Common name:Patriot TM Lantana Classic-Passion
Botanical name:Lantana Patriot Classic Passion
Patriot TM Lantanas are an excellent choice for vibrant summer color and butterfly gardening. They are very heat tolerant. They need regular irrgation, but allow to dry out between waterings. 'Passion' is a mounding form (3.5'x3.5'); blooms are hot raspberry pink with pink-lavender edging. Frost tender.
Common name:Common Yarrow, Milfoil
Botanical name:Achillea millefolium
Highlighting this perennial are spreading mats of fern-like rosettes, along with deeply divided leaves of a green or grey green color. In this form, the flowers are usually a white tone. Stems can reach 2-3ft above foliage. The yarrow propagates easily from rooted cuttings or division, which should be performed in the early spring or fall. Following bloom, one should dead head the plant and divide the clumps when it appears crowded.
Common name:Sea Lavender, Statice
Botanical name:Limonium perezii
This mounding shrub will reach about 3' high and has large, dark green leaves with small blue and purple flowers that bloom in spring and summer.
Common name:Compact Myrtle
Botanical name:Myrtus communis 'Compacta'
This evergreen shrub is 6' high x 5' wide with aromatic leaves. It blooms with white sweet-scented flowers followed by bluish/black berries. It can be grown in sun or partial shade; well drained soil is essential. 'Compacta' has smaller leaves and is often used for edges and low formal hedges.
Common name:Petite Pink Oleander
Botanical name:Nerium oleander 'Petite Pink'
Oleander is an evergreen shrub with moderate to fast growth. Leaves are narrow, 4-12 in. long, dark green, leathery, and glossy, attractive in all seasons. Flowers are in clusters on branch ends; blooms from late spring through fall. Warning: Poisonous 'Petite Pink' grows 3-6' high and wide with pink blooms.
Common name:Shiny Xylosma
Botanical name:Xylosma congestum
This medium-sized, mounding evergreen shrub with lustrous yellow-green foliage produces new growth that is tinted rosy-red. It has a growth habit that is loose, graceful and spreading.
Common name:Chinese Wisteria
Botanical name:Wisteria sinensis
While the sinensis is similar to the floribunda, it bears more rounded, full clusters of strongly fragrant flowers which open more or less all at once. There are usually 13-15 leaflets per leaf, and they require full sun and average to little watering. It comes in many colors in the blues, whites and purples.-Monterey Bay Nursery
Designer: Karen Grobe | Simple Trellis Over Walkway |
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Incorporate compost 6" into your soil to retain water, reduce compaction, feed earthworms, and provide valuable nutrients to your plants.
Apply a 2-3 inch layer of mulch in planting beds to conserve water, suppress weeds, and protect the soil from compaction and erosion.
Attract, or buy beneficial insects such as ladybugs and lacewings to control pest outbreaks in your garden.