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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Gardening for Your Health


There are many good reasons to garden.  Gardening makes campuses and neighborhoods more pleasing to the eye.  It also can provide food and homes for creatures large and small.  But gardens can also be important for our health.  For more see: http://mother-natures-backyard.blogspot.com/2018/01/.   

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Friday, March 17, 2017

Native Plant Sale - End of Season Sale




 
When:     Friday 3/24  - 11:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

               Saturday 3/25 - 9:00 a.m. – noon

 
   Where: Biology Dept. Greenhouse

                 (behind NSM building; http://nativeplantscsudh.blogspot.com/p/map.html )

 

   What:  CA native plants suitable for home

               gardens (trees, shrubs, flowers)

 

    Prices: $2.50 - $10.00 donation/plant (a deal!)

Proceeds support native plant propagation/restoration

                   on campus

 

Cash/checks only, please

 
 



Plant List –  CSUDH Native Plant Greenhouse – March 24-25, 2017

CSUDH-Project SOUND Propagation Lab

New offerings in green

 

#
Common Name
Scientific Name
Notes/More information
1 gallon shrubs/trees and woody vines - $7.00 - $10.00 
1
Marsh baccharis
Baccharis douglasii
Garden uses: rain gardens, swales
Habitat: many insects, butterflies, birds
2
Coyote bush
Baccharis pilularis
Garden uses: green background, hedge
Habitat: many insects, butterflies, birds
1
Mule fat
Baccharis salicifolia
Garden uses: green background, hedge
Habitat: many insects, butterflies, birds
12
CA bush sunflower
Encelia californica
Garden uses: bright flowers winter/spring
Habitat: many insects, butterflies, birds
 
8
*Rabbitbush
Ericameria nauseosa
Garden uses: yellow flowers summer/fall; fluffy seeds
Habitat: many insects, butterflies, birds
2
Heartleaf keckiella
Keckiella cordifolia 
Garden uses: orange flowers; shady vine
Habitat: hummingbirds, butterflies, birds
5
S. Island mallow
Lavatera assurgentiflora
Garden uses: lg. magenta flowers; large shrub; edible
Habitat: hummingbirds, butterflies, birds
5
Longleaf lupine
Lupinus longifolius
Garden uses: pale lavender, sweet-scented flowers
Habitat: large bees, butterflies, ground foraging birds
2
Catalina cherry
Prunus ilicifolia
Garden uses: shade tree, hedge/screen, edible fruits
Habitat: many insects, birds
2
Coast live oak
Quercus agrifolia
Garden uses: large landscape tree
Habitat: many insects, birds
2
*Gambel oak
Quercus gambelii
Garden uses: large shrub/small tree; winter deciduous
Habitat: pollinators, insects, many birds
5
Blue elderberry
Sambucus nigra cerulea
Garden uses: shade tree, edible fruits
Habitat: many birds, insects
 
6
Wild grape
Vitis girdiana
Garden uses: on fences, arbors; as groundcover
Habitat: fruit-eating birds
1 gallon perennials/sub-shrubs - $7.00
4
Dune (Seacliff) buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
Garden uses: mid-sized shrub; fall seed color
Habitat: many insects, butterflies (El Segundo Blue), birds
 
1
Narrowleaf bedstraw
Galium angustifolium
Garden uses: mid-bed greenery; medicinal
Habitat: insect pollinators, butterflies, birds
 
2
California Bee plant
Scrophularia californica
Garden uses: unique flowers/attractive foliage
Habitat: native bees, birds
3
Shrubby butterweed
Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii
Garden uses: yellow flowers summer/fall; fluffy seeds
Habitat: pollinators, butterflies
1
Hybrid Salvia
 
?? possibly Salvia apiana x A. mellifera
1 gallon herbaceous groundcovers - $7.00
3
Yarrow
Achillea millefolia
Garden uses: white flowers/attractive foliage; medicinal; can be mowed; spreads
Habitat: beneficial insects, birds
 
3
Yerba mansa
Anemopsis californica
Garden uses: white flowers/attractive foliage; fall leaf color; edible & medicinal; spreads
 
