Native Landscape Planting Guide Starting a native garden doesn’t have to be complicated. This easy guide takes the Orange County Chapter guesswork out of which to use where. Simply choose one of the garden vignettes below and select from recommended native plants listed on the inside of your guide. Low Water Use Pollinator Friendly Locally Native CHOOSE YOUR DESIGN Five Easy Project Ideas for your Garden

Homey Habitat Colorful Entry Featuring a bench and bird bath, you can take a Make a statement in your entryway! Be sure to seat in this habitat and enjoy all of the bustling choose plants with a variety of colors. activity in your yard! Features: large pot, decorative round stones. Features: bench, bird bath, boulders.

Wildlife Walkway Pollinator Park Living Wall Take a stroll through your landscape. Use Add excitement to the parkway strip along your Designing your space vertically can add life to permeable materials for your pathway, such as ēƑĿDŽĚDžîNjċNjîēēĿŠijƎŕîŠƥƙƥĺîƥċƭƥƥĚƑǷĿĚƙîŠē your yard. Use bold colors, and interesting stepping stones or decomposed granite. other pollinators love. ƙĺîƎĚƙƥūŞîŒĚîǷîƥîƑĚîƙƥîŠēūƭƥɍ Features: permeable walkway, large boulders. Features: stepping stones and contrasting colors. Features: rain chain, swale, trellis. CHOOSE YOUR PLANTS

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Vignettes Outlined By Color 7’ 10’

Pollinator Living Colorful Homey Wildlife 14’ 14’ Park Wall Entry Habitat Walkway 5’ 17’

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4’ 7’ 1. Choose the design vignette ƥĺîƥċĚƙƥǶƥƙƥĺĚƙĺîƎĚîŠē 13’ size of your site.

2. Match the symbols with 24’

those in the plant list. 20’ 3. Select plants based on your site’s sun exposure. 4. Bonus points for choosing locally native plants! 8’ 33’

SUN Orange County Native Plant List Full Sun SYMBOL PLANT SPECIES LOCAL SUN WATER H / W COLOR WILDLIFE Part Sun TREES Shade Tecate Cypress / Hesperocyparis forbesii Y 15-25' 20' WATER Hollyleaf Cherry / Prunus ilicifolia Y 20' 15' Desert Willow / Chilopsis linearis N 15+' 10' Very Low Low Medium LARGE SHRUBS Toyon / Heteromeles arbutifolia Y 12' 12' CA Mountain Mahogany / Cercocarpus betuloides Y 12' 12' Lemonade Berry / Rhus integrifolia Y 10' 10' Scrub Oak / Quercus berberidifolia Y 6-12+' 8-12' CA Coffeeberry / Frangula californica Y 3-12' 3-12' MEDIUM SHRUBS Evergreen Chamise / Adenostoma fasciculatum Y 6' 6' Mallow / Malacothamnus fasciculatus Y 5' 6' Plants on Purple Sage / Salvia leucophylla Y 4' 5' this list have Deciduous White Sage / Salvia apiana Y 4' 4' been SMALL SHRUBS carefully Evergreen Showy Penstemon / Penstemon spectabilis Y 3-5' 2' California Buckwheat / Eriogonum fasciculatum Y 3' 4' selected by Ash Leaf Buckwheat / Eriogonum cinereum Y 3' 3' your local Catalina Silverlace / Constancea nevinii N 3' 3' Orange Desert Mallow / Sphaeralcea ambigua N 3' 3' County ¬îŠ'ĿĚijū¬ƭŠǷūDžĚƑɓBahiopsis laciniata Y 3' 3' Chapter. Deciduous Narrow Leaf Milkweed / Asclepias fascicularis Y 2' 2' LOW SHRUBS Evergreen Hummingbird Sage / Salvia Spathacea Y 2' 1' Yarrow / Achillia millefolium Y 1' 1' Conejo Buckwheat / Eriogonum crocatum N 1' 1'

Desert Wishbone / laevis Y 2' 2' Deciduous California Fuchsia / Epilobium canum Y 1' 1' SPREADING GROUNDCOVER Dana Point Buckwheat / Eriogonum 'Dana Point' Y 1' 4' Nicolas Chamise / Adenostoma 'Nicolas' N 1' 4' Woodland Strawberry / Fragaria vesca N <1' 2' GRASSES Deer Grass / Muhlenbergia rigens Y 4' 4' Thin Bent Grass / Agrostis pallens Y 2' spreads California Melic Grass / Melica imperfecta Y 2' 1' Clustered FIeld Sedge / Carex praegracilis Y 1' spreads SUCCULENTS Mojave Yucca / Yucca schidigera N 10' 5' Chaparral Yucca / Hesperoyucca whipplei Y 3' 4' Lance Leaf Dudleya / Dudleya lanceolata Y <1' 1' Fingertips / Dudleya edulis Y 1' 1' Visit VINES Calscape.org

Island Bush Snapdragon / Gambelia speciosa N 3' 10' ƥūǶŠēŞūƑĚ Evergreen Currant / Ribes viburnifolium N 3' 4' plants native to Southern Honeysuckle / Lonicera subspicata Y 2’ 8’ your area. BRING YOUR DESIGN TO LIFE

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Planting and Watering Give your new CA native landscape a healthy start by following our online planting and watering guides.

Garden plans and watercolor courtesy of Kathleen Catton, Visit CNPS.org/gardening to learn more! Feochadan Land Design. Graphic illustrations by Randi Gunder, Goldenscape Designs.