet gate.
    • Birds and the Bees.
      • A California Wildlife Garden
        • Striped Skunk, Mephitis mephitis
      • Critter Problems

        • Desert Cottontail Rabbit
        • Pedicularis densiflora, Indian Warrior images, pictures or video.
        • Western Gray Squirrel
      • Deer Specific Problems: native plants allow you to leer at the deer
      • Bird garden
      • Hummingbirds
        • Rufous hummingbird
        • Costa's Hummingbird
        • Anna's Hummingbird pictures
        • Allen's Hummingbird pictures and description
        • Black-chinned, Hummingbird, Archilochus alexandri
      • Butterfly plants in California
      • Birds and Butterflies
      • California Birds
        • House Finch,Carpodacus mexicanus
        • Lesser Goldfinch,Carduelis psaltria
        • Purple Finch, Carpodacus purpureus
        • A little video about Rock Wren, Salpinctes obsoletus
        • Olive-sided Flycatcher,Contopus cooperi
        • Western Wood-Pewee,Contopus sordidulus
        • Pacific-slope Flycatcher,Empidonax difficilis
        • Ash-throated Flycatcher,Myiarchus cinerascens
        • Western Kingbird,Tyrannus verticalis
        • Hammond's Flycatcher, Empidonax hammondii
        • Western Scrub-Jay, Aphelocoma californica
        • Yellow-billed Magpie, Pica nuttalli
        • Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Regulus calendula
        • California Thrasher, Toxostoma Curvirostre
        • White-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis
        • Red-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis
        • Band-tailed Pigeon,Columba fasciata
        • Mourning Dove,Zenaida macroura
        • California Quail,Callipepla californica
        • Loggerhead Shrike,Lanius ludovicianus
        • Phainopepla,Phainopepla nitens
        • California Towhee,Pipilo crissalis
        • Chipping Sparrow,Spizella passerina
        • Spotted Towhee,Pipilo maculatus
        • Lark Sparrow,Chondestes grammacus
        • Fox Sparrow,Passerella iliaca
        • Sage Sparrow,Amphispiza belli
        • Rufus-crowned Sparrow,Aimophila ruficeps
        • Savanna Sparrow,Passerculus sandwichensis
        • Song Sparrow,Melospiza melodia
        • Dark-eyed Junco,Junco hyemalis
        • White crowned Sparrow
        • Violet-green Swallow,Tachycineta thalassina
        • Cliff Swallow,Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
        • Northern Rough-winged Swallow,Stelgidopteryx serripennis
        • Western Tanager,Piranga ludoviciana
        • Western Bluebird, Sialia mexicana
        • Hermit Thrush,Catharus guttatus
        • American Robin,Turdus migratorius
        • Yellow Warbler,Dendroica petechia
        • Wilson's Warbler,Wilsonia canadensis
        • Orange-crowned warbler, Vermivora celata
        • Ladder-backed Woodpecker,Picoides scalaris
        • Downy Woodpecker,Picoides pubescens
        • Hairy Woodpecker, Picoides villosus
        • Acorn Woodpecker, Melanerpes formicivorus
        • Red-naped Sapsucker,Sphyrapicus nuchalis
        • Red-breasted Sapsucker,Sphyrapicus ruber
        • Northern Flicker,Colaptes auratus
        • Lazuli Bunting, Passerina amoena
        • Red Winged Blackbird
        • Black-headed Grosbeak, Pheucticus melanocephalus
        • The wrentit is often found in chaparral, and coast al scrub. A cute and noisy little bird.
        • The brewer's blackbird
        • Hooded Oriole, Icterus cucullatus
        • Gold Crowned Sparrow lives in California in the winter
        • American Crow,Corvus Caurinus
        • Chestnut-backed chickadee
        • Oak Titmouse
        • Bullock's Oriole, Icterus bullockii
        • Say's phoebe
        • The Cassin's kingbird
        • Plant communities near water are used by the Black Phoebe, Sayornis nigicans
        • Bushtits, Psaltriparus minimus like to forage in woodland habitats
        • The Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri, likes dense forest.
