| What can I plant on my hilsside to help with soil erosion, don't require alot of water and look great! |
| Native plants are probably the best choices in terms of drought resistance and low maintenance. you can mix and match to make a good slope planting. Arctostaphylos edmundsii (Carmel Sur' manzanita) is a flat evergreen shrub(arches to 3 inches high in middle), with light gray-green leaves. Artemisia california (California sagebrush) is an evergray shrub, three to four foot high. Baccharis pil. 'Pigeon Point' grows into a one foot tall by twelve foot wide dark-green groundcover. Ceanothus griseus horizontialis is an evergreen shrub that commonly grows two or three feet tall and ten feet wide. Ceanothus thyrsiflorus repens is a prostrate Ceanothus with lots of attractive sky blue flowers. Salvia sonomensis A creeping flat perennial sage that can spread to 10' across. Its flowers are blue-violet from May to June, appearing in a 6"spike above gray-green leaves that lie on the ground 1" or so high. Hope these suggestions help. |
