Ten native plants for a California Garden

Here are ten native plants that are easy to grow in most gardens.
They’ll need to be treated like native plants, not Petunias, so read up on each one before you plant. (Link below each image for more information on these native plants)

A mixture of Eriogonum parvifolium, Cliff Buckwheat and Baccharis Pigeon Pt growing on a coastal bluff.Because of the wind, the native plants are flat. - grid24_6

Baccharis pilularis pilularis, Pigeon Point.
This native plant can virtually replace a lawn!!

Sisyrinchium bellum, Blue-Eyed Grass is a iris like native plant. - grid24_12

Blue-Eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium bellum is a native mini-iris.

Ceanothus Skylark is really green with blue flowers and will grow throughout most of California. Skylark makes a nice little native hedge or border planting. - grid24_12

Ceanothus, California Lilacs, particularly Skylark, Concha and Yankee Point.
Coffeeberry, Rhamnus californica, with berries. Native plants attract native birds. - grid24_12

Coffeeberry, Rhamnus californica has berries for the native birds.

Muhlenbergia rigens, Deer Grass, is shown here with flowering stalks on the edge of a garden path. This native grass has all sorts of uses. - grid24_6

Deer Grass, Muhlenbergia rigens is a large native grass.
Harmony manzanita is a selection of the Arctostaphylos densiflora. This is a truly California native plant. - grid24_12

Manzanitas are California native plants! For easy ones, look at Harmony, Sentinel or Howard McMinn
Monkey Flower, Diplacus, Mimulus is a beautiful native plant. - grid24_12

Monkey flowers, particularly Diplacus puniceus, Diplacus longiflorus and Diplacus aurantiacus.
Get the monkey off your back and into your garden!

Penstemon Margarita BOP pushed up against a rock. Native plants can be very pretty. - grid24_12

Penstemon Margarita BOP.
Native plants can be pretty and some of them can tolerate all sorts of conditions.

A Swallowtail Butterfly on a Salvia Pozo Blue. California native plants attract California native wildlife to your garden. - grid24_12

Salvias, particularly Pozo Blue, Salvia Pt. Sal, Hummingbird Sage and Gracias.
Zauschneria californica Bert's Bluff was native on a coastal bluff but does very well inland and is hardy to about 0F, -15C. A great native plant fro your garden. In a school garden it starts flowers about when school starts. - grid24_12

Zauschneria  ‘Bert’s Bluff’. grows about a foot tall and two feet wide.
Gray foliage and hot reddish orange flowers that are favorites of the hummingbirds and butterflies.
California fuchsias are very showy and reliable native plants.