POLLINATOR PLANT LIST hummingbirds

Photo by Shakuntala Makhijani, Follow @shakutiebirds on Instagram Aloe × spinosissima Arbutus ‘Marina’ spider aloe Marina madrone

This perennial evergreen rosette has This small evergreen tree has shining dark- succulent leaves studded with creamy “teeth.” green foliage, beautiful coppery-brown It’s leaves sprout dramatic spikes of dark-red stems, clusters of rosy-pink, urn-shaped flowers in winter, making it a showy and flowers and attractive red fruits. It is one of sculptural plant. the best small trees for our area.

Size: One-foot tall mounding to Size: Slowly grows to twenty-five two to three feet with age or thirty feet in our area Sun/Shade: Sun or part shade Sun/Shade: Sun or part shade Pruning: Remove spent flower stems Pruning: Shape stems to either single in spring/summer or multi trunk as desired; remove lower branches to Water Medium to low display attractive muscular ...... stems and peeling bark Water: Medium to low Alstroemeria ‘Koncajoli’ Inca Joli ™ Inca Joli ™ Peruvian lily ...... Peruvian lilies are tough, low-water Arctostaphylos densiflora‘Howard McMinn’ perennials that spread underground and Howard McMinn’s manzanita produce beautiful flowers in spring that are long lasting in both the garden and This is a medium-sized, evergreen native flower arrangements. Without irrigation, shrub with attractive bark and a profusion their foliage dies back in summer and then of pinkish flowers in late winter and early resprouts with cool, moist fall weather. spring. More adaptable to gardens than other manzanita species, it also provides Size: One and a half to two-feet nectar for resident Anna’s hummingbirds tall and native bees. Sun/Shade: Sun or part shade Size: Slow growing to six-feet- Pruning: Remove spent stems in summer tall and wide Water: Medium to low Sun/Shade: Sun or part shade ...... Pruning: Shape stems as desired and remove lower branches to display attractive Anigozanthos flavidus muscular stems and bark. Cut back to woody stems at base to shape in winter kangaroo paw Water: Medium (for good bloom) to low

This is an evergreen perennial with spiky, vertical foliage that is useful ...... for its shape when used with rounded plants. In summer, the plants produce curious, three-foot-tall stalks of furry, “paw-like” flowers that open to green inside. Callistemon viminalis ‘Little John’ Little John bottlebrush Size: Two-feet tall and three feet in bloom This dwarf form of the weeping bottlebrush has evergreen, gray-green foliage and showy, Sun/Shade: Sun dark-red flowers on a compact, rounded Pruning: Remove any winter- plant. It has flowers in fall, winter and damaged foliage in spring spring, and it is a tough and adaptable plant Water: Medium for sunny, low-maintenance areas. Size: Four to five-feet-tall and wide (not three-by-three) in our area Sun/Shade: Full sun best Pruning: Little to no pruning needed except perhaps an occasional damaged or errant stem Water: Low

For more information visit arboretum.ucdavis.edu Correa reflexa‘Carpenter Rocks’ Echeveria ‘Imbricata’ Carpenter Rocks Australian fuchsia Imbricata hens and chicks This is a small, spreading, evergreen shrub This is a tough and hardy succulent with clasping, heart-shaped green leaves and that forms beautiful, blue-gray rosettes dangling, bell-like chartreuse and vermillion of leaves not unlike the shape of a rose flowers produced in winter and very early flower. The base of the plant produces spring. It needs fast drainage and likes poor “pups” that grow and enlarge into a rocky soils. It attracts hummingbirds. cluster of plants over time. It produces hook-shaped flower stalks of pink and Size: Three to four-feet-tall and yellow flowers. wide Sun/Shade: For shade especially on Size: Six to eight-inches-tall slopes spreading over time Pruning: Tip prune when young to encourage branching, Sun/Shade: Shade or morning sun in and prune to shape as it ages our area Water: Moderate to low depending on exposure Pruning: No pruning needed Water: Medium to medium low ...... Chilopsis linearis desert willow Epilobium canum, cultivars California fuchsia This is a fast-growing, small deciduous tree native to desert washes of the southwest that has pink or white, showy, This is a California native perennial with gray, two-lipped flowers and narrow leaves. It tolerates silver and green-foliaged varieties and tubular, heat and drought. orange-red flowers in summer and fall.

