An example of how plants are bread to fit into the trucks to be delivered blooming to the "big box" stores is the columbine: Columbine should be 3" tall with multiple blooms not 5"
Don't use wood chips in compost it sucks the nutrients out of the compost.
For clay soil, dig 1 foot down and add 1/2 compost, plus every year or two add lava rock to keep aeration.
Annie's uses grape seed compost, put in 3x a year, 1 inch, at least spring & mid summer, especially in containers ( fish emulsion or liquid seaweed are also good).
Ceanthis - cut back in Fall, and don't feed,
buy in fall, verbascum, columbine & hollyhock
plant poppies in Jan
Ca Native in Feb
fast blooming annuals in spring (feb/march) stock
if you have rust - pull leaves, use baking soda/ mixture and cut back in winter
leaf miners live in dry soil, if you have them add compost
plants specifics:
Cuphea 'Sunset' - blooms 12 months out of year in Bay area,
Capsicum Pubescens - "tree pepper" - 5'x6' peppers are good and hot
Eupatorium Sordidum (formerly Ageratum corymbosum)
Compost water half day sun 3.5' x 4' 12 months of blooms in bay area lives a long time with compost, 50-60 flowers purple leaved velvety shrub.
Alcea taurica - 4'x 5' tall, blooms long time, lives forever,
Echium gentianoides - Self sows, not cold hardy, blooms sp-fall, blue flowers, some compost, 4'x4', drought tolerant w/ drainage
Gnidia polystachya - 5'x5' drought tolerant, likes heat, cut it in winter, lots of flowers, 3' tall, cerise magenta red,
salvia pulchella x involucrata - starts blooming in early summer through winter, 4or5' wide hummingbirds Love it, trim in winter, frost tolerant, cut salvias back in fall
Salvia sclarea 'Piemot' - not a woody salvia sun 3'-4' tall, purple rose and lavendar flowers - spring (late) - through summer, drought tolerant, self-sows
Euphorbia Lambii - can takes a good amount of clay gophers don't like them, small shruby tree, lives forever
alcea ficifolia 'Black" - rust resistant, 5' tall w 10 stems blooms first year
silene asterias gets better each year deciduous from bulgaria, blooms late spring through summer. magenta bloom with turquoise pollen
Aquilegia yabeana - live a long time and bloom a lot
Aquilegia Crysantha ' flora pleno' - native to CO. and so cal, 3' tall most blooms
or Aquilegia cerulia can cut back and get second blooms in one year also fragrant
Selinum wallichianum 3'x3' leafy fearny leaves all year mid summer umbrels lives forever great backgorund plant that showy flowers look good against- sun part sun, relative of cherval
Clianthus puniceus - pea family, fast growing likes compost almost extinct in new zealand5' in ground evergreen branches looks like tree fern, likes compost & water blooms in spring, and a little at other times.
Plants on the hand out that we ran out of time to talk about:
petromarulea pinata
Aloe Tomrntosa
Dianthus Superbus
Salvia Macrophylla 'Upright'
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