Common name: Coast Redwood
Botanical name: Sequoia sempervirens

This conifer is one of the longest living plants in the world and tallest also, one measuring 321' tall! Typically, this tree will quickly grow 100' tall and 30' wide in commercial cultivation. Leaves look like needles, are evergreen and dark green colored. Flowers are inconspicuous. Brown cones appear in fall and winter. Bark is reddish brown, furrowed, and attractive. This tree does well in full sun in cool summer climates but needs afternoon shade in warmer areas. It needs well draining, acidic, moist soil. Great shade tree. Used as bonsai specimens. Can take coastal conditions of fog and marine layer but cannot be planted at beach. Foliage and bark are aromatic.

Common name: Leather Leaf Sedge
Botanical name: Carex buchananii

This orange-bronze ornamental grass/reed is 2-3' tall and 1-2' wide and does best in full sun to part shade. It needs moist soil so plant near a water feature or pond.

Common name: Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat
Botanical name: Eriogonum arborescens

Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat is a loosely branched shrub quickly growing 2'-5' high and wide. It has evergreen, thin, gray green foliage. Creamy pink flowers appear in summer and fade to reddish brown by fall. It is a CA native, drought tolerant, attracts butterflies and beneficial insects. This plant does well in coastal areas, needing almost no summer water when established. In warm, inland valleys, it will appreciate afternoon shade and occasional watering when established. Deer resistant. Tolerates clay soil but does better with well draining soil. Great for erosion control.

Common name: Manzanita Emerald Carpet
Botanical name: Arctostaphylos 'Emerald Carpet'

The 'Emerald Carpet' is an evergreen groundcover that grows to 1' tall by 6'-8' wide. It is favored by many landscapers as the manzanita of choice for inland situations. It has dark green leaves and exhibits compact growth. This variety is relatively tolerant of adverse soil conditions.

Common name: Wall Germander
Botanical name: Teucrium x lucidrys

This small shrub reaches 1' tall and 2' wide, with small, shiny, dark green, aromatic leaves on woody stems can be sheared and shaped. Lovely, reddish purple or white flowers appear between the upper leaves during summer. It can be used as a low hedge plant in herbal knot gardens or has a ground cover. To encourage branching, it should be pruned in the spring. It prefers full sun and well draining soil. It does not tolerate wet soil. It is drought tolerant once it's established.