| I am helping a friend in California to design a landscape. I am unfamiliar with the specific plants that can be safely used in his area Belmont (Bay area), California. I would like to know if you can help me in this area. Thank you, Richard Bates |
| There are literally hundreds of suitable plants for the marine climate of San Francisco. An excellent resource is Sunset Western Garden Book (ISBN#0-376-03875-6). Here's a partial list: Abies concolor ~Colorado, White Fir Acacia mearnsii ~Black Wattle Acacia longifolia ~Golden Wattle Acacia verticillata ~Prickly Moses Acer ginnala ~Amur Maple Acer macrophyllum ~Big Leaf Maple Acer palmatum ~Japanese Maple Arbutus menziesii ~Madrone Berberis ~Barberry Brugmansia ~Angel Trumpet Buxus ~Boxwood Callicarpa japonica ~Beauty-berry Calycanthus occidentalis ~Western Spice Bush Carpenteria californica ~Bush Anemone Celtis ~Hackberry Ceratonia siliqua ~Carob Cercis occidentalis ~California Red Bud Chaenomeles ~Flowering Quince Cotinus ~Smoke Tree Cryptomeria ~Japanese cerdar Cupaniopsis anacardioides ~Carrotwood Cupressocyparis leylandii ~Leyland Cypress Cupressus arizonica ~Arizona Cypress Elaeagnus angustifolia ~Russian Olive Erica ~Heath Eucalyptus camaldulensis ~Red Gum Eucalyptus cinerea ~Dollar-leaf Gum Eucalyptus grandis ~Rose Gum Fraxinus ~Ash Geijera parviflora ~Australian Willow Gingko biloba ~Maidenhair Tree Gleditsia triacanthos ~Locust Gymnocladus dioica ~Kentucky Coffee Tree Hibiscus syriacus ~Rose of Sharon Ilex ~Holly Jacaranda Lagerstroemia amabilis ~Crape Myrtle Liquidambar ~Sweet Gum Liriodendron ~Tulip Tree Lonicera ~Honeysuckle Magnolia grandiflora ~Southern Magnolia Mahonia Malus ~Apple, Crabapple Maytenus boaria ~Mayten Tree Melaleuca styphelioides ~Paperbark Metasequoia ~Dawn Redwood Myrica ~Bayberry Nandina ~Heavenly Bamboo Persea ~Avocado Phellodendron ~Cork Tree Phlomis ~Jerusaleam Sage Pinus (most species) ~Pinus Pistacia chinensis ~Chinese Pistache Pittosporum rhombifolium ~Queensland Pittosporum Prunus ~Cherry Quercus ilex ~Holly Oak Quercus lobata ~Valley Oak, California Oak Rhus ~Sumac Sambucus canadensis ~Sweet Elder Sapium ~Chinese Tallow Sequoia sempervirens ~Coast Redwood Sophora japonica ~Japanese Pagoda Tree Ulmus parvifolia ~Evergreen Chinese Elm Vitex ~Chaste Tree Wisteria Abelia grandiflora ~Glossy Abelia Acer negundo ~Boxelder Albizia ~Silk tree Berberis darwinii ~Darwin Barberry Berberis thunbergii ~Japanese Barberry Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ~Lawson Cypress Crataegus phaenopyrum ~Washington Hawthorn Dodonea ~Hopseed Bush Elaeagnus commutata ~Silverberry Eucalyptus polyanthemos Eucalyptus pulchella Euonymus japonica ~Japanese Euonymus Grevillea robusta ~Silk Oak Hebe Iochroma cyaneum ~Purple Tobacco Jacaranda acutifolia Koelreuteria paniculata ~Golden Raintree Lagerstroemia indica ~Crape Myrtle Ligustrum japonicum ~Waxleaf Privet Melaleuca linariifolia ~Flax-Leaf Paperbark Myrtus communis ~Myrtle Nerium oleander ~Oleander Picea abies ~Norway Spruce Pittosporum tobira Pyracantha coccinea ~Firethorn Pyracantha crenulata ~Firethorn Quercus chysolepis ~Canyon Live Oak Sequoiadendron giganteum ~Giant Redwood Spirea prunifolia ~Bridal Wreath Wisteria macrostachya ~Wisteria Acacia floribunda ~Sydey Wattle Arbutis unedo ~Strawberry Tree Betula pendula ~European White Birch Buddleia ~Butterflybush Callistemon viminalis ~Bottle-brush Carpinus ~Hornbeam Caryopteris ~Blue Mist Casuarina stricta ~She Oak Ceanothus ~Wild Lilac Cercis canadensis ~Eastern Redbud Cistus ~Rockrose Coprosma repens ~Mirror Shrub Cotoneaster Cytisus ~Broom Deutzia ~Sky Flower Erica herbacea ~Mediterranean Heather Escallonia Eucalyptus (most species) ~Gum Euphorbia ~Poinsettia Fagus ~European Beech Fremontodendron ~Flannel Bush Hebe odora ~Boxleaf Veronica Heteromeles arbutifolia ~Toyon Hydrangea Laburnum ~Golden Chain Tree Melaleuca leucadendron ~Cajeput Tree Myrtus communis 'Variegata' ~Variegated Myrtle Picea pungens ~Colorado Blue Spruce Prunus laurocerasus ~English Laurel Pyracantha angustifolia ~Firethorn Pyracantha crenulata ~Firethorn Quercus dumosa ~Scrub Oak Quercus virginiana ~Southern Live Oak Rhus ~Sumac Schinus ~Pepper Tree Syringa vulgaris ~Lilac Viburnum Weigela Hope this list is helpful! |
