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Yellow Wave Flax
Sweet Pea Shrub
Incense Cedar
Yellow Wave Flax

Common name:Yellow Wave Flax
Botanical name:Phormium 'Yellow Wave'

This evergreen perennial is 3' high with clumping yellow/green variegation and weeping leaves.

Sweet Pea Shrub

Common name:Sweet Pea Shrub
Botanical name:Polygala x dalmaisiana

This evergreen shrub grows to a height of 5'. Its leaves are blue-green, and the flowers produced are pea-like, with a purplish-pink color.

Incense Cedar

Common name:Incense Cedar
Botanical name:Calocedrus decurrens

The Cedar is an attractive, stiff, narrow evergreen tree which has a columnar growing pattern and maintains a central leader. The foliage is aromatic, dark green and needle-like, while the coarse bark has an attractive cinnamon red-brown coloring. The cedar retains its color in winter and under good cultural conditons, will maintain its foliage to the ground. It grows slowly to about 30' tall and 8'-12' wide. Brown cones are on the tree most of the year, attracting birds for the seeds.

Designer: Dan Berger LandPlan

Hillside Patio
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Photographer: GardenSoft

Soils and Compost:

Practice grass-cycling by leaving short grass clippings on lawns after mowing, so that nutrients and organic matter are returned to the soil.

Integrated Pest Management:

Attract, or buy beneficial insects such as ladybugs and lacewings to control pest outbreaks in your garden.