California Native Plant Garden Photos

Garden Gallery

Discover what’s possible with California native plants. Explore our gallery for ideas to bring your landscape to life!

Chaparral gardens

Chaparral gardens are a great choice when you need low-water plants that thrive sunny, in steep, dry, hot, sloped dry areas. Select plants that do well in shallow, well-drained, rocky soil.

Parkway gardening

Gardening in small and high-traffic spaces can be challenging! Choose tough, drought-adapted, and locally-appropriate shrubs and groundcovers for these spaces. These parkway gardens offer inspiration to areas with heavy traffic and tough soil.

Aromatic and colorful pollinator gardens

Play with sages, monkeyflower, buckwheat, yarrow, mints, and many other California native plants to bring bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and more to your garden. These are just some of the colorful, vibrant, aromatic plants to choose from to add variety to your space!

Goodbye lawn, hello garden!

Transform any lawn into a native habitat garden with plenty of color and year-round interest. These gardens require significantly less water, maintenance, and inputs than lawns, while bringing habitat and beauty all year long!

Gardening under oaks

Oak trees are an iconic and distinctive part of California’s beautiful landscape. Because summer water can kill oaks, people often wonder what to grow under them. See a few of our favorites that thrive under magnificent oaks.

Coastal scrub gardens

Coastal scrub is dominated by showy, garden-worthy plants, such as sages, sagebrushes, and buckwheats -- all of which make for attractive and resilient gardens.

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