| Featured Plants at Saturday's Sale
Below are some of the many natives we have available for this Saturday's sale. Fall is usually the best time of the year to transplant natives.
Penstemon azureus... low-growing blue flowered California hardy perennial
Salvia spathacea... often called the Hummingbird Salvia... it's also featured on the Davis 100 All-Stars as a great garden plant, for its low maintenance and low water needs
Zauschneria 'Sierra Salmon'... the California Fucshia, this one in a salmon color blooming now... it's a hummingbird magnet.
Monardella villosa.... often called 'Coyote Mint' it requires little water with its blue flowers and perennial leaves.
Ceanothus... many different native varieties... and one non-native (Tuxedo... a sport from Ireland) that has almost black leaves and white flowers in Fall.
Some of the many non-natives ready for your Fall planting:
Achillea millefolium 'Cerise Queen'... this one is an eyepopper with its cerise coloring
Erigeron karvinskianus... 'Santa Barbara Daisy'; a hardy low growing almost always flowering plant some would probably call a native.... also on the Davis All-Star 100 list.
Ruellia "Chi Chi Pink".... often called Brazilian petunia; and easy care flowering low shrubCoreopsis... several varieties available of this long-time garden favorite.
Rudbeckia 'Tiger Gold'...still blooming and low growing for a great head-start for next year's garden.
Phygelius ... we have several varieties and colors of this easy to grow flowering plant |
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We also have a wide selection of winter veggies ready to transplant into your garden.
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Erigonum umbellatum (Sulfur Buckwheat)
 By Jess Kolman
Many hikers will recognize Sulfur buckwheat, which paints hillsides in much of our state with its bright yellow blossoms in spring. Though it is chiefly a mountain dweller, it is highly adaptable and thrives in Bay Area gardens, where it will flower into summer.
Its oval leaves form silvery mats only a foot or so high and spreading to about 3' wide, and in winter these may take on a nice purple tone. The copious flower stalks rise only slightly above the mats and carry sunny yellow flower-balls that look like the native gardener's answer to marigolds. Sulfur buckwheat is a much tougher and less demanding plant than that old garden  staple, however, and is vastly more useful to wildlife, attracting bees, butterflies and birds from miles around.
Paint yellow swaths in your garden with this cheery flower, or use it as a golden lining in the front of a perennial bed. It can take sun or part shade, and needs little to no summer water.
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