Common name:Radiation Orange Lantana
Botanical name:Lantana 'Radiation'
This shrub will grow 3'-6' tall and has small, dark green leaves with orange and red flowers that are in constant bloom all year.
Common name:Summer Lobelia
Botanical name:Lobelia erinus
This short ground cover has small green leaves with blue or red flowers that bloom in the summer and fall.
Common name:Sweet Alyssum
Botanical name:Lobularia maritima
Lobularia maritima is an annual. It is a low branching, trailing plant to 1' tall, with narrow or lance-shaped leaves .5"-2" long. There are tiny, four-petaled, white flowers crowded in clusters.
Common name:Pride Of Madeira
Botanical name:Echium candicans
Mature specimens of this evergreen shrub can grow to a size of 6'-8' tall and 8'-10' wide. In the spring, spikes of rosy-violet to blue-purple flowers appear. It should receive sun to part shade, with little or no summer watering when established. This plant can be severely damaged by frost below 25 degrees F. -Monterey Bay Nursery
Designer: Susan and Pat Price | Price Garden Raised Veggie Planter |
Photographer: GardenSoft |
Physical weed control, including mulching, or hand removal protects the watershed from harmful chemicals.
Apply as little fertilizer as possible.
If you use fertilizer make sure it stays on the landscape, and carefully water it in so there is NO runoff.
Develop healthy soil for plants that are vigorous and naturally pest-resistant.