What's your garden inspiration?

These plant communities naturally occur in Bay Area ecoregions.

Each community is a collection of plants that grow together in the wild.

Meadow

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Meadow

If you like lots of color and have sunny space, having a native meadow is the way to go. Showing off the most color in the spring, perennial grasses offer year-round interest without much water.

Chaparral

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Chaparral

Great for sunnier, steeper, hotter parts of your garden. Featuring the most fragrant and drought-tolerant plants such as manzanitas, coyote mint, sages, and phacelias, this is a showy and hardy garden style.

Woodland

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Woodland

If you have an existing tree, or space for one, this is the style for you. Oaks, buckeyes or other trees offer a variety of diversity with dappled light for shade-happy plants like iris, currants, and grasses.

Coastal Shrub

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Coastal Shrub

Found along coastal, cooler areas, coastal shrub is characterized by green-silvery leaves of coastal sage and buckwheat with blooms in the summer but year-round beauty.

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