Contemporary Garden
Water guzzling lawn!
Artist's rendering of a contemporary style
Your Contemporary Garden is ideal to complement an Eichler or other modern-feeling home, and may be a good foil for art. It features plants that have architectural presence.
Don’t forget add-ons such as a flagstone path or boulders.
Plants will be chosen from the following list:
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Botanical Name |
Common Name |
Notes |
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Tall plants (screening) |
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Prunus illicifolia |
Hollyleaf Cherry |
Attracts birds |
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Medium plants |
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Arctostaphylos ‘Howard |
Manzanita |
Pink flowers, winter |
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Ceanothus ‘Skylark’ |
California Lilac |
Blue flowers, spring |
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Juncus patens |
Rush |
Architectural |
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Mahonia aquifolium |
Oregon Grape |
Yellow flowers |
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Muhlenbergia rigens |
Deer Grass |
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Phormium ‘Platt’s Black’ |
Flax |
non-native |
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Rhamnus californica ‘Eve |
Coffeeberry |
Attracts birds |
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Low plants |
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Armeria maritima |
Sea Thrift |
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Baccharis pilularis ‘Twin |
Coyote Bush (low) |
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Carex divulsa |
Berkeley Sedge |
non-native |
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Ceanothus ‘Yankee Point’ |
California Lilac |
Blue flowers, spring |
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Epilobium ‘Select Mattole’ |
California Fuchsia |
Red flowers, fall |
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Eriogonum umbellatum ‘Shasta |
Sulfur Buckwheat |
Yellow flowers, summer |
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Festuca idahoensis |
Fescue |
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Leymus ‘Canyon Prince’ |
Wildrye |
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Rosmarinus ‘Huntington’ or |
Groundcover Rosmary |
non-native |
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Salvia sonomensis or ‘Bees |
Groundcover Sage |
Blue flowers |
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Suggested Trees (optional add-ons) |
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Lyonothmnus var asplenifolius |
Santa Cruz Island Ironwood |
Pyramidal tree |
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Laurus nobilis ‘Saratoga’ |
Sweet Bay |
non-native |
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Prunus cerasifera ‘Krauter |
Purple Leaf Plum |
non-native |
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Alternates designer may consider |
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Cistus salvifolius prostratus |
Rockrose |
non-native |
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Convolvulus mauritanicus |
Morning Glory |
non-native |
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Arctostaphylos ‘Dr Hurd’ |
Manzanita |
Red bark |
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Cercis occidentalis |
Western Redbud |
Pink flowers |
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Succulents |
various |
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Siskyou Blue Fescue