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Good Plants for Oriental/Rock Gardens in the S.F. Bay Area
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Qualities: low-growing, compact, interesting leaf textures and colors,
perennial, drought-tolerant.

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SHRUBS (larger, for background):
Azaleas, Rhodos
Daphne
Broom	Genista	
Hebe	Hebe cupressoides'Nana'
Ceanothus
Akebia	for shade
Mexican Bush Sage	Salvia leucantha

SHRUBLETS:
Scotch Heather	Calluna vulgaris	dk green, sm pink fls	fine, tight
Heathers	Daboeci
Heaths	Erica
Cypress	Chamaecyparis (some)		fine
Juniper	Juniperus		fine
	Leptospermum scoparium 'PinkCascade'

Cushion Bush	Calocephalus brownii	silvery white		sm, sculptural
Rockrose	Cistus		
Sunrose	Helianthemum nummularium
St. Johnswort	Hypericum coris
Dwarf Jasmine	Jasminum parkeri
Myoporum	Myoporum debile
Penstemon	Penstemon rupicola
Cinquefoil	Potentilla cinerea		some gray-green
Germander	Teucrium		silver-white
Mondo Grass	Ophiopogon japonicus		grassy

Herbs:
Rosemary
Thyme
Lavender

Grasses;
Orn. Grasses

Interest:
Acanthus
Potato Vine	Solanum jasminoides	purple fls
Creeping Wire Vine	Muehlenbeckia
Lily-of-the-Nile	Agapanthus
Big Blue Lily Turf	Liriope muscari

PERENNIALS:
Mats:
	Acaena	gray-green		loose mat
Woolly Yarrow	Achillea tomentosa	dk grn, yellow fls	 spreading mat
Alyssum			(overused)
Rockcress	Arabis
Snow-in-Summer	Cerastium tomentosum	silvery white	spreading mat
Gazania (clumping)		fls	rough mat
(Baby's Breath)	Gypsophila repens
	Herniaria glabra	green	carpet
Candytuft	Iberis sempervirens
	Oxalis (adenophylla, hirta)		small carpet
(Lantana	bright purple fls
Lavender Cotton	Santolina chamaecyparissus	gray-green
Lamb's Ears	Stachys byzantina	gray-green	woolly

Spots:
Carpet Bugle	Ajuga (genevensis)
Sea Pink	Armeria
Pinks,Swt Wlm	Dianthus	gray-green ++, fls
(Poinsettia-family)	Euphorbia myrsinites	chartreuse
Alum Root,Coral Bells	Heuchera	fls
Evening Primrose	Oenothera missourensis	pink fls

Shrublets:
Aubretia	Aubretia deltoidea
Bellflower	Campanula
	Erigeron
Cranesbill	Erodium chamaedryoides
Wallflower	Erysimum kotschyanum		mats
Gentian	Gentiana
Cranesbill	Geranium
	Lithodora diffusa	brilliant blue fls
	Mazus reptans
Crete Dittany	Origanum dictamnus
Moss Pink	Phlox subulata	sheets of pink
	Saxifraga
Dusty Miller	Senecio	gray-green

Succulents:
(Jade Plant	Crassula lactea			succulent)
	Echeveria		succulents
Felt Plant	Kalanchoe beharensis		succulent
Primrose	Primula (most)
Stonecrop	Sedum (many)		succulent
(Ice Plants)

Bulbs!

Nurseries:
Adachi	11939 San Pablo	El Cerrito
East Bay	2332 San Pablo	Berkeley	ask for Susan
Succulents	Shattuck across from Flints
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Hopseed	Dodonea viscosa
BreathofHeaven	Coleonema 
Flax	Phormium tenax		(dwarf variety!)	

This list was done for Sandy in Oct 93.
Used much of the "rock gardens" list of plants from Sunset Western Gdn Book.