Size: Fifteen to twenty feet Size: One to three-feet-tall Sun/Shade: Full sun depending on variety and spreading over time Pruning: Tip prune when young to encourage branching, and Sun/Shade: Sun prune to shape as it ages; Pruning: Mow to the ground in winter naturally multi-trunked Water: Low Water: Low to medium ...... Gambelia speciosa ‘Firecracker’ Dicliptera suberecta firecracker gambelia velvet honeysuckle This is a medium-sized, fast-growing shrub This is a beautiful summer bloomer with with fuzzy, lime-green foliage and lipstick-red silky, velvet-gray leaves and many clusters of flowers in summer and fall. It is amenable tubular orange flowers (reported cold hardy to shaping and use as a hedge. It may be to USDA zone 7a). It is low growing and long damaged in cold winters but will quickly flowering into the fall. recover.

Size: Two-feet-tall and wide Size: Compact habit, three-feet- Sun/Shade: For sun or part shade tall and wide Pruning: Prune in February to remove Sun/Shade: Full sun or part shade cold-damaged growth when Pruning: Prune to shape, may be the danger of frost is past; in fall, remove spent necessary to clean up frost flower stalks if desired damage in our area. Water: Medium to high is best Water: Low once established

For more information visit arboretum.ucdavis.edu Justicia spicigera Grevillea ‘Winpara Gem’ Mexican honeysuckle

This is a spreading shrub with pale- Winpara Gem grevillea green foliage and narrow, orange, tubular This medium-sized, evergreen shrub from flowers nearly year round. It is great Australia has finely-divided, silvery leaves for providing color to shady gardens in and vivid, red clusters of flowers in fall hot summer climates and for attracting and winter. hummingbirds.

Size: Six to eight-feet-tall and Size: Three-feet-tall and wide wide Sun/Shade: Partial shade or morning Sun/Shade: Full sun or part shade sun Pruning: Prune to shape Pruning: Prune to shape and to induce branching Water: Low once established Water: Low to medium

...... Hesperaloe parviflora coral yucca Kniphofia‘Christmas Cheer’ Christmas cheer poker plant This tough, upright succulent with long, narrow leaves and interesting, curling This large, herbaceous perennial is unique in providing brilliant white hairs on the edges is useful as an flowers in winter. Its arching, apple-green accent in low-water mixed plantings. In stems form a loose mound of foliage from spring and summer, long wands of long- which emerge long stalks topped with lasting, coral-pink flowers rise to two to orange and yellow tubular flowers. three feet above the foliage. Size: Foliage two to three feet Size: Foliage three-feet-tall and with flowers to five feet wide, to five feet in bloom Sun/Shade: Full sun Sun/Shade: Full sun Pruning: Remove spent flower Pruning: Remove old flower stalks if desired stalks when desired Water: Low Water: Low once established ...... Peritoma arborea (syn. Isomeris) Lonicera standishii bladderpod winter honeysuckle This medium-sized shrub from the southwest deserts has gray foliage and This is a semi-deciduous shrub with dangling, yellow flowers practically all year upright rigid stems that produce small, that are followed by inflated fruit. white, deliciously fragrant, one-half-inch blooms in January. Its stems can be cut for Size: Five-feet-tall and wide indoor fragrance. Sun/Shade: Full sun or part shade Size: Five or six-feet-tall and Pruning: Prune to shape and to wide keep compact Sun/Shade: Full sun or part shade Water: Low Pruning: Prune to shape after bloom ...... Water: Medium low

