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Overview

This plan creates a rich, shade-loving garden with vibrant flowers that will bloom throughout the spring. Featuring multiple edible and fragrant plant species, this design will bring life and color to heavily shaded parts of your garden!

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Diagram of a full shade garden with various plant circles labeled with species and quantities, and an illustration of the garden with arrows pointing to the same plants, including Blue Wild Rye, Golden Yarrow, Yerba Santa, Hummingbird Sage, Mugwort, Chaparral Currant, and Fuchsiaflower Gooseberry.

Make it your own

Does our color palette or plant selection not match your preferences? Swap out plants in the plan for other natives. Check out the substitutions below!

  • Chaparral currant (Ribes malvaceum)
    California wildrose (Rosa californica)

  • Fuchsiaflowered gooseberry (Ribes speciosum)
    California wildrose (Rosa californica)

  • California wildrose (Rosa californica)
    Heartleaf penstemon (Keckiella cordifolia)
    Hummingbird sage (Salvia spathacea)

  • Hummingbird sage (Salvia spathacea)
    California hedgenettle (Stachys bullata)
    Common yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

  • Golden yarrow (Eriophyllum confertiflorum)
    Hummingbird sage (Salvia spathacea)
    Blue wildrye (Elymus glaucus)
    California hedgenettle (Stachys bullata)

  • Golden yarrow (Eriophyllum confertiflorum)
    Common yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
    California fuchsia (Epilobium canum)
    Yerba buena (Clinopodium douglasii)
    Blue wildrye (Elymus glaucus)
    California hedgenettle (Stachys bullata)

  • Hummingbird sage (Salvia spathacea)
    Yerba Buena (Clinopodium douglasii)
    California hedgenettle (Stachys bullata)
    Creeping rye (Elymus triticoides)

Plant Care tips

Fall: prune any dead material in early Fall, plant and seed in late Fall

Winter: plant, supplemental watering every few weeks if there is no rain, weed

Spring: supplemental watering every few weeks if there is no rain, but reduce frequency, weed

Summer: let the plants go dormant, reduce water for new plants and stop watering completely for established plants, weed

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