Common name:Red Flowering Currant
Botanical name:Ribes sanguineum
Upright, multibranched deciduous shrub with medium green maple shaped leaves. The rose-red flowers appear in clusters in mid-winter offering winter color for the garden, and food for hummingbirds. Can tolerate some shade on the coast, and needs shade in
Common name:Purple Leaf Loropetalum
Botanical name:Loropetalum chinese purple cvs.
Red Fringe Flower is a 6-12' shrub with arching branches and light green and reddish leaves .
Common name:Winter Daphne
Botanical name:Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata'
This shrub will reach about 6' tall and has small, glossy, greenish white leaves with pink flowers that bloom in winter and spring.
Designer: Michelle Dervis
Photographer: Michelle Dervis
Practice grass-cycling by leaving short grass clippings on lawns after mowing, so that nutrients and organic matter are returned to the soil.
Modify your controller each season. In the rainy season turn it off.
Attract, or buy beneficial insects such as ladybugs and lacewings to control pest outbreaks in your garden.
