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Wild Natives Run Rampant in the Garden! Native Plants That Is

May 12, 2015 by Donna Martinez

By Donna Martinez

 

That’s right – we have wild natives all around our garden!  Wildflowers and native plants that is.

When you are at Abalone Bay  enjoy a discovery walk among our plants. We are so pleased that Scott Graf of Floriferous Landscaping in Sea Ranch designed and installed our courtyard using native plants. The use of native plantings follows the Sea Ranch philosophy of being one with our environment and living lightly on the land. The Sea Ranch home owners association  states ornamental fences, gates, and railings, doors, ornate plant containers, “garden sculpture,” permanent flagpoles, and other decorative elements are not permitted if visible from outside the house or private exterior spaces. 

“ At The Sea Ranch we have developed a community based in wild nature and sustained by its beauty. We have an important responsibility here.

What do we bring to this environment and how do we alter it? I feel myself a custodian rather than an owner of it. . . . I feel I owe constant vigilance and care for its poetic and spiritual survival. I hope those who follow me feel the same.”

—Lawrence Halprin, Landscape Architect
The Sea Ranch . . . Diary of an Idea, 2003 

The use of native plants becomes even more critical given the prolonged drought facing all of California. Unique to The Sea Ranch is the mix of special native seeds combined by Larner Seed Company. 

Photos used in this post come from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted. Click on the photo to learn more about each specie.  Following below are further resources for California Native Plants and plants best suited for The Sea Ranch.

Abalone Bay’s Wildflowers and Native Plants

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Native plants are used in Abalone Bay’s Courtyard designed by Scott Graf of Floriferous Landscaping, Inc.

 

Below are the plants you can walk among while staying at Abalone Bay. They are first listed with their botanical name, followed  by their common name. Can you spot them in our garden?

Wildflowers and Native Plants Found outside our fence:

native plant
Ceanothus Dark Star/California Lilac
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Garrya elliptica /coast silk-tassel
native plant
Myrica californica / California Bayberry, California Wax Myrtle

 

Wildflowers and Native Plants found in the Courtyard

Native Plants -Tree:

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Arbutus ‘marina’/Madrone

 

Native Plants- Shrubs:

Native plant
Arctostaphylos emerald carpet / manzanita
native plants
Gloriosus ‘AnchorBay’ Photo from Native Retrieval Nursery: http://www.nativerevival.com/
Ceanothus Dark Star/California Lilac Photo from California Nursery: http://www.calfloranursery.com/
Narive plant
Mahonia aquifolium /Oregon-grape
Native plants
Rhamnus californica, now reclassified as Frangula californica/ California coffeeberry or California Buckhorn
native plants
ibes sanguineum /flowering currant or red-flowering currant
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Rhododendron
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Vaccinium ovatum / evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry and California huckleberry.

 

Native Plants – Ferns and Grasses

Calamagrostis nutkaensis/ Pacific reed grass Photo from www.landscaperesource.com
Native plants
Festuca glauca /blue fescue
Leymus condensatus ‘canyon prince’/ Canyon Prince Wild Rye. Photo from www.landscaperesource.com
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Polystichum munitum /western sword fern
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Woodwardia fimbriata,/ giant chain fern,

 

Flowering Perennials

native plant
Asarum caudatum /western wild ginger, or long-tailed wild ginger
native plant
Armeria maritima/ sea pink
Achillea millefolium paprika /Yarrow
Erigeron glaucus ‘cape sebastian’ /Beach aster
Iris douglasiana /pacific coast iris
native plants
Mimulus aurantiacus / the sticky monkey-flower
native plants
Oxalis oregana /redwood sorrel

 

Resources for The Sea Ranch California Native Plants

California Native Plant Society: CNPS

Sea Ranch Garden’s Most Successful Plants

The Sea Ranch Landscape: A Rare North Coast Tour

Chapters 8 & 9 – The Sea Ranch Association (pdf)

Sea Ranch Garden’s Most Successful Plants

 

 

 

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