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Plant tags

The plants we use most, on the same tag we leave in your yard. Filter by sun, water and natives.

Purple lavender flower spikes against a pale blue background

Lavender

Lavandula

  • Full sun
  • Low water
  • 2–3 ft tall

Fragrant, loved by bees, and happiest in soil that drains fast.

Mediterranean

How to read a tag

  • Sun

    Full sun is six or more hours of direct sun a day. Part shade is a few hours, or bright shade all day.

  • Water

    One drop is low water: after the first year, an occasional deep soak in summer does it for most. Two drops means a little more often.

  • Size

    How tall it gets when grown. We space plants for that size, so a new garden looks a little sparse for a season.

  • Stake

    Lime for one drop, blue for two, so you can read a bed from the sidewalk.

All the tags

8 plants

A large gray-green fox tail agave beside a gravel path

Fox tail agave

Agave attenuata

  • Sun to part shade
  • Low water
  • 3–4 ft tall

Soft leaves with no spines, so it’s safe beside a path.

Mexico

CA native Clusters of small blue California lilac flowers

California lilac

Ceanothus

  • Full sun
  • Low water
  • 4–8 ft tall

Blue flowers in spring that bees cover. Skip summer water once it’s settled.

California native

Purple lavender flower spikes against a pale blue background

Lavender

Lavandula

  • Full sun
  • Low water
  • 2–3 ft tall

Fragrant, loved by bees, and happiest in soil that drains fast.

Mediterranean

Red and orange kangaroo paw flowers up close

Kangaroo paw

Anigozanthos

  • Full sun
  • Moderate water
  • 2–4 ft tall

Fuzzy flower stalks that hummingbirds visit for months.

Australia

Pale green aeonium rosettes with pink edges

Aeonium

Aeonium

  • Sun to part shade
  • Low water
  • 1–3 ft tall

Grows in winter and rests in summer, when it needs almost nothing.

Canary Islands

Red aloe flower stalks against a blurred green background

Aloe

Aloe

  • Full sun
  • Low water
  • 1–6 ft tall

Winter flowers on tall stalks, right when hummingbirds need them.

South Africa

Flat clusters of bright yellow yarrow flowers

Yellow yarrow

Achillea ‘Moonshine’

  • Full sun
  • Low water
  • 1–2 ft tall

Flat yellow flowers all summer over soft gray leaves.

Garden hybrid

CA native Coral-pink coral bells leaves in a mulched bed

Coral bells

Heuchera

  • Part shade
  • Moderate water
  • 1–2 ft tall

Colored leaves for the shady side of the house, under trees.

Some kinds are California natives

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