        • Family Corvidae, Jay's and Magpies
        • The Bewick's Wren, Thryomanes bewickii
        • Lawrence's Goldfinch, Carduelis lawrencei
        • The Lewis's woodpecker, Melanerpes lewis likes insects and forest.
        • The Nuttall's woodpecker, Picoides nuttallii will nest in a Sycamore in your garden.
        • The Swainson's Thrush, Catharus ustulatus likes leaf litter.
        • The House Wren, Troglodytes aedon
        • Scott's Oriole, Icterus parisorum
      • Butterflies
        • Buckeye Butterfly, Junonia coenia
        • Callippe Fritillary Butterfly, Speyeria callippe
        • Northern White Skipper or Great Basin White Skippe r butterfly (Heliopetes ericetorum)
        • Mylitta Mylitta Crescent, Phyciodes mylitta
        • Comstock's Silverspot Butterfly, Comstock's Fritil lary Butterfly, Speyeria callippe comstocki
        • Erynnis tristis Mournful Duskywing
        • American Painted Lady Butterfly in a Calfironia na tive garden.
        • Common white butterfly
        • Orange Sulfur butterfly
        • Acmon Blue Butterfly is easy to attract to a nativ e garden.
        • Attract a California Dog-Face butterfly into your garden.
        • Mourning Cloak Butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa
        • Striated Queen Butterfly
        • Attract the Lorquin's Admiral Butterfly in a Calif ornia garden
        • Bramble Green Hairstreak, Bramble Hairstreak, Gree n Hairstreak, Callophrys dumetorum
        • Monarch Butterfly, Danaus plexippus
        • The painted lady butterfly in California
        • California Sister Butterfly
        • Tail Copper Butterfly (Lycaena (Tharsalea) arota) in the Garden
        • Plants used by the west coast lady butterfly and p ictures of west coast lady.
        • Fritillary Butterfly, Subfamily Argynninae
        • Attract Chalcedon checkerspot butterfly
        • Anise Swallowtail Butterfly
        • the common checkered skipper butterfly likes mallo ws
        • The California Tortoise Shell Butterfly
        • Red Admiral Butterfly Vanessa atalanta
        • Sandhill Skipper, Polities sabuleti, butterfly
        • Harford's Sulphur Butterfly, Colias harfordii
        • Glaucopsyche lygdamus - Silvery Blue
        • California Hairstreak
        • the western tiger swallowtail on plants with pictures
        • Ceanothus Silk Moth, Hyalophora euryalus pictures
        • Northern Checkerspot
        • Sara's Orange-tip, Western Orange Tip, Pacific Orangetip
        • Bumblebee Moth
        • Chlosyne gabbii, Gabb's Checkerspot
        • The Mormon Metalmark Butterfly in california
        • the white-lined sphinx moth and larva, Hiles lineata
        • Pale Swallowtail, Papilio eurymedon pictures in the garden
        • Hoary Comma, Polygonia graclis along a trail
        • Gray hairstreak, Strymon melinus
        • Satyrium tetra, Mountain Mahogany Hairstreak
        • Brown elfin, Callophrys augustinus
        • Callophrys (Mitoura) spinetorum, Thicket hairstreak
        • Satyrium saepium, Hedgerow hairstreak
        • Common Branded Skipper, Hesperia comma
        • Fiery Skipper, Hylephila phyleus
        • Woodland Skipper, Ochlodes sylvanoides
        • Mormon Fritillary, Speyeria mormonia
        • Great Purple Hairstreak or Great Blue Hairstreak, Atlides halesus
        • One-eyed sphinx moth, Smerinthus cerisyi
        • Butterfly garden.