1
Mugwort
Artemisia douglasiana
Garden uses: attractive foliage; medicinal; spreads
Habitat: beneficial insects, birds
2
Salty susan
Jaumea carnosa
Garden uses: rain gardens/swales; containers
Habitat: pollinators, butterflies
1
Common lippia/ fogfruit
Phyla nodiflora
Garden uses: small groundcover or container plant; adorable flowers
Habitat: Buckeye, Hairstreak butterflies
1
CA wood mint
Stachys bullata
Garden uses: shady places; showy pink flowers
Habitat: hummingbirds, butterflies
 
12
* Pacific aster
Symphyotrichum chilense
(Aster chilensis)
Garden uses: groundcover; fall blooms (purple/yellow)
Habitat: many insect pollinators, butterflies;
1 gallon perennial bulbs and succulents - $7.00
4
*Shaw’s agave
Agave shawii
Garden uses: accent plant; edible, medicinal, useful; dramatic plant year-round
4
*Douglas’ iris
Iris douglasii
Garden uses: flower garden (part-shade)
Habitat:  insects, butterflies, birds
8
Blue-eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
Garden uses: small accent plant in ground or container
Habitat: seed-eating birds
4
* Banana yucca
Yucca bacata
Garden uses: accent plant; edible, medicinal, useful; very showy white flowers (spring)
Habitat: insects & fruit-eating birds
1 gallon grasses/sedges/rushes/cattails - $7.00
5
*Dune sedge
Carex pansa
Garden uses: lawn substitute
Habitat:  birds
4
Clustered field sedge
Carex praegracilis
Garden uses: lawn substitute; rain gardens & swales
Habitat:  birds
 
8
*Showy sedge
Carex spectabilis
Garden uses: rain garden/swale; around ponds
Habitat:  birds
8
Common spikerush
Eleocharis macrostachya
Garden uses: lawn substitute; rain gardens & swales
Habitat:  birds
4
Common scouring rush
Equisetum hyamale
Garden uses: around ponds; accent in planters, containers
Habitat:  birds
4
Leopold’s rush
Juncus acutus leopoldii
Garden uses: around ponds; accent in planters, containers
Habitat:  birds
6
* Lamp rush
Juncus effusis
Garden uses: around ponds; accent in planters, containers
Habitat:  birds
4
Mexican rush
Juncus mexicanus
Garden uses: rain garden/swale; near ponds; containers
Habitat: birds
6
California rush
Juncus patens
Garden uses: accent plant; groundcover; containers
Habitat: birds
6
Basket Rush
Juncus textilis
Garden uses: rain garden/swale; around ponds; basketry
Habitat: birds
8
Creeping wildrye
Leymus triticoides
Garden uses: lawn substitute; swales
Habitat:  birds, Skipper butterflies
6
Small Cattail
Typha angustifolia
Garden uses: rain garden/swale; around ponds; edible
Habitat: insects, birds
Small pots: trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs - $4.00
4
Coastal (Dune; Seacliff) buckwheat
Eriogonum parvifolium
 
See above
12
*Rabbitbush
Ericameria nauseosa
 
See above
Small pots: perennials /biennials/annuals - $4.00
10
Yarrow
Achillea millefolia
See above
10
Cobwebby thistle
Cirsium occidentale
Garden uses: bright pink thistle flowers,  spring/summer
Habitat: many insects, butterflies, hummingbirds, birds
2
* Rosy Buckwheat
Eriogonum grande var. rubescens
Garden uses: mid-sized shrub; bright pink flowers, fall seed color; good along walkways, containers
Habitat: many pollinators, butterflies. birds
 
9
Coastal gumplant
Grindelia hirsutula
Garden uses: yellow daisies spring/summer
Habitat: many insects, butterflies, birds
3
Telegraph plant
Heterotheca grandiflora
Garden uses: yellow flowers summer/fall; medicinal
Habitat: pollinators, butterflies, finches
 
1
*Douglas’ iris
Iris douglasii
See above
25+
Common seep monkeyflower
Mimulus guttatus
Garden uses: yellow flowers spring; edible/medicinal
Habitat: pollinators, butterflies
6
Hooker’s Primrose
Oenothera elata hookeri
Garden uses: yellow flowers spring/summer; edible/ medicinal
Habitat: moths, butterflies, hummingbirds, finches & other seed-eating birds
4
Fog fruit/ Lippia
Phyla nodiflora
See above
4
Blue-eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
See above
14
* Banana yucca
Yucca bacata
See above


* CA native, but not native to South Bay

** Not a CA native plant, but native to the Southwestern U.S.