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For more information visit arboretum.ucdavis.edu Pelargonium sidoides Ribes malvaceum ‘Montara Rose’ garnet geranium Montara Rose chapparal currant This evergreen perennial has lovely, heart-shaped silvery This is a small to mid-sized California leaves and delicate clusters of native shrub with lobed, dark-green deep, ruby-red flowers that can leaves and dark, rose-red flowers in appear almost black in low light. winter that provides nectar for our resident hummingbirds. It may be Size: One to two-feet- summer deciduous with low water. tall and wide Sun/Shade: Full sun or part Size: Five–feet-tall and wide shade Sun/Shade: Full sun or part shade Pruning: Remove old flower stalks as desired and prune to Pruning: Prune to shape after flowering shape Water: Low water Water: Medium low to low ...... Russelia equisetiformis Penstemon ‘Schoenholzeri’ coral fountain firebird penstemon This beautiful large perennial has This is an herbaceous perennial with long, nearly leafless, arching, bright- narrow, bright-green leaves that blooms green foliage that is topped with a in the spring with bright-red flowers with profusion of red, tubular flowers in white centers. It blooms again sporadically summer and fall. in summer and fall. Size: Three-feet-tall and Size: Three-feet-tall and wide wide when in bloom Sun/Shade: Full sun Sun/Shade: Full sun Pruning: May be deciduous in cold winters; prune off Pruning: Deadhead spent flowers to increase rebloom and damaged stems after danger of frost is past and it cut old foliage to ground in late winter will re-sprout from the base Water: Medium best for good bloom Water: Low water ...... Rhodophiala bifida Salvia chamaedryoides red Argentine amaryllis germander sage This is an unusual, tough, bulbous plant This is a small, evergreen shrub with with deep-red, horizontal, bell-like flowers silvery-gray foliage. Its intense, true-blue in summer and fall followed by narrow, flowers are heaviest in spring and fall but dark-green leaves in winter and spring. Its it will have some flowers all year long. It foliage is deciduous in summer. spreads underground over time. Size: Twelve to eighteen- Size: Two-feet-tall and inches-tall spreading to three-feet- Sun/Shade: Full sun or part shade wide Pruning: Remove spent leaves in Sun/Shade: Sun spring Pruning: Deadhead to encourage Water: Low water rebloom and increase branching Water: Low (although blooms better with medium) ......

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For more information on visit arboretum.ucdavis.edu Salvia leucantha ‘Midnight’ Salvia ‘Violin Music’ purple Mexican bush sage Violin Music autumn sage This is a large perennial that blooms in late This is a spreading shrub that gets summer and fall with showy, furry, purple covered with lilac-violet flowers that flowers and stems. It is beautiful have contrasting dark calyces and stems. It blooms heavily in spring and fall with Size: Four-feet-tall by five-feet- sporadic flowers in summer. wide; spreading over time Sun/Shade: Sun Size: Compact, two to three- feet-tall by three to Pruning: Cut back to basal stems four-feet-wide after bloom Sun/Shade: Sun Water: Low to medium Pruning: Prune annually by one third to keep compact ...... and bushy Water: Low Salvia spathacea ...... hummingbird sage

This is a spreading, California native Trichostema lanatum perennial with broad, triangular leaves woolly blue curls with a pineapple-like fragrance. Its flower stalks grow one to two feet tall This desirable, small, shrubby native with red flowers in whorls often with has aromatic, narrow, dark-green colorful bracts below. leaves that are white below and fuzzy, dark-blue flower spikes with Size: One to two-feet-tall arching, showy stamens in spring and slowly spreading and summer. It needs fast drainage over time and is best on slopes and rocky soils. Sun/Shade: Sun or shade Pruning: Can refresh foliage by cutting to ground in fall Size: Three to four-feet- tall by five-feet-wide Water: Low water Sun/Shade: Sun ...... Pruning: Remove old flower stalks to encourage rebloom; prune to shape when young Salvia greggii ‘Red Swing’ Water: Low water Red Swing autumn sage Water: low to medium water This is a tough and attractive sage with upright stems and bright orange-red ...... flowers and dark contrasting calyces.

Size: Two to three-feet-tall by three-feet-wide. Sun/Shade: Tolerates hot afternoon summer sun Pruning: Prune to increase branching and bushiness in early spring Water: Low

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