        • Spring Azure Butterfly, Celastrina ladon
      • Reptiles and Amphibians
        • The Coast Horned lizard, Phrynosoma cornatum
        • Southern Alligator lizard, Elgaria multicarinata
        • Western Whiptail, Cnemidophorus tigris
        • Side-splotched lizard
        • Western fence lizard
        • Zebra Tailed Lizard
        • Common Kingsnake
        • Batrachoseps nigriventris
        • Aneides lugubris
        • Anniella pulchra
        • California Toad
        • Sierran Treefrog
        • Rattlesnake
        • Gopher Snake
        • Whipsnake
        • Garter Snakes
        • Chuckwalla
      • Small Wildlife Garden
      • Pocket Gophers ( Thomomys bottae)
      • Native pollinators
        • Mason Bees
        • Anthophora
        • Andrena
        • Tachinid Flies
        • Criorhina
        • Syrphid Fly
        • Synhalonia
        • California Velvety tree Ant
        • Nomada, Cuckoo bees
        • Halictini, Sweat Bees
        • Bombylius major
        • Bembix
        • Long-horned bee
      • Bumblebees
        • Bombus californicus
        • Bombus edwardsii
        • Bombus crotchii
        • Bombus vosnesenskii
        • California Carpenter Bees
      • Insect predators
        • Gasteruption
        • Lagioglossum is a group of Sweat bees
        • Stenopogoninae, A robber fly
      • Coyote
      • Browse plants
    • Native gardens
      • Native Gardening
        • Plant your native
          • Plant 10 native plants in 10 minutes
          • Installing an irrigation system in a native garden
            • Drip Irrigation
          • When To Plant
        • Help for new gardeners of native plants
          • What is the nature of your garden?
          • Defining garden conditions in a native garden
          • Replace your lawn with native plants
        • Maintain Your Native Garden
          • Watering California native plants
            • Sample Plant list of drought plants
          • Some California Weeds
            • Weed Control, herbicides and California native plants
          • Diseases and native plants
          • Pruning native plants
        • Hedges, hedge rows and native plants.
        • Fragrant path in a native garden
        • Native plant restoration of California. Simple?
          • Restoration of a native ecosystem
        • Some simple Native garden design help
          • Easy native garden design: Dry loam
          • Easy native garden in dry clay
          • A native garden in wet clay.
          • Easy native garden design: Wet Sand
          • Native plants for wet Loam
            • Easy native garden design: Dry Sand
          • An easy native garden in a wet sunny sandy spot, if one exists.
        • Native plants and vegetables
      • How to plant
      • Design Your Garden
        • Designing a native garden using companion plants
        • Native Plant Communities and Companion Plantings
        • Designing a native garden using plant strategies
        • Designing for a California native garden outside of California
        • Things not to do if you want native plants to live a long life.
        • Design by plant community your native garden
        • California native landscaping. Design your own native garden.
      • Garden Examples
        • How to plant a slope to help with erosion.
        • California native plants in containers
        • Native Garden Examples
          • Steve's native garden in Bakersfield
          • California native plant garden examples
          • California native garden in Los Osos beach sand.
          • Las Pilitas: California Native Plants, design, native landscaping
          • California native plant garden in San Diego area
          • A small California native plant garden in Los Angeles
          • Land conservancy has used our plants on many of their creek restorations
          • California coastal bluff restoration
          • Native Landscaping of your garden or yard.
          • San Diego native plant garden
          • Restoring a riparian area for San Luis obispo
          • An old customers native garden.
          • A restoration in Coastal Sage Scrub
          • Native Landscaping of your Garden in Bay Area serpentine slope.
          • California native plant garden in San Luis Obispo
          • California native plant garden in beach sand on the Nipomo Mesa.
          • San Luis Obispo Native sage Garden
          • California native plant garden in Arroyo Grande
          • Examples of some native gardens from Argia Designs
          • Native landscaping in Astacadero, Paso Robles, Northern San Luis Obispo county.
          • Here's a list of California Native Plants planted at about 7500 feet in openings in the Yellow Pine Forest.
          • A yard conversion to native plants in Los Angeles.
        • Restoration of a quarry
        • Native garden plan
      • Dry shade plants
        • Full shade
        • Part shade
      • Native plants that may tolerate deer and you may survive a fire.
