Our Plants (List)

Shooting Stars are one of California’s most ornate wildflowers. From late winter through spring they brighten trail sides with tightly bunched lavender flowers rising above prostrate leaves. Shooting stars are so named for their swept back flower petals trailing behind each flower like little comet tails. In the garden shooting…

California’s many fern species are generally dormant for a good portion of the year, grow in continually moist settings, or both. Few evergreen species grow in the summer drought so typical of our state. The California wood fern is one of those exceptional summer-dry evergreens. One encounters this attractive fern…

The liveforevers are generally found in coastal settings. There are actually very few species found more than a few miles from the Pacific. Often clinging to sandstone cliffs, they benefit from the cool, moist ocean air. Dudleya’s always grow as a rosette of fleshy leaves, which vary somewhat in shape…