      • Native Plant Myths
      • Native Herbs
      • Edible?
      • Roots of native plants
        • Frankia
        • Mycorrhiza
          • Roots
        • Nitrogen fixing
      • Propagation
      • Class Notes
      • Quizzes
        • Plant quiz
          • Answers
        • Fire quiz
          • Answers
        • Climate Quiz
          • Answers to climate
        • Flower quiz
          • Flower parts answers
        • Leaf quiz
          • answers to the leaf
        • plant names
          • answers
      • Tidy Garden
      • How to key out
      • Landscaping class
      • Lawn cost
      • Landscaping ideas
      • Resource Islands
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    • Selected Native Plants
      • Drought plants
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for a Oakland area garden.
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for a Poway area garden.
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for a San Luis Obispo area garden.
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for a Yorba Linda area garden.
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for a San Jose area garden.
        • Drought Tolerant Native Plants
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for a Los Angeles area garden.
        • Ventura-Oxnard garden.
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for a Santa Barbara and Goleta area garden.
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for California Bay area garden.
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for a Vista or San Marcos area garden.
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for a Long Beach area garden.
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for a San Diego area garden.
        • Drought Tolerant Plants for a Encinitas area garden.
        • Drought tolerant plants for a Thousand Oaks area garden.
      • School garden
      • San Joaquin Valley
      • Los Angeles plants
      • San Diego plants
      • Temecula plants
      • San Jose Plants
      • Berkeley and Oakland
      • Some of our native plant introductions.
    • Native Plant Pictures
      • May Flowers
        • A watered native summer garden, or next to a pond, or watering with drip irrigation.
      • Wildflower Pictures
      • Winter color
      • November Flowers
      • August Flowers
      • February Flowers
      • Plant communities.
    • Blog
      • Website down.
      • Big Foot
      • Rain!
      • Thanks For Your Support
      • Bert's Memorial Open House Change
      • Bert's Memorial Open House
      • In Memory of Bert Wilson
      • Snark Hunting
      • Do you plant native plants? Do you water native plants?
      • Drought and frost damage.
      • Ah poop!
      • How cold were you?
      • Who are we to you?
      • Time change
      • Help with HOA's
      • Native plant doofuses
      • Ferrets as Toy Poodles
      • Fall is here
      • Sammy the Skunk
      • The newest format.
      • Weird Weather
      • Customer requesting help.
      • Needed Photos
      • How to use the website.
      • Planting native plants in summer.
      • What's happenen?
      • Wildland Photos
      • Your Native Garden Photos
      • Smoke
      • What to look for when you buy a native plant.
      • Phone calls
      • Yellow leaves on Ceanothus
      • Things happening
      • Light Snow
      • Drought tolerant, low growing and is fire retardant?
      • Symbolism
      • Penny's native plant picks for Los Angeles
      • e-book
      • Europeans like our plants.
      • Wind breaks
      • Boring would be good.
      • 25 native plants for the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys
      • Winter Warriors
      • Decorating with stump
      • What is a natural plant?
      • What, What?
      • Twenty easy native plants for Los Angeles.
      • Ten easy native plants for the Bay Area.
      • How do these dormant plants know it rained?
      • Bird id.
      • New Search Tool
      • Bertisms
      • Out the Office window.
      • Use of our content.
      • Plant a little early this year.
      • How we build our pages
      • Hong Kong Plants for California?
      • My Ribes is dead so I pulled it out!
      • Page Format
      • More videos
      • Chipmunk
      • Green Buckwheat
      • More about movies and watering.
      • The Two Salvia 'Pozo Blue' that lived
      • Boring
      • Mowing weeds
      • Road Rage
      • Some other things we do.
      • Western Fence lizard and Racer Snake
      • Soda Labels
      • Rufous or Allen
      • Problems behind scenes of the website.
      • Our attempt at a blog.
    • The News
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      • 2016 Wildfire
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